"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Siege Mentality
Charles Johnson on the illusion of 'policeman's risk' as a tool to manufacture consent to their tyranny.
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"2008 and 2009, ... were the safest years to be a police officer in over 110 years."
"...it’s never been safer to be a cop in America than it has been over the past 2 years. Yet boss cops, spokespeople for the government police, and articles written by cops and for cops, constantly repeat the demonstrably false claims that criminals are more violent than ever before, and that government cops somehow face more danger on their patrols now than they ever have before. That this is a complete lie would be obvious to anyone who had spent 15 minutes perusing the police’s own institutions and resources for honoring their "fallen comrades."
"The interesting question, then, is what kind of purpose the constant refrain of this unfact from government police serves —..."