The aftermath of the killings of five police officers in Dallas by a self-avowed black racist who targeted white people spawned a debate about whether there now exists a war on police officers.   A recent poll found that 58% of Americans believe that there is a war on the police.  True to form, writers at the Washington Post declared that anyone who claims there is such a war going on is the one who is dangerous.  Like all dedicated liberals, they rejected the poll results, which they declared, were not the true feelings of the public, but merely the result of conservative fear-mongering.   While liberals were still warning us not to talk about wars on the police, another radical assassinated 3 more cops in Baton Rouge.  It had no effect on the leftists.  You see, if you disagree with liberal orthodoxy you’re either stupid or evil.  Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clark, an African-American gentleman, is neither evil nor stupid, and he’s made up his mind.  Sheriff Clark says it’s open season on the police right now, and that President Obama is to blame for breathing life into what the Sheriff describes as the ugly Black Lives Matters movement.  Community organizer, i.e., agitator, Obama stirred that pot once again in his recent speech in Dallas.  He was there supposedly to honor the memory of the five dead officers.  Obama started out on the right note.  “For the moment you put on that uniform, you have answered a call that at any moment, even in the briefest interaction, may put your life in harm’s way” … “Our entire way of life in America depends on the rule of law.”  Then his community agitator roots pulled Obama back to his main theme – police officers are racists.  Obama blamed the fact that citizens are able to get guns for the killings in Dallas.  He said, “We also know that centuries of racial discrimination – of slavery, and subjugation, and Jim Crow – they didn’t simply vanish with the end of lawful segregation.”  (Right, any more than a dozen new gun laws won’t stop criminals from misusing guns any better than the old laws did.)  He added, “If you’re black you’re more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested, more likely to get longer sentences, more likely to get the death penalty for the same crime.”  The sentence and death penalty claims are plainly false.  Obama is living in the distant past.  One of his claims was true.  If you’re black, you are more likely to be pulled over, but not due to police racism.  Our police officers are spread very thin.  Black citizens face rates of murder, rape and robbery that are up to 10 times higher than those faced by white citizens.  Fully 93% of all black murder victims are killed by black criminals.  On top of that, 42% of all cop killers are black, even though blacks are only about 13% of the nation’s population.  Law enforcement puts more officers in the areas that have the most crime.  Logically, the area with the most cops will have the most police stops.  Now, if you are a law-abiding African-American citizen who needlessly experiences a stop, you have a perfect right to be angry.  It’s not fair that you are being put upon, but that doesn’t mean the cop is racist.  When I was a prosecutor, I had the privilege of working with members of the New Jersey State Police.  During the time that the State Police were under scrutiny for racial profiling in car stops, one of the detectives, an African-American trooper, who was was one of the finest undercover narcotics investigators I ever knew, came to me upset.  He said, “Frank, they’re saying the troopers are racist, but I did the same thing.  Does that make me a racist?”  Of course it didn’t, because the State Troopers, like all good cops knew they weren’t black or white, all of them were blue.  All of them were dedicated to protecting the public, and all of them faced the same risks doing so.  When you run out of the building yelling, “He’s got a gun,” the police are running toward the gun.  That’s something this President simply doesn’t understand, or won’t accept.  In his Dallas speech, Obama marveled that,  “In the aftermath of the shooting, we’ve seen Mayor Rawlings and Chief Brown, a white man and a black man with different backgrounds, working not just to restore order and support a shaken city ..,”  As though the idea of two public officials of different races working together is such a novelty.  Where has Obama been these past 50 years?  But the most insulting part of Obama’s speech was yet to come, he actually said, “It is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.”  Don’t they have libraries in Chicago?  And if they do, do they lend out guns?  One more time, the prevalence of illegal guns is not due to a shortage of gun laws.  Criminals do not obey the law.  Machine guns have been illegal since 1934, and there are more automatic weapons on the street today than Al Capone ever dreamed of having.  Obama knows this.  He just can’t pass up an opportunity to blame the police to advance his extremist agenda.

So is there a war on cops or not?  The unfortunate answer is, it’s not simply a war on the police, it’s much worse than that.  It’s a civil war.  When a suspect is killed by a police officer  (I should say, only a black suspect, as half of the suspects killed by police are white, and nobody questions those killings), there is, and must be an investigation and a grand jury hearing to determine whether the officer broke the law by using deadly force.  Now understand, most of these incidents occur in urban settings where many investigators, prosecutors, judges, grand jurors and petit jurors themselves are members of minority groups.  If only the police were under attack, then, if the grand jury or the trial judge or jury found no wrongdoing by the officer, the protestors would be satisfied that justice was done.  But the agitators are never satisfied, because this is not simply about the police.  This is a war on all legal authority, being waged by anarchists, like the Occupy Wall Street scum.  And Il Duce Obama has chosen the side of the anarchists and the cop killers.  I don’t know what they hope to achieve, but I guarantee you do not want to live in a world without law enforcement.