Valerie Richardson at the Washington Times offers a piece on an FBI report on “de-policing.”
An unclassified FBI study on
last year’s cop-killing spree found officers are “de-policing” amid concerns
that anti-police defiance fueled in part by movements like Black Lives Matter
has become the “new norm.”
“Departments — and individual
officers — have increasingly made the decision to stop engaging in proactive
policing,” said the report by the FBI Office of Partner Engagement obtained by
The Washington Times.
The report, “Assailant Study
— Mindsets and Behaviors,” said that the social-justice movement sparked by the
2014 death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of an officer in Ferguson,
Missouri, “made it socially acceptable to challenge and discredit the actions
of law enforcement.”
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FBI spokesman Matthew Bertron
said the study was written in April.
“Nearly every police official
interviewed agreed that for the first time, law enforcement not only felt that
their national political leaders [publicly] stood against them, but also that
the politicians’ words and actions signified that disrespect to law enforcement
was acceptable in the aftermath of the Brown shooting,” the study said.
As a result, “Law enforcement
officials believe that defiance and hostility displayed by assailants toward
law enforcement appears to be the new norm.”
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