Volume 1

Intelligence Brief

Table of Contents 2 Remembering the Fallen 9 Portrait of a Hero Officers Lost in 2016 A Family Remembers the Man They Loved 3 Letter from LECF 13 Beware of the SPLC Introducing the Intelligence Brief What the SPLC is Really About 5 Making 18 A War of Lies Exposing the Lies of Black Lives Matter A Review of The War On Cops Remembering Fallen Officers From 2016

Police Officer Thomas W. Cottrell, Jr. Deputy Sheriff David Francis Michel, Jr. Correctional Officer Kenneth Bettis

Police Officer Douglas Scott Barney, II. Sergeant David Kyle Elahi Sergeant Kenneth Steil

Sergeant Jason Goodding Deputy Sheriff Paul Clark Sergeant Steve Owen

Deputy Sheriff Derek Geer Senior Corporal Lorne Bradley Ahrens Police Officer Blake Curtis Snyder

Senior Deputy Mark F. Logsdon Police Officer Michael Leslie Krol Police Officer Lesley Zerebny

Senior Deputy Patrick B. Dailey Sergeant Michael Joseph Smith Police Officer Jose Gilbert Vega

Major Gregory E. Barney Police Officer Patricio E. Zamarripa Deputy Sheriff Jack Hopkins

Police Officer Jason Moszer Police Officer Brent Alan Thompson Sergeant Allen Brandt

Corporal Nate Carrigan Security Supervisor Joseph P. Zangaro Police Officer James Brockmeyer

Officer Ashley Marie Guindon Police Officer Marco Antonio Zarate Police Officer Myron Jarrett

Police Officer David Stefan Hofer Corrections Officer Mari Johnson Deputy Sheriff Dan Glaze

Deputy Sheriff John Robert Kotfila, Jr. Corporal Montrell Lyle Jackson Police Officer Justin Scott Martin

Deputy Sheriff Carl A. Koontz Deputy Sheriff Bradford Allen Garafola Sergeant Anthony David Beminio

Police Officer III Allen Lee Jacobs Police Officer Matthew Lane Gerald Sergeant Paul Tuozzolo

Police Officer Susan Louise Farrell Correctional Officer Sergeant Patrick Michael Sondron Kristopher D. Moules Police Officer Carlos Puente-Morales Police Officer Cody Brotherson Captain Robert David Melton Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer Police Officer Darrin Reed Police Officer Jonathan M. DeGuzman Police Officer Steven Michael Smith Deputy Sheriff Daryl Smallwood Corporal Bill Cooper Investigator Anthony “TJ” Freeman Police Officer Scott Leslie Bashioum Police Officer Jose Ismael Chavez Detective Brad D. Lancaster Deputy Sheriff Dennis Wallace Police Officer Timothy Kevin Smith Police Officer David Van Glasser Detective Benjamin Edward Marconi Police Officer Kenneth Ray Moats Police Officer Ronald Tarentino, Jr. Police Officer Police Officer Clint Corvinus Reginald Jacob “Jake” Gutierrez Police Officer Verdell Smith, Sr Court Officer Ronald Eugene Kienzle Police Officer Natasha Maria Hunter Sergeant Collin James Rose Master Deputy Sheriff Brandon Collins Police Officer Endy Nddiobong Ekpanya Police Officer Nicholas Ryan Smarr K9 Officer Timothy James Brackeen Sergeant Stacey Allen Baumgartner Corrections Officer Lisa Mauldin

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alm Beach County, Florida, Police Officer Jay St- for his views, often from alien has shown bravery, strength of character, and the very people he was P a commitment to the truth by standing up to a false trying to help. This criti- narrative that is having a detrimental effect on police offi- cism included personal cers, black communities, and American society in general. threats against him on Stalien, a former police officer who grew up his Facebook post. Of- in Brooklyn, said he began his career because, growing ficer Stalien believes up seeing black-on-black crime as the norm, “I wanted to that Black Lives Matter help my community and stop watching the blood of African is largely responsible for Americans spilled on the street at the hands of a fellow the anti-police attitude that has manifested itself in American black man. I became a cop because black lives in my com- cities, and he says that many police officers now go to work munity, along with ALL lives, mattered to me, and wanted every day in fear of their own personal safety. to help stop the bloodshed.” Despite the repercussions he has faced for expressing his Officer Stalien made the observation on his blog and in views (and telling the truth), Jay Stalien continues to do his a Facebook post that the Black Lives Matter movement job because he believes that he is making a difference, and ignores the thousands of blacks killed every year by other that being a police officer is for a greater good. The Law blacks but only focuses on those killed by (white) police Enforcement Charitable Foundation recognizes Officer Jay officers. He wrote, “Their deaths are unnoticed, accepted Stalien for having the courage to stand up for the truth and as the ‘norm,’ and swept underneath the rug by the very expose lies, even at the risk of personal attacks. n people who claim and post ‘black lives matter.’” If you’d like to nominate someone from your department for this rec- Stalien, as could be expected, took a great deal of criticism ognition, submit your nomination at LECF-Inc.org.

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4 LECF • September, 2016 Black Lives Matter

Making Black Lives Matter

As a black young man growing up in Brooklyn, New York, watching the in- crease of black-on-black crime in his community waste the life of one young black man after another, Stalien decided to become a police officer and do what he could to help make black lives better. As he wrote in his viral post:

I wanted to help my community and stop watching the blood of African Americans spilled on the street at the hands of a fellow black man. I be- came a cop because black lives in my community, along with ALL lives, mattered to me, and wanted to help stop the bloodshed. AP Images Facts don’t matter: On July 8, 2016, BLM supporters gathered in front of the White House to As a police officer, Stalien said he came protest the police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge — ignoring the fact that Sterling was to realize that illegally armed and tried to use his gun on police officers. Black Lives do not matter to most The Black Lives Matter movement has blamed a litany of black people. Only the lives that make the national news matter to death and violence on police nationwide. Their accusations them. Only the lives that are taken are false, and their “solutions” cause increased carnage. at the hands of cops or white people, matter. The other thousands of lives n the two years since Ferguson, Black offer any defense; the mere accusation of lost, the other black souls that I along Lives Matter (BLM) has gone from a “systemic racism” is at once both an in- with every cop, have seen taken at the I hashtag on social media to a force to dictment and a conviction. hands of other blacks, do not matter. be reckoned with. But the basic premise While BLM insists that the phrase “Black Their deaths are unnoticed, accepted behind the Black Lives Matter movement Lives Matter” includes the silent and im- as the “norm,” and swept underneath and its agenda — encapsulated by the slo- plied “Too,” as in “Black Lives Matter, the rug by the very people who claim gan “Hands up, don’t shoot!” — is a lie. Too,” the reality is that it actually includes and post “black lives matter.” This premise is that racist white police the silent and implied “Some,” as in “Some officers who systematically and routinely Black Lives Matter.” Crime statistics show Part of his realization was based on the target black men for violence and murder that the narrative of BLM is predicated on fact that the very people who march in are the single greatest threat to black men a lie that is designed to hide a simple truth. protests shouting that “black lives matter” — and that black police officers are sell- That truth, if the numbers are allowed to when a police officer of any color shoots outs for going along with the systemic rac- speak for themselves, is that black men a black man — even when that black man ism of police departments across the na- are themselves the single greatest threat to was armed and committing a violent crime tion. The false narrative has been used to black men. Before this writer is accused of — will flatly refuse to help police solve condemn the police and to justify riots and racism, I did not say that. A black man did. the murder of black men killed by other mayhem. And so as BLM has grown, the That black man is a police officer in Palm black men. war on police has grown, as well. Beach County, Florida, who writes under In an effort to understand what was By casting the issue as a matter of rac- the name of Jay Stalien. In a viral Facebook going on, Stalien began researching the ism, the people and organizations respon- post, Stalien made the salient point that claims of BLM in light of the evidence. sible for the war on police have made it crime statistics tell a very different story His research eventually led him to a study almost impossible for police groups to than that which is put forth by BLM. of crime statistics by University of Toledo

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criminologist Dr. Richard R. Johnson in ignores the fact that the vast majority of the deaths of dangerous criminals to fo- which Professor Johnson examined the those 112 black men killed by police, on ment violence and destruction. Recent most recent data available from the FBI average, each year were violent criminals, examples include Alton Sterling in Baton and Centers for Disease Control (CDC). with many of them threatening the life and Rouge, Sylville Smith in , and The findings of that study unravel the safety of the officers who were attempting Keith Scott in Charlotte. In the first two threads of the BLM narrative and reveal to arrest them for their crimes. cases, black men were armed, were in the that black men kill other black men at a By blaming the deaths of black men on process of committing crimes, refused to rate 40 times greater than do police offi- racism, BLM has not only dodged the re- obey lawful orders from police, and at- cers. sponsibility of doing something to make tempted to use their weapons on police. That study shows, as Michele Hickford black lives better, it has actually aided and The only difference in the third case may wrote for the website of Allen West: abetted the deaths of nearly 5,000 black be that Scott has not been shown to have men a year at the hands of other black actually pointed his weapon at the offi- On average, 4,472 black men were men. And by targeting police, BLM is cers. In all of these cases, police officers killed by other black men annually endangering the one group of men and were left no choice but to use lethal force between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, women who routinely put their own lives against the criminals, and then BLM used 2012, according to the FBI’s Supple- on the line to prove that “black lives mat- the deaths of these dangerous criminals mentary Homicide Reports. Using ter.” It takes little imagination to predict as a pretext for rioting and looting while FBI and CDC statistics, Professor the outcome in these crime-ravaged, lethal shouting “black lives matter!” Johnson calculates that 112 black neighborhoods if the police who lay their BLM is employing a common tactic of men, on average, suffered both justi- lives on the line to protect them continue subversives: divide and conquer. By draw- fied and unjustified police-involved to be hamstrung. In the absence of police, ing the battle lines along racial lines, the deaths annually during this period. those inner-city ghettos would quickly go “leaders” (read “agitators”) of the move- from bad to worse. ment have largely succeeded in blurring So BLM is protesting the average yearly And yet while police officers of every the fact that this issue is not about race; it death toll of 112 black men at the hands color risk their safety — and their lives — is about culture. of police while completely ignoring the to take dangerous criminals off the streets The Cambridge English Dictionary de- nearly 5,000 black men killed each year in the inner city, BLM misses no opportu- fines “culture” as “the way of life, espe- by other black men as a direct result of nity to attack police and defend the very cially the general customs and beliefs, of the collapse of black culture in the inner criminals who have terrorized black lives. a particular group of people at a particular cities of America. Of course, BLM also Time and again BLM has seized upon time.” So culture is about behavior, cus- toms, and beliefs, not color. A person born into a particular culture may choose to live by the norms and mores of a higher or lower culture. One can “switch” cultures; one cannot “switch” races. Race and cul- ture — while often seen as related — are separate things. While all races — like all individuals — are created equal, the same is not true of cultures. Any examination of different cultures will reveal — to the honest observer — that some cultures are better than oth- ers. Some cultures have built civilization while others have destroyed civilization. Some cultures have fostered a sense of society, while others have torn down that sense of society. Some cultures elevate a sense of duty to others over selfish pleasures, while others posit that Self is greater than Other. Some cultures consider

AP Images the mental and spiritual to be more wor- Negative consequence: As the war on police — which is part of a larger war on society — thy than the merely physical and sensual. continues to claim the lives of officers of all colors, the rhetoric of BLM endangers the one group Some cultures value human life, while of men and women who routinely put their own lives on the line to prove that “black lives matter.” others do not.

6 LECF • September, 2016 to be an improvement: (1) A dispropor- tionate number of blacks in America with college degrees today are either immi- grants from Africa or the West Indies or their children; (2) In the 25 years between 1940 and 1965, the percentage of blacks in America with college degrees had risen from less than a quarter that of whites to almost half that of whites. If that trend had continued, it is reasonable to conclude that blacks born in America would likely have graduation levels equal to or greater than whites born in America. Instead, the numbers — when immigrants and their children are removed from the equation (and not allowed to artificially skew the numbers) — show that the gap is wider Take the pledge? The advocates programs that are the very antithesis of than it was before all of the government those that would help black lives. As the group’s website notes, demands include the legalization of “programs” for black Americans. Since drugs and prostitution and reparations for those who have been jailed for these crimes. education is a major key to prosperity, a lack of it is a path to poverty. Of course BLM ignores all of this be- crime and lawlessness in the cities of So what caused the reversal of the rise cause it does not fit the narrative that rac- America, is the decline of the intact black of a strong, family-oriented, educated, ism is at the root of the problems in black family — particularly in the inner cities. black culture? Williams aptly lays the America. If BLM wanted to address the After the dark days of slavery — and even blame at the feet of the welfare state, writ- root problems in the black communities, during the dark days of Jim Crow — black ing in an article entitled “Black People it would have to ask some hard ques- culture, marked by intact families and a Duped,” “The black family managed to tions such as, “Why is crime — includ- strong work ethic, was the backbone of survive several centuries of slavery and ing and especially violent crime — higher black communities. As George Mason generations of the harshest racism and Jim in black neighborhoods?” and “Why do University economist and best-selling au- Crow, to ultimately become destroyed by young black men have such low rates of thor Walter E. Williams has said, “There is the welfare state.” graduating high school — not to mention no question, though it’s not acknowledged And while blacks are in positions of au- college?” and “Why is an intact black fam- enough, that black Americans have made thority and power in cities all across Amer- ily almost an anomaly in the inner city?” greater gains, over some of the highest ica, those cities are unfortunately controlled There are only three possible answers to hurdles and in a very short span of time, and held down by the same liberal politics these — and similar — questions: (1) The than any other racial group in mankind’s that are also to blame for the crime and pov- white supremacist claim that black people history.” erty many blacks know as their only reality. are genetically inferior to white people, (2) But now, the modern disintegration of As Williams wrote recently: the politically correct claim that black peo- the black family has reversed most — if ple are being held down by the white man, not all — of those “greater gains.” Among the nation’s most dangerous and (3) the recognition that it has nothing For instance, between the 1920s and the cities are Detroit, , St. Louis, to do with color and everything to do with mid 1960s, the rate of blacks in America Baltimore, Memphis, Milwaukee, culture. It is a fact that there are millions of with at least four years of college had Birmingham, Newark, Cleveland hard-working, educated black people who risen from a paltry one-tenth of one per- and . These once-thriv- have prospered and made something of cent to 4.7 percent, according to the Jour- ing cities are in steep decline. What their lives. Among them are millionaires nal of Blacks in Higher Education and these cities have in common is that and businesses owners and doctors and the U.S. Census Bureau. That means that they have large black populations. lawyers and congressmen and senators in 1965, the college graduation levels of Also, they have been run by Demo- and governors and even a president. These blacks was nearly half that of whites. And crats for nearly a half-century, with facts remove the illusion of the legitimacy while in 2008 the percentage of blacks in blacks having significant political of answers (1) and (2), leaving the fact that America with college degrees had risen to power. Other characteristics these the culprit is culture, not color. about two-thirds that of whites, there are cities share are poorly performing The main culprit in the decline of cul- a couple of important facts that need to be and unsafe schools, poor-quality city ture, which has led to the new wave of considered before those numbers appear services, and declining populations. www.LECF-Inc.org 7 Black Lives Matter

Williams is not the only black man with the courage to say that. In the wake of the riots in his city, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke wrote in an editorial piece for The Hill:

Here are the facts: Milwaukee is run by progressive Democrats. Their decades-long Democrat regime has done nothing to reduce these urban pathologies, in fact, their strategies have exacerbated the situation by expanding the welfare state. That things have not improved and in fact worsened in the Amer- ican ghetto after eight years of Barack Obama is remarkable only to those who have not been paying attention to our nation’s cities. AP Images Peaceful protests? BLM “protests” in cities such as Charlotte, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Clarke went on to say that the blacks in Ferguson have resulted in deaths, destruction, and mass looting. The police — who are blamed Milwaukee who have drunk deeply at — are the ones who have to restore order in the midst of these riots. the poisoned well of BLM “are the ones lied to, exploited by and ultimately ma- cently formed the Black-Led Movement reparations, including free college and a nipulated by the Democrats who claim to Fund with a six-year commitment to a higher minimum wage, with no require- care.” He added, “They are victims of the pooled donor campaign in the amount of ments for the one receiving the “wage” to Left, but they are not without blame. It’s $100,000,000. perform any work in order to receive it. time for them to remember their own hu- The organizations under the BLM um- One is left to wonder what the free col- manity, their own dignity, and to fight for brella could use those millions to actu- lege education is for if people will get that return to the American Dream that ally improve black lives by hosting edu- money for nothing. MBL also demands the Left would withhold from them.” cation and job training programs, as well the legalization (they prefer the term “de- Rather than address the root problems as drug and alcohol abuse prevention criminalization”) of drugs and prostitu- in black communities, and help them programs and programs to encourage tion. Their demands go so far as to make “return to the American Dream,” BLM abstinence before marriage and fidelity such policies retroactive and to include has capitalized on and exacerbated those within marriage to help break the cycle additional reparations for those who have problems. And it appears the reason BLM of poverty that always accompanies low been jailed for these crimes. And with a has done this is simple: money. As has graduation rates, high drug and alcohol wink and a nod to Marx and Engels, MBL been widely reported as a result of leaked dependency rates, and high illegitimacy demands “economic justice,” to include e-mails and documents, BLM has been rates in any society. If black lives mat- “collective ownership, not merely ac- heavily funded by George Soros and tered to these “leaders” in the BLM cess” of businesses in black neighbor- other deep-pocketed leftists. One leaked “movement,” they would seek ways to hoods. report shows Soros funding BLM to the make black lives better. Instead they use The Marxist nature of these and other tune of $650,000 with the goal of seiz- black lives as cannon fodder in their war demands of the organizations under the ing “a unique opportunity to accelerate on police — which is part of a larger war BLM umbrella are a clear indicator of the the dismantling of structural inequality on society. real intent of BLM. The deep-pocketed generated and maintained by local law Take for instance just one of the many funding by the likes of Soros, the Center enforcement.” But that $650,000 is just subversive organizations that will receive for American Progress, the Ford Founda- the beginning. The Washington Times part of that $100,000,000 from the Ford tion, and Borealis Philanthropy show that recently reported that between the Soros Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy. BLM is the means, not the end. BLM is Open Society Foundations and the Cen- The Movement for Black Lives (MBL) little more than a tool of social revolu- ter for American Progress, BLM has been advocates for programs that are the very tionaries who have waged a war on police the beneficiary of $33,000,000. And just antithesis of those that would help black as part of a broader war on the society to top matters off, the Ford Founda- lives. MBL’s website (www.policy.m4bl. that police officers have sworn to serve tion and Borealis Philanthropy have re- org/platform) lists their demands for and protect. n

8 LECF • September, 2016 In The Line Of Duty

Portrait of a Hero

cial media posts go from viral to stale. But the family members live — day in and day out — with holes in their lives, holes that used to be filled by the man or woman who was that fallen officer. Time may heal the wounds, but those holes remain. At 1:40 p.m. on March 7, 2013, Vir- ginia State Police Master Trooper Junius Alvin Walker reached his final end of watch doing what many officers do every day: assisting a motorist with a disabled vehicle. The difference is that this par- ticular motorist — a 28-year-old, out- of-work barber with a history of mental illness and who was high on marijuana at the time — would later tell investiga- tors that he had been hearing the voice of God and that the voice had told him to kill Walker. Within seconds of Walker pulling alongside the disabled vehicle on the side of I85 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, AP Images Russell Brown — who was alone in the Trooper Shooting: At 1:40 p.m. on March 7, 2013, Virginia State Police Master Trooper Junius car — raised a .308-caliber rifle and shot Alvin Walker reached his final end of watch when he was shot and killed by a 28-year-old, out-of- work barber with a history of mental illness and who was high on marijuana at the time. Walker. When Walker saw Brown raise the weapon, he attempted to get out of the way by pressing the gas pedal of his Virginia State Police Master Trooper Junius Alvin Walker cruiser, but the first round entered his was killed in the line of duty in 2013. Here, his family right arm and traveled through his body, piercing both lungs and coming to a stop talks about the man they knew and loved. in his liver. After Walker’s cruiser came to rest in the woods along the side of the very day in cities, towns, and all of them do so all of the time. highway, Brown approached the vehicle counties all across America, law- When an officer falls in the line of duty and fired three additional shots at close Eenforcement officers put on their — particularity when it is at the hands range. The medical report said any of the uniforms and check their weapons in of a criminal — the media reports on the shots would have been fatal. Walker died preparation for their tours of duty. Each details of his or her death for as long as at the scene. of them is aware of the dangers of their the story is considered “newsworthy.” Another Virginia state trooper came chosen profession and the fact that this If the officer was killed by a criminal, across the scene and saw Brown firing tour may be the end of their watch. Yet the last media coverage will usually be into the cruiser. He and Brown exchanged they still go to work and do their duty to of the trial. Then, the newspapers, radio gunfire, and then Brown ran into the protect and serve the communities where and television stations, and the Internet woods, discarding his clothes along the they and their families live. Most of them news media move on to other stories. The way. He was arrested a short time later by go home of the end of their tours, but not community more or less moves on. So- Dinwiddie County deputies, who found

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and small — Walker’s family misses the most, adding that he was “the center of our holidays” so “the holidays are really, really hard.” Walker was “a fantastic cook and could cook anything.” Liz said he would sometimes make a big pot of chili to take to the station, just to share with the other troopers on duty. Some of the hardest things to get used to are the “little” things that will never be the same again. “It’s not fun eating dinner for one,” she said, adding that — whether just day-to-day or holiday meals with the family at home — Walker’s place at the family table “is still there, empty.” His daughters miss those “little” things, too. Clarissa said, “I miss being able to have our talks, drink coffee to- gether, barbecue on the grill, play scrab- ble, watch football games, target practice in the back yard.” She added, “You name it. My dad was a family man and we al- ways spent a lot of time together.” Sorely missed: Junius Walker’s widow, Liz Walker, said it’s the moments — big and small — the Liz also said Walker was a man with family misses the most. “Him just being there made our days complete and now, there’s a big strong family ties and was a central part hole that will never be filled with him gone.” of his daughters’ lives. “Whenever they had a problem, and they called and they him hiding — naked — in a car at an auto nity. said, ‘Let me talk to dad,’ I knew it was salvage yard a half mile from the scene of Liz, who was married to Walker for 32 something serious,” Liz said, laughing at the shooting. years, spoke with us about her husband the fond memory of her husband in his The trial took more than three years and the ways her life and the lives of her role as father. Then she added, “Him just to complete and only finished in August daughters and grandchildren have been being there made our days complete and of this year. Brown was found guilty and changed by his being taken from them. now, there’s a big hole that will never be — thanks to a fairly recent Virginia law As she spoke, her memories painted a filled with him gone.” denying parole to felons — will spend the picture of a man who loved life and his Some things bring the pain of loss to rest of his life in prison. Walker’s family, family and gave of himself to his com- the surface like nothing else can. When as well as his friends and coworkers, will munity. Even when Liz’s voice and face Liz’s mother passed away last year, Liz spend the rest of their lives missing him. showed her sadness, her eyes were smil- did not have Walker to lean on, and she But Junius Walker, who was known to ing through the tears as she remembered said she felt that loss. Those who have family and friends as just “Walker,” has Walker. had the loving arms of a husband or wife left behind more than just sadness and Together, they had two daughters. to comfort them in the loss of a parent grief; he has left a legacy that impacts Walker also had a son, Derrick, from a can imagine how hard it would be to miss people who never even met him. previous marriage, who lives out of the that comfort. Perks Coffee Shop in historic Old country and was away when Walker was Liz said three years later, she still Towne Petersburg, Virginia, is a cute killed. Walker’s two daughters — Clar- sleeps in the same bed she shared with little brick storefront café offering good issa Owen, 35, and Vera Jordan, 32, are Walker. “And, I still sleep on the same coffee and even better conversation. It is married and have children of their own. side of the bed. His side is empty, and I owned by Walker’s widow, Liz Walker, Clarissa works as a nurse in a doctor’s still leave him room.” She laughed again who used some of the survivor benefits office and has a daughter, Chloe, who is at that. Even in her pain, Walker has left she received from his death to start the four. Vera works in a clerical position in her a place of joy in his memories. business. The shop is somewhat of a me- the home health industry and has a son, The grandchildren were all so young morial to his life. Liz says the coffee shop Jackson, who is almost four and a daugh- when Walker was killed that the only is mainly a way for her to stay busy and ter, Jaylen, who is almost five. memories they really have of him are sec- interact with the people in the commu- Liz told us it’s the moments — big ond-hand. Liz told us, “My grandbabies

10 LECF • September, 2016 are growing and they can’t see him. And treks in the snow; he talked about work- saved the life of another person that day he can’t see them grow up and experience ing wrecks all day. He offered me words by taking the place of that person. Junius their birthdays, their Christmases, and of encouragement, as he always did — Walker died doing what that uniform Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny. He’s told me to keep my head up and things stands for: protecting and serving. not there for any of that.” Clarissa said, would get better. We made plans to see As to the racial side of the equation, Liz “I hate that he’s not here to see Chloe and each other soon — hopefully the coming has some insight. As a white woman mar- my niece and nephew grow and become weekend.” Of course that weekend was ried to a black man, Liz has seen her share the intelligent, charismatic little people spent on funeral plans for her dad instead of animosity. Liz and Walker married in that they are.” She added, “They were of spending time with him. 1980, years before biracial marriages were all babies when my dad was killed. Their Liz realizes that there are some simi- as accepted as they are today. As the wife memories of their Papa come from the larities between her loss and the loss of a black state trooper, Liz has no kind stories we share with them.” Those sto- suffered by any other widow who may words for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) ries and the plethora of family pictures have lost her husband to an accident or a crowd and their war on police. “Yes, black — as good as they may be — are poor heart attack. But there are differences, as lives matter,” she said. “My husband was substitutes for knowing the man Walker well. “The similarities are that it happens black and his life mattered, too.” She was, but for his grandkids who will grow just as fast, it’s just as sudden, it’s just as added that many of her well-educated up without him, they will have to do. unexpected, and terrible,” she said, “It’s black friends do not buy into the rhetoric At least his wife and daughters have totally different in that my husband was of BLM. As a woman who spent 32 years those memories to keep alive. Clarissa intentionally shot. He was murdered.” married to a black man as part of an intact said, “Dad and I were very close, and And while neither race (Walker was family and who raised daughters who have we spoke to and saw each other often.” black and his killer was a biracial male intact families, she agrees with those who The last time she spoke to her dad was who identifies himself as black) nor say that racist cops are not at the root of the night before he was killed. She said, Walker’s uniform (Brown said he was the problems in black communities, but “I vividly remember the last time we going to kill whoever came along to help that the problem is instead the collapse talked. It was the evening before he was him) seem to have played any part in of black culture that has accompanied the killed. It had snowed that day, and dad Walker’s murder, the fact remains that by collapse of the intact black family in the called to check on me and see how my being the one to stop and offer help to a inner cities of America. day had been.” Clarissa had been work- disabled motorist that day, Walker was a Clarissa agrees, saying, “All lives mat- ing as a home health nurse, and she and marked man. And it is impossible to sepa- ter. My daddy’s life mattered, to me, my her dad compared stories about driving rate that from his job as a state trooper. family, and our community.” She went on in the snow all day. “We talked about our The reality is that Walker almost certainly to say, “When I hear people bashing the police I get so angry. My father put on his uniform every day, tirelessly, religiously, and with great pride. He was a true hero.” As to the supposed racial divide, Clarissa said, “The divide between ‘us’ and ‘them’ needs to stop before we are left with a lawless, defunct society.” Walker — who worked as a black man in the uniform of a Virginia state trooper — lived in the community he served. He was active in his church. He had neigh- bors and frequented businesses. He left behind a large family, including his wife, his children, his grandchildren, his 91-year-old mother, three brothers, three sisters, nieces, nephews, cousins, and a large extended family. None of those people will ever see him again, and — based on what this writer has heard of this man’s life — those people’s lives His memory lives on: Walker’s grandchildren were so young when he was killed that the only will always be the poorer for it. memories they will have of him is from pictures and stories. As good as those second-hand Rest in peace Trooper Walker, and God memories may be, they are a poor substitute for knowing the man Walker was. bless you for your service. n www.LECF-Inc.org 11 Consider an online private school that takes the Classical approach of homeschool, Judeo-Christian mindset of parochial school, live interaction with teachers and students across the globe, and freedom from national standards and government inf luence.

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While the Southern Poverty Law Center claims to support civil rights and oppose “hate,” it supports domestic terrorists and opposes mainstream values. AP Images f an organization praised a domestic Standing for civil rights? Politicians and others stand outside the Southern Poverty Law Center, terror leader backed by Fidel Castro, which promotes cop-killing terrorists as “highly respected” while demonizing those who disagree I whose terrorist group murdered po- with its views as haters, extremists, and more. lice officers, bombed multiple U.S. targets including the NYPD headquarters, and genuinely hateful and may even advocate fact that Ayers was the terrorist leader plotted mass murder of Americans, would violence. Others, though, are mainstream who co-founded the murderous Castro- you consider that organization a trustwor- pro-family Christian organizations with backed terrorist group Weather Under- thy source of information? How about an millions of members, sandwiched in be- ground. One of the terror organization’s organization that was cited in federal court tween the Nazis and KKK because they claims to fame was its 1981 murder of by a convicted domestic terrorist as his support traditional marriage a bit too vig- Waverly Brown, the first black police inspiration to kill employees of a Chris- orously for the SPLC’s taste. officer on the Nyack, New York, police tian pro-family group? Or a group that But how credible is the SPLC? For start- force, during an armed robbery. When the had repeatedly been caught lying, omit- ers, it is helpful to examine the SPLC’s ide- Weathermen and their allies bombed the ting crucial information, and dishonestly ology and the sources it recommends. Per- San Francisco Police Department Park demonizing its political opponents? Meet haps nothing shines as much light on this Station in 1970, they murdered SFPD the Southern Poverty Law Center, often than its ringing endorsement of domestic Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell. Another known simply as the SPLC. terrorist Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather nine officers were wounded in the blast. In various high-quality publications in- Underground. As part of one of its projects, Then the terrorists bombed Sergeant Mc- cluding its flagship Intelligence Report, ironically dubbed “Teaching Tolerance,” Donnell’s funeral. distributed to police departments and gov- the SPLC interviewed Ayers and described On June 9, 1970, the terror group ernment agencies across the country, the him as a “civil rights organizer, radical anti- bombed the headquarters of the New fantastically wealthy Alabama-based out- Vietnam War activist, teacher and author.” York City Police Department. In addi- fit presents itself as a neutral “civil-rights” It also claimed Ayers had developed “a rich tion to murdering and bombing police group looking out for law enforcement. Its vision of teaching that interweaves passion, officers, the Weathermen also bombed slick videos and the pages of its magazine responsibility and self-reflection.” Ayers is the Haymarket Police Memorial dedi- warn of endless “hate groups” lurking all described as somebody “fighting for social cated to the memory of brave Chicago over the country that supposedly threaten justice,” too. police casualties. When the memorial America and police officers in particular. What the glowing introduction and the was rebuilt, it was again blown up by the Of course, some of those groups, such as interview left out was far more important terrorist group. In a book written by one what’s left of the Ku Klux Klan and the than the information the SPLC chose to of his fellow terrorists, Ayers is quoted National Socialist (Nazi) movement, are include. Left unsaid, for example, is the as saying, “When a pig gets iced that’s a www.LECF-Inc.org 13 Southern Poverty Law Center

tive, Assata Shakur, hiding from the law in communist Cuba.

SPLC as Inspiration for Terror The hatred drummed up by the SPLC against groups it disagrees with on issues such as marriage has already led to serious consequences. On August 15, 2012, for ex- ample, would-be terrorist and mass murder- er Floyd Corkins walked into the lobby of the conservative-leaning Family Research Council (FRC) carrying a firearm and lots of ammunition. His plan was to massacre employees of the Christian pro-family group. And his inspiration was none other than the SPLC, Corkins later told the FBI. Indeed, in addition to inspiring Corkins’ AP Images hateful attempted terrorist attack by slan- Speaking against hate: Family Research Council President Tony Perkins speaks after an SPLC- dering a Christian organization, the SPLC inspired terrorist tried to massacre employees of the Christian pro-family group hated by the even produced a helpful “hate map” used SPLC for its views on marriage and homosexuality. by the domestic terrorist to locate his in- tended victims. Corkins was planning to good thing.” Ayers was, in short, a proud as saying in on Sep- target other victims of SPLC vitriol after terrorist and cop-killing enthusiast. tember 11, 2001. When he was asked massacring FRC employees and rubbing The communist terror group, supported whether he would plant bombs again, he Chik-fil-A sandwiches on their faces. It by the murderous Soviet puppet regime said: “I don’t want to discount the possi- was only the heroism of an unarmed se- in Havana, also bombed Capitol Hill, bility.” Indeed, he stated as much in his curity guard that day, who disarmed the the Pentagon, the State Department, and 2001 memoir about his days as a cop-kill- deranged SPLC-inspired attacker, that pre- other targets as retaliation for what were ing fugitive. “I can’t imagine entirely dis- vented a tragedy of massive proportions. perceived to be U.S. attacks on commu- missing the possibility,” Ayers says about The guard was wounded in the process. nism at home and overseas. Beyond the planting more bombs in the future. After practically every incident of vio- bombing spree, the Weathermen also had To the SPLC, this unrepentant, cop- lence that can in any conceivable way be dreams of interning and executing mil- bombing terrorist is a “highly respected exploited to demonize moderates, conser- lions of “counter-revolutionary” Ameri- figure” worthy of an extended inter- vatives, and Christians, the SPLC always cans after overthrowing the nation with view about his “rich vision of teaching rushes to put out statements to the media help from foreign dictatorships, according that interweaves passion, responsibility and law enforcement implying some link. to the late Larry Grathwohl, who infiltrat- and self-reflection.” By contrast, main- When a mentally disturbed Jared Lough- ed Ayers’ terror group for the FBI. stream Christian organizations such as the ner shot a congresswoman in Tucson, Ari- When SPLC critics later began to high- American Family Association, the Family zona, for instance, the SPLC immediately light the SPLC’s bizarre praise for this un- Research Council, Liberty Counsel, and sprang into action to paint him as a “right- repentant terrorist, the organization added others are labeled as “hate groups” along- wing” activist and member of the “Patriot” an explanatory “editor’s note” dismissing side the KKK and Nazis. Mainstream con- movement. In the real world, Loughner and downplaying the criticism of the “for- servative organizations, meanwhile, are was described by friends as a “left-wing mer anti-war activist.” Despite finally ac- dubbed “extremists” and “radical right” pothead.” The killer boasted on social knowledging the bombing and terrorism and painted as a danger. media that he read communist and social- and the fact that the charges were only What type of group celebrates a cop- ist propaganda of the type peddled by top dropped because of the evidence had al- killing terrorist as a “highly respected fig- SPLC leadership and its allies. Similar legedly been tainted, the SPLC went on to ure” and gives him a megaphone, but de- deception and fraud from the SPLC to de- praise the terrorist yet again as a “highly monizes pro-family and pro-police groups monize its ideological opponents, though, respected figure.” as “extremists” and “haters”? Only the has become a regular occurrence. What the SPLC did not say is that Ayers SPLC. The SPLC also supports the anti- By contrast, when FRC President Tony continues to celebrate his terrorism to this police “Black Lives Matter” movement Perkins responded to the domestic terror day. “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel (see page 5), which openly counts as its attack on the organization he leads, he was we didn’t do enough,” Ayers was quoted ideological inspiration a cop-killing fugi- much more measured. “Let me be clear

14 LECF • September, 2016 that Floyd Corkins was responsible for fir- ing the shot yesterday,” Perkins explained. “But Corkins was given a license to shoot an unarmed man by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations hate groups because they disagree with them on public policy.” He also called for the SPLC “to be held accountable for their reckless use of terminology that is leading to the in- timidation and what the FBI here has cat- egorized as an act of domestic terrorism.” Prominent Christian activist and attorney Matt Barber, writing in Townhall.com, was among those who outline concerns that the SPLC may have dark motivations. “Motive to kill? Fomented. Who to kill? Provided. Intelligence or propaganda? The SPLC’s so-called Intelligence Report is sent out to law- Where to kill? Pinpointed, with easy ac- enforcement and government agencies across the country, but experts say the misleading far-left cess to driving directions. The only thing propaganda puts lawmen and innocent citizens at risk. the SPLC did not do was purchase Corkins’ gun and drive him to the crime scene,” Bar- of SPLC propaganda: In an early 2016 cretly a member of the “radical right” until ber wrote. “Here’s why, to my own aghast piece appearing in its Intelligence Report, just recently? The SPLC did not say. bewilderment, I’m left with little choice but the SPLC purports to expose what it de- Despite claiming to be non-partisan, the to believe the SPLC may be intentionally scribed as the “anti-Indian movement.” SPLC now regularly blasts the Republican inciting anti-Christian violence.” The primary “anti-Indian activist” tar- Party for “radical right” and “extremist” Despite being warned repeatedly over geted by the SPLC’s propaganda is Elaine positions — basically disparaging any- many years that its extreme rhetoric lik- Willman, described by the SPLC as the thing with which it vehemently disagrees. ening mainstream Christian and conserva- “silver-haired matriarch of the movement.” The SPLC also regularly claims in its pub- tive organizations with practically defunct In the whole 1,500-plus word “intelli- lications that the “radical right” is “highly hate groups could result in bloodshed, the gence” report, however, the author fails to dangerous.” While exact numbers are hard SPLC has never apologized. Instead, the mention even once that this “anti-Indian” to pin down, by the SPLC’s own definitions SPLC stood its ground, labeling even leader is actually a Cherokee Indian. Her of the terms, tens of millions of Americans more mainstream Americans as haters mother and grandmother were even both could be classified as “radical right” based and extremists. Even liberal sources who registered tribal members. Her husband is on their religious or political views, and disagree with groups like the FRC, such also an American Indian, and is, in fact, therefore be described by the SPLC as as Washington Post columnist Dana Mil- a direct descendant of Sacajawea, one of “highly dangerous.” bank, have urged the SPLC to stop its America’s most famous Indians. In 2013, the SPLC was cited as the “absurd” listing of mainstream Christian How can a report purporting to unmask source of information for a presentation groups as hate organizations alongside an “anti-Indian movement” omit the fact that referred to evangelical Christians, neo-Nazis and Klansmen. that the chief anti-Indian is an Indian mar- Catholics, and Orthodox Jews as “reli- But the SPLC extremism continues. In- ried to an Indian? Unfortunately, such wild gious extremists” — on the same page as deed, it has gotten so bad that the Ameri- disinformation campaigns are par for the Islamic terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, can Family Association, a mainstream course at the SPLC, which has a long track the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas. pro-family group with millions of mem- record of deception — especially when it Those claims would make the overwhelm- bers across the country, has labeled the comes to briefing law enforcement. ing majority of Americans into “religious SPLC an “anti-Christian hate group.” The SPLC has gone so far as to brand extremists.” The same training program widely held views as extremism. For in- based on SPLC propaganda also identi- A Problem of Credibility stance, according to the SPLC, opposition fied the KKK as a “Christian” group. Ob- On top of demonizing peaceful activists to same-sex marriage is now a hallmark of viously, Christian and Jewish leaders were with whom it disagrees as violent haters what it calls the “radical right.” As recently outraged at being equated with al-Qaeda. who pose a threat to law enforcement and as a few years ago, however, even Obama The SPLC never apologized. national security, the SPLC also has a his- was still opposed to same-sex marriage, The SPLC’s unwarranted smears tory of publishing wildly misleading infor- declaring marriage to be a sacred union be- against large swaths of American society mation. Consider a representative example tween a man and a woman. Was Obama se- have begun to be noticed by the national www.LECF-Inc.org 15 Southern Poverty Law Center

media. In early 2014, for example, SPLC Showing their true colors: “Senior Fellow” Mark Potok was ridi- Unrepentant domestic culed on national television after claim- terrorist Bill Ayers, ing, citing “the best data,” that “now more whose Castro-backed than half of white Americans have these terror group bombed anti-black attitudes.” In the real world, as and murdered police and plotted to murder millions, a CNN contributor pointed out, racism has is promoted by the SPLC’s been on the decline for decades, as shown website as a “highly on every objective measure. respected figure” and “activist.” Many of the Liberal-Left Reject SPLC As the SPLC has increasingly become contemptuous for what critics call its big- otry, lies, and hate, it is worth noting that the criticism against it comes from across the political spectrum. Indeed, it is im- portant to highlight that some of the most potent criticism of the extreme group has actually come from its would-be ideologi- cal allies on the Left. One prominent left-wing critic of the went on to repent, giving away his fortune ousness’ on the basis of mere assumed val- SPLC has been civil rights attorney and to the poor and founding the well-known ues, opinions and beliefs, they put entirely Southern Center for Human Rights Presi- charity Habitat for Humanity to truly serve innocent citizens at risk from law enforce- dent Stephen Bright. Citing investigations those in need. ment error and misconduct,” said Wilcox in and even a federal judge, Bright lambasted Some SPLC critics on the Left have his book The Watchdogs: A Close Look at SPLC founder Morris Dees as a “con man argued that the group’s misleading propa- Anti-Racist ‘Watchdog’ Groups. and fraud” who takes advantage of “naive, ganda actually puts law-enforcement of- The SPLC also has many intimate ties well-meaning people,” including the poor, ficers and innocent citizens at risk — and to the extreme Left and even to actual self- for his own benefit. Other critics on the not just because the group promotes terror- described communists with a history of Left have been equally brutal in their as- ist leaders and cop-killers on its websites. radicalism, fomenting anti-police hatred sessments of the SPLC’s leader. Far-left One left-leaning expert who has warned of and violence, and more. Even members of Nation magazine’s JoAnn Wypijewski, for the danger of the SPLC’s dishonest tactics its board of directors have a broad array example, referred to him as a “millionaire is Laird Wilcox, a longtime ACLU mem- of contacts and associations with hateful huckster.” Journalist Alexander Cock- ber nationally renowned for his studies of extremists dedicated to the overthrow of burn called him the “arch-salesman of fringe political and subversive movements America’s system of government. SPLC hate-mongering.” Illustrating his lack of over more than four decades. The SPLC, director James Rucker, for example, also principles is the fact that, before creating Wilcox explained, unjustly demonizes its serves as chairman of ColorOfChange.org. the SPLC, Dees actually defended white “ideological opponents, which includes a The radical group, aside from constantly supremacists with KKK money in court. wide range of organizations and individu- fanning the flames of hate against police, Dees has been the subject of other serious als who have nothing to do with racism.” was founded by self-described communist criticism. In divorce papers filed in court, It also bullies and stalks those it disagrees revolutionary Van Jones, who was a leader for example, he was accused of beating his with, he said. in the Marxist-Maoist revolutionary group wife, sexually molesting his underage step- The unfair demonization of conserva- STORM (Standing Together to Organize a daughter, and a wide range of bizarre be- tives, Christians, and others can actually Revolutionary Movement). havior. Dees’ former business partner also be life-threatening to both police and citi- As the SPLC continues to discredit it- revealed that he and Dees “shared the over- zens, said Wilcox, who established the Wil- self, praise cop-killing terrorists, inflame riding purpose of making a pile of money.” cox Collection of Contemporary Political hatred, and endanger and bully law-abid- “We were not particular about how we did Movements at the University of Kansas. ing citizens over their mainstream politi- it; we just wanted to be independently rich,” This is because police officers may over- cal views, more than a few government the business partner was quoted as saying. react to bumper stickers or other “indica- agencies and media outlets across America Dees is reported to be worth millions, and tors” that the SPLC uses to identify and de- have stopped relying on the outfit for in- his SPLC is sitting on hundreds of millions monize those it disagrees with in the eyes formation. LECF suggests all law enforce- of dollars in its endowment. Dees’ former of police and government agencies that rely ment cut ties with the SPLC. n business partner, Millard Fuller, by contrast, on its propaganda. “By alleging ‘danger-

16 LECF • September, 2016 Book Review A War of Lies The Black Lives Matter claim that cops endanger blacks — not safeguard them — is investigated, analyzed, and refuted by investigative journalist Heather Mac Donald.

The War on Cops: How the New Attack rising crime rates as proactive policing is on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less reduced, from the disproportionately high Safe, by Heather Mac Donald, New York, black-on-black murder rate to the fact that New York: Encounter Books, 2016, 248 police are, as Mac Donald puts it, “the pages, hardcover. government agency most committed to the proposition that ‘black lives matter.’” And of the oft-repeated claims of BLM. n an era of violent riots, looting, and — with the honest facts on her side — she Mac Donald tackles those claims head the murder of police officers in cities tells it like it is, without either apology or on. After illustrating that crime — espe- I as diverse as Dallas and Baton Rouge the need for apology. cially violent crime — has been declining — largely instigated by the rhetoric and The war on police has a decided racial since the 1990s as a direct result of proac- actions of Black Lives Matter (BLM) — (even racist) foundation. The narrative of tive policing policies such as the controver- Heather Mac Donald’s newest book could BLM and its apologists — in both govern- sial “Broken Windows” model (which has not be more timely. The War on Cops: ment and media — is that cops (mostly become one of BLM’s favorite whipping How the New Attack on Law and Order white cops) systematically make black boys), she writes that as those effective Makes Everyone Less Safe, published in men the targets of stops, citations, arrests, policies are being abandoned, the gains in June by Encounter Books, offers a clear violence, and even murder. In a world that law and order are beginning to reverse: analysis of the danger behind the newest is increasingly divided by race, it is almost wave of the war on police and the cost impossible to have a reasonable discussion Now, that triumph over chaos and America’s cities are paying in lives and about this issue. If the writer or speaker is lawlessness is in jeopardy. Fueling the property as law and order are sacrificed at black and points out the fact that the vast rise in crime in places like Baltimore the altar of political correctness. majority of violent crime is committed and Milwaukee is a multipronged at- Heather Mac Donald is a John M. Olin by black men, he or she will be branded a tack on law enforcement. Since late Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for “sellout.” If the writer or speaker is white, summer 2014, a protest movement Policy Research and a prolific writer on a the brand reads “racist.” The same brand- known as Black Lives Matter has variety of conservative — and controver- ing holds true if a writer or speaker of any convulsed the nation. Triggered by a sial — topics. She has written for the Wall race points out that a high number of black series of highly publicized deaths of Street Journal, is a contributing editor to stops, citations, and arrests happen because black males at the hands of the police, the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, cops go where the crime is and that means the Black Lives Matter movement and has been called as an expert witness inner-city neighborhoods, which are often holds that police officers are the great- on criminal justice policy, besides author- mostly black. The branding escalates if one est threat facing young black men ing several books. dares to point out that — in most cases — today. That belief has spawned riots, Through compelling real-life accounts the black men who die at the hands of po- “die-ins,” and the assassination of po- and incontrovertible data, The War on lice were in the act of committing a violent lice officers. The movement’s targets Cops dismantles and exposes the lies of crime and that they are ultimately respon- include Broken Windows policing and BLM and the liberal politicians behind sible for their own deaths. the practice of stopping and question- the policies that have grown out of those Mac Donald came armed with enough ing suspicious individuals, both of lies. With facts and statistical data, Mac well-researched facts to deflect much of which are said to harass blacks. Donald squares off against the liberal nar- that and a reasoned tone tempered with rative of BLM on topics ranging from Fer- compassion for the black victims of black “Broken Windows” is a policing policy guson to Baltimore, from BLM’s claims crime, knowing that her detractors would that, Mac Donald explains, “holds that al- that police unfairly target blacks to the dismiss anything other than a regurgitation lowing a neighborhood to become overrun

18 LECF • September, 2016 by graffiti, litter, public drunkenness, and other forms of disorder breeds more crime by signaling that social control in the area has collapsed.” By enforcing laws against vandalism, public drunkenness, urinating in the streets, etc., police send the oppo- site message: Law and order will prevail. The effect of this policy — in conjunc- tion with other similar policies — led to the decline in crime, Mac Donald says. And she also asserts that its abandonment Heather has led to an increase in crime. She offers Mac Donald ample evidence in the way of crime data and the personal testimony of those most impacted by the shift away from such proactive policing: poor, black residents rest or conduct an investigation. Cops past suspicious characters in neighbor- of inner-city neighborhoods. feared becoming the latest YouTube hoods known to be pockets of high crime, As cities across America have re- pariah when a viral cell-phone video ignoring the obvious gun-shaped bulge sponded to the war on police by blaming showed them using force against a under the over-sized sports jersey, those police and the effective policing policies suspect who had been resisting arrest. same cops simply returned later to file on which they rely to keep those cities reports of the robberies, rapes, and mur- safe, there has been a phenomenon of de- Mac Donald shows statistically what ders and then set off searching for a sus- policing, known as the Ferguson Effect many others — including George Mason pect they could have stopped had they not — a phrase Mac Donald helped coin that University economist Walter Williams and been hamstrung by the Ferguson Effect of refers to the unrest after the 2014 shooting Stanford University economist Thomas BLM. As Mac Donald wrote: of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black Sowell (both of whom are black men who man, by a white police officer in Ferguson, have been branded as “Uncle Toms”) — If the Black Lives Matter movement . As individual officers and whole have shown previously: The decline in were correct, this falloff in discre- departments move away from proactive black culture — which is responsible for tionary policing should have been a policing, all that is left is reactive polic- the high rate of crime in black communi- boon to black lives. Instead, a blood- ing. Instead of providing a police presence ties — is the result of the disintegration of bath ensued, and its victims were vir- and preventing higher-level crime by ar- the black two-parent family. tually all black. When the cops back resting the criminal for lower-level crime There is a law at work in the universe off, blacks pay the greatest price. before he escalates, cops are showing up that states that those who will not govern That truth would have come as no at more and more scenes of robbery, rape, themselves internally will be governed by surprise to the legions of inner-city and murder to fill out reports and find the others externally. In the absence of self- residents who fervently support the criminal who is — more often than not government, there is a self-imposed neces- police and whose voices are almost — described by victims and witnesses as sity for greater police presence and action. never heard in the media. a black male. The war on police then de- As crime rises in those neighborhoods, the monizes those cops for focusing on black law-abiding who live in terror of that crime Sadly, those “black lives” join the police as men in the investigation. Talk about a rock need more police presence and more police casualties in the war on cops, which Mac and hard place. involvement, not less. Mac Donald wrote: Donald’s book reveals in all its ugliness. As Mac Donald describes the Ferguson Many readers may worry that Mac Don- Effect: Until the black family is reconstitut- ald advocates for a heavy-handed policing ed, the best protection that the law- of America’s cities — especially given her As 2015 progressed, few law-en- abiding residents of urban neighbor- defense of overreaching federal powers in forcement practices escaped attack hoods have is the police. her previous books. If there are elements for allegedly imposing unjust bur- of that mind-set in The War on Cops, they dens on blacks. But it was the viru- Unfortunately, as Mac Donald illustrates, are subtle and do not detract from her con- lent anti-cop rhetoric that was most BLM and its supporters do not share her vincing arguments that proactive policing consequential. Officers working in concern for the well-being of the resi- works, and stopping proactive programs inner cities routinely found them- dents of those poor, black neighborhoods helps one group: criminals. n selves surrounded by hostile, jeering besieged by crime. As cops “began to dis- crowds when they tried to make an ar- engage from proactive policing,” driving www.LECF-Inc.org 19