Bloomberg to NYPD Nothing Has Changed, “Keep Shooting to Murder.”

Mayor Mike Bloomberg has shown his true colors, this weekend he got quite upset at Rep. Charlie Rangel who cracked a joke that “even Obama shouldn’t run through Harlem without making sure he is properly identified.”    Sad to say but so true.  In fact I would go one further and suggest President Obama never run through any of New York City’s street ever, whether he is properly identified or not because at the rate black men are gunned down in New York by white New York City Police Officers without penalty is astronomical indeed.  And it might just provide the perfect opportunity for Obama opponents to get rid of him without having to wait another eight years. I could just hear the explanations now.  He fit the description of a mugger we were looking for or we though the bulge in his pants was a swinging gun.

Come on the fact that Mayor Bloomberg would be so sensitive about such a joke speaks volumes of his own outlook on the crisis minority men, Police Officers included are facing on the streets of New York City.   If you are lost please allow me to spell it out for you, over the past 20 years countless unarmed minority civilian men and armed off duty minority Police Officers have been gunned down by white on duty Police Officers, resulting in none of the Police Officers being convicted for taking innocent lives.

Over the course of the last twenty years the black community keeps hearing about changes being made to New York City Police procedures and sensitivity training being provided to the entire Police Department; yet still nothing has changed.   And unfortunately these crimes will continue to happen because it has much less to do with the training being provided than it has to do with the culture and mentality that is fostered among white Police Offficers, and allowed to remain in existence by City Hall and Department leadership.   Until that culture and bias is weeded out then these murders will continue to happen.

It may be hard to hear and accept but that does not mean it isn’t real and justified.  The fact is that white Police Officers within the New York Police Department and especially within their Anti Crime units have a all encompassing attitude towards minority men period.  An attitude or belief  that creates an unwillingness to acknowledge that they are innocent, God fearing, hard working men within our communities.  Yes they are criminals within the community who are armed and willing to do harm to others, however the Police Department’s own statistics will show the number of armed minority men they encounter on a daily basis when one considers the amount of stop and frisk done by Police.

Furthermore when one considers the number of minority men killed who turned out to be unarmed,  or the number of armed minority men killed who turned out to Police Officers in the course of trying to apprehend criminals, compared to those who were justifiably shot; then the numbers will  tell the story clearer than I ever could.

Considering the number of shots fired at these individuals then one can reason that the Police Officers’ intent is not to wound and apprehend but to shot and kill; there is clearly a them or me attitude prevalent among white Police Officers when it come to their interactions with minority men.