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Very scary situation, a city Police Officer in a gun battle with suspects, runs out of bullets and the suspect still had enough to continue his onslaught against the Officer. 

Why doesn’t city Police have more firepower?  Is it budget reasons or is St. Louis a city with not enough violent crime to arm their Officers better?  Recently the city Police dept. purchased 9mm carbine rifles for some Officer to carry in their squad cars.  The carbine rifle isn’t no more than mid caliber gun designed to be a little more accurate than the service semi-auto pistol carried by every Officer.  The 9mm caliber is considered a high speed projectile that won’t penetrate 1/2”inch into a telephone book at 25 yards.  The suspects are carrying assault weapons that fire ammo that can pierce a car’s engine block and go threw a telephone book at 50 yards.  This rifle is just an extension of their already ineffective service handgun.  

Saint Louis County Police armed their supervisors with AR-15 assault rifles which are more powerful than the city Police Rifle but still not as powerful as the AK-47 the preferred weapon of street thugs and standard issue to terrorist world wide. 

I understand the concern for civilian casualties by the use of high powered assault weapons; today maybe 100 rounds were fired with no casualties and suspects escaped.  When bullets start firing and civilians are present, I would want the trained Officer to able to out gun the suspect and end his rampage permanently.

Today reminds of an experience I had in 1993, over 100 shots fired, 1 civilian killed by gang members, one 7 year old shot by gang members and we where out gunned, Three Officers in my unit at the time including myself ran out of ammo, one Officer even used a thrown suspect’s rifle to keep them at bay from possibly killing us.   Any City or County Officer for that matter can at anytime be faced with the situation that happened today.  These dirt bags travel armed to the tee everyday, we need our Police Officers, Sheriffs, Security & Corrections people armed like LAPD, if they are to protect the nations most violent city.

Does the U.S. Government buy from China? Yes!  Office supplies, TVs, Electronics, Computers and so on.  No wonder they want to give us rebates, the savings they have made buying from China & Mexico.

Already I have a problem with american retailers selling foreign products, but to take a bigger look at it, the goverment has to buy foreign as well.  Office Max, Office Depot, products are 80% made over seas, and were does the government spends, mega millions on office products?  China & Mexico!  

Now I'm hearing that soldiers don't have supplies and ammunition. Have we lost that much manufacturing that we need to buy military supplies and ammunition from over seas? I want to know. Maybe Fox or Jaco can report this for us.  I want to know are the materials used for helmets and vest manufactured made by american blood (pride) for our soldiers?  I think Clinton and Bush sold us out.  Jaco, who did it? Let us know.

I have very little experience with Latino people so I have yet make an opinion on them other than what the media shows us and tells us about them entering the country by the 1000's.  It's been about about 8 yrs since I've reviewed the FBI's most wanted on a local and nationwide level on a regular basis..  Today I thought I would do just that, and what I found kinda surprised me.

Latino's are nearly 10 to 1, blacks and or whites most wanted in the United States.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/cei/fug_cei.htm

How did this happen, is it not happening here locally so we don't see it, or do the local media refuse to cover it.  I know several violent occurences that involved latino's against latino's; a wedding were both side cut and stab each other till no one could stand. That happened in northwest county.  I'm not sure of where the latino popluation lives, but I don't believe we are being made aware of the crimes that involve our communities.  I will do more research to support my theory and post it here.  Please share your thoughts.

Has fox got a little two hip for thier own good? Do we as bloggers influence them?  Comments they have made support some the identifiable hate mungers that bring hate  to the site daily. 

Who ever was responsible for airing the opinions of bloggers should be fired, in fact I demand that they be terminated.  Since when did blogs become mainstream news?  Since when did public opinion become needed by a news stations to report a story.

Obvious it's about money, I notice more and more advertisers on the blog pages now and maybe your selling out your community to more advertisments.  That does seem to be the way of the land, in this good'ol US of A.  I do believe you guys need to take two steps back and get grip on your purpose.  Promoting hate on Federally governed air waves is not it.  I do believe the FCC needs to be made aware of this and your handling of the entire Kirkwood incident.  As Management of FOX 2 you have inflicted just as much damage as the man behind the trigger, check you systems of checks and balances, I hope that your promotion of hate was just a mistake of one and not the decision of many.  I do believe your viewers deserve and apology,  Bloggers should not have that much power, Not on our public or private airwaves. 

What a day, just finished roll call, I got my squad car and about to take to the streets.  Now it’s about 0930 and I’ve been riding the hoods for about 2 hours no calls to go on I guess the creeps are still sleeping.  As I pull over to watch this stop sign that’s frequently violated by almost anyone, my cell phone rings, its one of my friends who tells me his car got stolen last night and that the perps burglarized his house while he and his wife were sleep and they stole his keys along with several other household items.  I immediately call a few of my buddies who work in other areas and advise them to be on the look out for the car.  It wasn’t even 20mins and the car was spotted by an Officer who patrols a neighboring area and he is now in pursuit of the vehicle and they are heading my way.  As the pursuit enters my area I can see sparks coming from the stolen vehicle as it hits high areas in the pavement nearly becoming air born.  I radio all units to back off because the pursuit is destroying my friend’s car.  Everyone complies and we combine our efforts by concentrating patrols in the area. 

About 1100 I spot the vehicle occupied by two and I hit my lights and siren in an attempt to curb the vehicle when driver steps on it and the pursuit is on once again.  I radio my location and one of my fellow Officers joins the chase behind me.  After several blocks of speeding the passenger door of my friends vehicle opens and the brake light come on.  I know they are about to bail.  As I get closer now I see both doors are open and I radio all units my location and that the perps are about to bail.  By the time we get to the next street corner they bail and the car keeps rolling and strike a parked vehicle were it stops.  I give foot chase.  I can hear my fellow Officer behind me panting as we are running top speed.  I’m just about 20 yards behind the suspect driver when I observe him run into home with the front door open.  Being in hot pursuit and never losing site of the suspect I enter the house behind him with my weapon drawn.  The house is a part of a two family flat which is straight thru unit as I look to the back door I see a woman with her kids in hand going out of the back door, as she exits she points to the bathroom door, letting me know that is where the suspect is hiding.  At this time two other Officers arrive and we approach the bathroom, I yell to the suspect to come out and he doesn’t respond.  I alert the other Officers that I’m going to kick the door open and they acknowledge.

As I kick the door in the suspect puts his hands up and walk out, I advise him that he is under arrest and as I attempt to place cuffs on him he tries to bolt thru us and make an escape.  I grab the suspect from behind and slam him thru the cocktail table then I pick him up and smash his head into the nearest wall then again I ride him hard to the floor ramming his head into the hardwood.  The suspect starts yelling ok, I give then I give him one more thump to the back because this arrest is personal.  As the Officers reach to pick him up I kick him in the rear as hard as I can with my jump boots.  Before hauling him off to jail he was identified as a known 17 yr old local drug dealer who may have trading drugs for the car.  Turns out he didn’t know the lady who lived at the house he entered and he caused 2,000 dollars worth of damage to the ladies home. 

Was this officer justified in his attack or did he over react in a situation he took personal??? 

I remember my grandpa telling me what to do every day of my life until I left his home at the age of 17.  As much as I disliked his dictatorship over me, I learned why it was needed.  The sad thing is, like Kevin Johnson inside and outside my grandpa’s house I had guns and drugs within a hands reach. 

As I child I was told every day to stay away from the bad crowd.  In grade school I played in the jazz band, in high school I played in the marching band, I had lots of interest.  As a child of course the curiosity of the unknown will draw you in every time.  I believe 90% of urban black children are and will be exposed to guns, drugs and sex before they turn 11.  I had fired my first gun in the air at the age of nine and I was not on a shooting range or in the woods, it was more likely in gangway between houses.   At this same I age I witnessed my first dead body shot to death on the sidewalk just out side the local corner store.  At this age I was caught in the middle of violent gun battle while bike riding my neighborhood with friends.  By the time I was ten I had my first encounter with a police Officer patrolling my neighborhood and he told me “I will kill your little azz” if didn’t go home.  In middle school and High school many of my schoolmates from my neighborhood carried guns to school and various other weapons.  It didn’t make the news back then no one cared.

Marijuana was always available to kids in my neighborhood as well as other illegal drugs.  Many of the older guys 18+ would not let guys my age smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol in front of them but now that has changed.  Now we see 5 year old children under the influence of all types of narcotics.  Must be the devil….  People in my community during the 80s use to always tell me of things I could not do….  I could not be cop and shouldn’t want to be, I could not be pilot or a doctor because white people won’t let me, and these were people who I looked up to, neighborhood adults and older siblings of friends.  I didn’t learn that I could actually be a cop until I was 25.

At the age of 15-20 the years of 1985-90+ nearly every neighborhood in the city of StL had young black youth selling or using drugs, Crack Cocaine & Liquid embalming fluid a.k.a Whack.  The drugs dealers socialized together from time to time to brag on cars, clothes, guns and women.  Drug users strategize on how to get more money for more drugs.  There were guys my age in my neighborhood who needed help counting money; as much as 500,000.00 dollars.  An 18 Years old with a half a million dollars.  This type of money was being collected by drug dealers in nearly every city community.   I believe nationwide every city combined within 5 days of crack dealing, more cash was produced than any casino in the world.  For many it was a dream come true to have so much money, but nothing to do with it.  The most any one could do was buy jewelry and cars.  Eventually these guys would get indicted for the cash & drugs especially if they spent over 10k on a single purchase.  I remember hearing of this one guy who tried to purchase a helicopter.

No one could predict the impact this period of time would have on our communities nationwide. This is when many kids began to growing up without parents because so many were on Crack.  This is the time when the Crips and Bloods would influence many kids coming from this generation.  Today the effect is still there, young black kids chasing ½ million dollar dreams and parents still trying to stay high.  We hoped that some rap music would get the message of the damage caused by the past; but just like anything else it got smeared by greed and the almighty dollar.

No excuse:  Even though many people try to say this is a hard life, I have only seen it as life; now that I have survived that part of it I have learned there is more life for me.  Only a person who didn’t grow up in the hood would say this is a hard life because for most people who grow up this way it’s just plain LIFE.  

I give all my thanks to GOD and my Grandparents that I have not been in a situation like that of Kevin Johnson or the Juvenile who killed the city cop, I do believe that any of the 90% can yield the same results if they were in those two guys shoes.  Unfortunately the hood is the training ground for more killers to come.  Kevin Johnson's execution would only mean revenge and there thousands of familes who want the same revenge for thier loved ones.  And there are thousands of familes who will meet the same fate.  Let us Pray! 

What purpose do Cops serve?  I imagine many of you have different views depending on lifestyle, race, economic status etc...  How do you define Serve and Protect. 

Do police prevent crime anymore or did they ever?  Is law-enforcement a reactive agent; meaning, done after the fact?  After a law is broken the Police will attempt to enforce it.  Will the public better serve themselves now that concealed weapons are permissable?   

Why is law-enforcement just a job for the police? Why was citizens arrest put on the law books but no longer encouraged.  How hard is it to stop a hardened criminal and do you think you can do it?  Why does it seem that more people are getting away with crimes like bank robberies , car thefts and burglaries.

Do cities still have reserve police?  Why did the city get rid of it's reserve unit?  We still have volunteer fire fighters why not volunteer police?

Lot's of questions... Please share yours thoughts. 

Who would have guest? Forbes Magazine has moved into hood; not....

Donald Trump move over there are new multi-millionaires who area now worthy of some mainstream limelight. These are guys who made money by using the n-word and insulting woman but are now spending dough where it matters most; with the man. And for that they will now be reconized in a magazine who's only black faces shown would be that of millionaire athletes such as Majic Johnson or Micheal Jordon.

Rap music has so many people opposed to it that you would think their voices could be heard. I remember when politicians could be seen daily in the news opposing rap. Somewhere somehow someone is not watching what thier children are doing. Who funds these Gangster lyric writers to the point that they can do 100mil dollar deals with campanies like Coke. Can Fox show us the demographics on who's selling and buying the music.  I need to invest in something and look like rappers getting a 100% with no money down.  Forbes tell me more, can I buy stock in Nelly or Jay-Z?

How many of us believe in superstitions?  Consciously and un-consciously we don’t walk under ladders, we don’t break mirrors, I even see cigarette smokers turn two cigarettes upside down in the pack before lighting up and when I bummed one he had a fit seeing that I took the upside down one before the pack was empty.  I don’t have answers only questions.  Please feel free to comment or give examples of superstitions that you will or won’t do.  Afterwards think about your spiritual beliefs and decide if you’re putting superstitions before faith. 

As a child I thought superstitions were done in fun but I have found many are very serious about them as adults.  Is it a sin to believe in superstitions?  Is it a form of worship?      

Now I get it…. White people are upset because your freedom of speech has been forced to have limitations.  It can be unlawful for you to use words that may intimidate other races.  Like the ‘N’ word or nappy head, you have to mumble it under your breath unless you’re at home.  Man I never thought of it that way.  Your own country is has taken your freedom of speech.  I think you should be able to go to black person and say what you want, that’s your freedom and yo  aZz.

But, you feel Rap music can say all the above about anyone without any consequence.  Man, ya’ll are right that is a double standard, that’s not fair at all.  You should be able to make the same or similar music if you like.

You fail to see the big picture, your thoughts and ideas have been sold out.  Money speaks louder than you.  I don’t want my kids listening or repeating what is said in rap songs, but the money record labels make and I don’t know of any that or black owned, don’t care.  Greed! Who can you trust?  For decades YOU have allowed the morals of this country to deplete and I continue to ask “were you sleeping?”  Now you get these frequent wake up calls such as IMUS, DUKE and others.  None of this is Black peoples fault, I blame your greed; Money is the bottom line to all the injustices we see today.

TVs being made in Japan – Greed, Clothes being made over seas – Greed, Unions hiring cheap labor, – Greed,  Black kids calling each other the N word and disrespecting women in songs, - Greed, American businesses hiring illegal labor – Greed, America at war, Greed.  IMUS, DUKE even Sharpton and Jessie they are puppets none of them can change the greed of the all mighty dollar.  Money should now have “In You we Trust” printed on it.  This society isn’t about race any more it’s about money and if you don’t catch up you will be left behind wasting time blogging about issues that absorb your energy other than releasing it, because record labels, radio sponsors are welcome here but they are not here.  But if this is about personal entertainment and or gratification blaming someone else or some other race, tragedy.  Because I know dorn well that blacks have NO control over what is sold as music, where it is sold. I haven’t purchased a CD in over 10 years.  It’s your dollars that fund rap music.  Your kids are buying it. On the east coast you can’t find a Black face at a Snoop Dog Concert.  These Rappers are perusing that same thing the TV manufactures, clothing manufactures, American Businesses etc… selling out their own for the mighty dollar.  You can better help our races by educating on what you all ready know.  Your own have been selling you out for decades.  IMUS is gone because the greedy know that blacks spend billions of dollars every year.  He got sold out…  The same will happen to vulgar rappers, watch and see. 

This isn’t about race it’s about money and divided we stand the more they make as they continue to sellout you and I.   Maybe I’M wrong and if I am I will fight for Whites to have equal rights to freedom of speech.  Man that last line sounds ridiculous but that is what I'm getting when read blogs saying double standard.  Who would have thought it could happen to you?