How to make cops' lives matter..... again.

How to make Cops' lives matter, again

The anecdotal and statistical evidence agree on this: There is a war on the police by the criminal element in this country and, in my opinion, aided and abetted by the criminal element within the political class, who are teaching the country that anyone can be above the law. I'm talking about you, Mr. DiBlasio, and those like you in Washington and elsewhere in the country. Killings of police are up 50% this year over last, and last year's total of slain officers were up 50% over the number in 2013. This is a potential disaster for this country. Ayn Rand wrote about 'the doers of the economic engine' giving up in ”Atlas Shrugged”. What if the “Atlas” that 'shrugged' was about the police? Just ask Baltimore about that.

But this essay is not to opine that aspect of this problem. It's what can be done about it. How do we slow this trend down, and hopefully stop it?

Well, there is the idea of better police/community relations. Los Angeles is showing the way with that. Let's talk about that some other time. But the latest incident of cop killing, in Harris County, Texas, of police officer Darren Goforth, points up the fact that something has to be done from the enforcement side to make potential cop killers think twice before committing the murder of any law enforcement officer. I have two ideas.

First, assuming that at some point Conservatives are more a part of the power structure in this country at the Federal level, I believe that a law should be enacted which would make the killing of any law enforcement officer, acting in the line of duty, a Federal Hate Crime. Hate Crimes are being prosecuted for far less important reasons---why not this? The law might be structured something like this: Let the state courts go through the process of prosecuting the alleged cop killer—the states should not lose their rights in this regard-- but once a conviction is secured there, the crime would then be required to be brought up on the Federal level as a Hate Crime. In such a circumstance, a conviction would be very likely foregone conclusion. Whether a conviction ant the Federal level would require the death penalty really wouldn't make much of a difference anyway. Why?

Well, and this is the second idea: I believe that anyone who commits a crime as heinous as the killing of a police officer who is acting in the line of duty, should not be merely sentenced to life imprisonment without a chance for parole. Those thus convicted should be isolated. 

Understand that, within prison culture, any prison, there is a pecking order among inmates, with child molesters and sex crime convicts at the bottom; those are usually either murdered or forced to commit suicide after the torture they receive at the hands of other prisoners. From there, the order ascends to those inmates who are (you guessed it) convicted cop killers. Cop killers are the cream of the crop in prison culture, the kings of the hill, if you will. 

So? So that's why the best punishment is to isolate them. Put them in a cell by themselves, with four walls, a toilet, wash basin and a cot, with virtually no human contact whatsoever, for the rest of their lives. No radio, TV, computer, pen, paper, clock, or outdoors, no contact with family, guards or any other prisoner, one hour a day of exercise time, and attorney visits limited to once a year. And low lighting. Nothing bright. The prospect of spending the rest of one's life like that, or even just twenty years, with the killer's only contact being with God, might just be the kind of deterrent that would give pause to those who'd think of killing a man or woman in blue. The monster who ambushed Officer Darren Goforth on the last Friday in August should be made to think about that.

I'm not a proponent of Federalizing such state-'controlled' crimes as murder, but since the Federalizing

of hate crimes, the ball's in their court, so to speak. 

What do you think? Is this doable? I think so, even with the inevitable Constitutional challenges involved. Cruel and unusual punishment. I'm tired of that shopworn argument, in light of the cruel and unusual punishments which these lowlifes mete out on their victims, over and over again. Once the word gets out on this, do you think it would be a deterrent? If you think so, then talk this up, put it out on social media and to your friends. You don't even have to mention that you saw it here. There are others taking up this cause as well. So much of social media is used for the purposes of evil. Let's see if it can be used as a force for law, order and good of America. That would be a good place to start.

One more thing: If you stand by law enforcement, and are appalled at the lack of respect it is getting, let your feelings show. Get a 'Thank You, Blue!' button, at walshfreedom.com, and wear it daily.

For “The Art of Conservatism”, I'm Art Reis.