Innovations in Policing  Wauwatosa, WIsconsin, Cleverly Employs Black Killer Cop To Kill Blacks.
Channel: Jason Zenith
Date: 2020-10-14

Who says "law enforcement" is hidebound by tradition and incapable of innovation? The police department in the small town of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, shows that even a backwater burg is flexible enough to adopt modern policing methods.

A black member of the force (maybe the ONLY black member), Joseph Mensah, has just shot dead his third victim in just five years. 

To put this in perspective: there are about a million cops in the U.S.- Federal, state, county, local, not counting "private" (corporate) "security." Most of them never shoot a single person in their entire careers. Mensah shot DEAD 3 people in only 5 years. (Following standard practice in police shootings, the local prosecutor found the killer cop blameless, indeed fully justified.)

Mensah, a real go-getter, is no doubt "a credit to his race" in the eyes of his employer and local white racists. Evidently eager to distinguish himself, and win acceptance by his white colleagues, Mensah has unleashed his inner killer instinct to notch three scalps on his ammo belt.

The Town Fathers (and Mothers, if there are any in positions of power or influence) of Wauwatosa  thus kill two birds with one stone. They "integrate" their police, showing how "progressive" and even "opposed to racism" they are, and they STILL get to oppress the black populace with selective violence. All the better having it meted out by one of the victims' "own kind."

I have observed as a continuing phenomenon black police "proving" themselves to white colleagues by brutalizing African-Americans and other "people of color." This is a perverse outcome of the demand for more black cops as a putative solution to police violence against blacks. That demand fundamentally misunderstood the real cause of police violence. The police are the armed enforcers of a particular social order. Racism is certainly part of that order, but the more important part is an economic system of exploitation designed to funnel wealth to the top of a social pyramid. At the bottom of the hierarchy are masses of "colored" people. To be sure, millinos of whites reside at the economic bottom, yet due to the racist caste system are considered a cut above other poor people. Thus does racism serve an institutional function of dividing the lower classes internally. Divide and rule is the principle being applied. Racism persists in part because it serves the interests of the established power structure and thus is an essential tool in the perpetuation of that system.

Unsurprisingly, rather than the presence of a few black and Hispanic officers seeded in police departments leading to a radical change in policing "culture" and the primary mission of police (keep the oppressed underclasses in their place by fear and intimidation), instead the new recruit conform to the expectations and standards of their employer's environment. Most people are conformist, and will conform to almost whatever environment they are in.

Change in U.S. police practice will only come from outside the police, via change in U.S. society. Which means either subverting and seizing control of the existing power structure, or defeating and destroying it. Neither looks doable in the near term. On the other hand, nothing lasts forever, including Evil Empires. And the U.S. Empire is visibly degenerating. Whether something more human replaces it is unknowable.

By the way, Wisconsin is the site of numerous police atrocities, most recently in the town of Kenosha, where a cop shot young father Jacob Blake 7 times at point blank range in the back in front of his young children as Blake was getting into his car, the cop right behind him. Blake miraculously survived, but is now a paraplegic. Wisconsin is also the state that brought the world the most notorious of the 1950's red-baiting purge-mongers, Senator Joseph McCarthy, a shameless liar and demagogue who helped free Nazi war criminals who had murdered U.S. prisoners of war. 

Nice. See how very "patriotic" reactionaries and fascists are?

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