At the end of September, “Community Oversight Now – Nashville,” the Coalition which succeeded in bringing the question of a civilian community oversight board to a referendum as part of the November 6 ballot, posted their travel plans for October.
Some or all of the Coalition’s leftist member groups were traveling to Florida to attend the annual conference of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE). This is an organization that claims to have “professionalized” the business of lay people pretending they know more or at least enough, to decide whether cops are doing their jobs according to the law. Or at least judge a police officer’s actions according to what Black Lives Matter says is the way policing should be carried out.
What’s not known about the Florida radicals’ junket, is who footed the bill, how many and from which Coalition member group attended the NACOLE conference?
NACOLE is one of the organizations that was included in Obama’s White House task force that came up with 63 recommendations for how local police departments can make themselves better liked by the communities they serve, including the criminals who have guns.
It also includes the assassins who, without direct provocation, have carried out police executions.
It also includes members of Black Lives Matter who are credited with starting the “war on police.”
Black Lives Matter also presented their side of the story to Obama’s task force. But NACOLE was the one group that walked away from the Obama administration with a $400,000 grant to write the recipe for local groups to get their own police oversight board run by civilians who NACOLE, for a fee, is willing to train. And if oversight board members keep attending NACOLE’s conferences, they too can earn the Certified Practitioner of Oversight credential.
Anyone notice a pattern here?
NACOLE is seriously convinced of its own insights into what it means to be a real, sworn member of the “Thin Blue Line” – a reference to how police officers stand between law-abiders and criminals. In fact, NACOLE is so self-convinced that it will train-up police overseers to:
provide on-scene monitoring of critical incidents, such as officer-involved shootings, or of mass social gatherings, including protests and demonstrations; and they may subsequently provide the public with a singularly independent account of the actions taken by the police, evaluating whether those actions were appropriate under the circumstances or showed a need for some measure of reform.
Make no mistake about it – Metro Nashville’s police officers may be walking the plank if Black Lives Matter and their collaborators have their way.
The move to get a police oversight board in place has money behind it. In this case the money won’t buy love, but it will buy control.
Oh yeah, it was Black Lives Matter fellow-travler the ACLU who put out the guidebook about how community coalitions and oversight boards can be used to control police who the ACLU says have a looooong history of abusing the public they are supposed to be protecting.
Voters in Davidson County will decide whether the $10 million dollar – 5 year tax hike is worth the price to hand the reigns of the city over to folks being schooled in how to dismantle the local police department. If this passes in Metro, you can bet that Memphis will be sure to follow.
The oversight board is just another way for the Left to get its meat hooks into Nashville.
Might not be such a bad idea in Memphis. In Memphis you have a 1 in 14 chance of becoming a victim of any crime.
For every 100,000 people, there are 20.42 daily crimes that occur in Memphis.
20 murders per 100,000 people
63 forcible rapes per 100,000 people
514 robberies per 100,000 people
According to the annual crime data, the crime rate in Memphis, TN is 114% higher than the average of the whole of the state of Tennessee, and when compared with the national average, is 163% higher.
Violent crimes in Memphis, TN is 188% higher than the average of the whole state, while remaining 371% higher than the national average.
In property crime, Memphis, TN is 97% higher than the average of Tennessee and is 130% higher than the national average. The overall crime rate in Memphis is 163% higher than the national average.
Will all the leftist, neo-Marxist, progressive, no-nothing social justice warriors please go back to Chicago, California and all the other places you came from? Your leaving would help the traffic and housing problems in Nashville, not mention the political atmosphere. Also I suggest watching Ben Shapiro’s video on the “7 Myths of Democratic Socialism Debunked.”