The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal

Here are three articles from City Journal:

The Fog of Tragedy
If we’ve learned anything from recent police shootings, it’s to wait for all the facts to come in.
By Matthew Hennessey

Here we are again, watching gruesome cell-phone videos of deadly encounters between white cops and black men. Here we are again, jumping to conclusions about what happened and why. Here we are again, resorting to the default convictions of our instinctual allegiances: the victim must have done something; the cop was probably a racist.

Read more: City Journal

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The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal
The real story behind the murder of two NYPD officers
By Heather Mac Donald

Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant parts of the country, resulting in growing mass hysteria. That lie holds that the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans—indeed that the police are the greatest threat facing black Americans today. Several subsidiary untruths buttress that central myth: that the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks; that the black underclass doesn’t exist; and that crime rates are comparable between blacks and whites—leaving disproportionate police action in minority neighborhoods unexplained without reference to racism. The poisonous effect of those lies has now manifested itself in the cold-blooded assassination of two NYPD officers.

Read more: City Journal

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Also, WATCH VIDEO: ‘The War On Cops’ Book Launch
By Heather Mac Donald
Learn more here about Heather Mac Donald’s new book, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.