JD, that's why I was asking the question. If the FBI needs to change focus and/or the office there needs to be supplemented with additional agents, then so be it.
Kind of off-topic to what we're discussing but I'm damned curious as to what happened there the last two years that the city went from virtual 50 yrs lows in terms of homicides to this recent "blow-up"? I really can't think of anything that set things off. Especially, when no other major cities appear to have suffered a similar fate.
@hollywood, in chicago the police has stopped hitting the beat, they only react to calls. This is why murders are way up, I believe the Police is waiting for the murder rate to get so high they make their point and they will be told you will no longer be considered guilty until proven innocent on shootings and please go police and work the beat. The police is turning their heads unless they get a call. Police actions are down like 80,000 per month in chicago and part of this is also the new report the mayor of chicago requires the police to fill out every time they get involved with the public, police says it takes an hour to fill out. Mayor wants to stop racial profiling and all he has done is create more murder, combined with prior leadership creating a hostile environment towards police and the assumption every shooting is racially motivated. I saw a investigative report in which they had the former chicago police chief that was fired discussing this as well as some chicago cops whose identity was disguised.
Think about it, Obama from the bully pulpit said Police in this country was racist, for the small percentage of bad apples all cops were labeled racist. Black lives matter movement started which turned racially charged. Cops all over this country are under the microscope, and anytime a white officer shoots a minority it is now assumed it was racially motivated. Cops are considered guilty until proven innocent, look at the shooting of cops in Dallas in Baton Rouge. If you were a cop today, would you aggressively police your beat if you knew if you shot someone in what you felt like was self defense and it was a minority and chances are you most likely are going to jail and be called a racist what would you do? Cops in chicago only respond to calls they get from the radio in their car, if they see a fight late at night in an alley they are no longer getting involved, or a suspected drug deal, etc... Some believe it has gone so far as the cops wait for 30 minutes after the radio call with the thought process when they arrive the bad guys would have resolved it themselves, usually by shoot outs. But hey, no racial profiling occurred and we saved another racially motivated cop from killing a minority. I guess it is ok the death count rises as long as it is minorities killing minorities. Feds are going to have to step in and it will be ugly and they will call Trump racist for trying to restore order.
It is happening here in OKC as well, I know a female that quit working for the Sheriff's Office because they were told point blank if they are involved in a shooting they would have to
prove why it was justified and the assumption would be it was not. This women quit immediately, she was small and said she knew a man could physically over power her if he went for her gun and she said if she was not getting the benefit of the doubt she was done. They had a meeting and this was a few years ago and they were explained this new "policy" that was not even in writing. Under "stand your ground" laws in oklahoma a civilian has more rights.
We need to support the police, or the minority communities better start cranking out minority police officers fast so we can stop racial tensions or the killings will continue. Obama left a mess nationally and it sure is ironic his home town is the most worst off for it.
Most thankless jobs in this country today is being a cop and being a teacher in a school in which there is anarchy in the class room and that is a bunch of schools including some in Oklahoma.
