WSU PD Officer Dies from Gunshot Wound to Head

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My heart goes out to the officer and his family. What a shameful and senseless crime.

People way too often conflate "broken windows" policing with "stop and frisk". They are not the same. You can enforce delinquency laws without arbitrarily shaking down black and brown skinned young men over and over again for no reason, except for the fact that they are black and brown skinned young men. Broken windows policing has some merit. The latter absolutely does not.

The idea that BLM advocates violence is a ridiculous trope, like so many others proliferating these days. What a shame some people fall for it. Even more a shame: those who proliferate it. There is shame in spades these days.