Washington D.C. Police Officers Forced to Learn Black History/Critical Race Theory to Better Understand Black Criminals

Previously on SBPDL: These aren't mutually exclusive: Seth Rich was the leaker to Wikileaks, but was just a victim of random black violence in D.C.

Would you like to see a glimpse of what every police department in America will introduce as continuation education for all officers? 

Courtesy of Washington D.C., we learn critical race theory is now more important than reciting the Miranda warning. [D. C. police to learn black history as part of new training program,Washington Post, 4-16-18]:

D.C. police officers will take a course on critical race theory and visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture as part of a new training program, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Friday morning outside the museum. 

The program, developed through a partnership between D.C. police and the University of the District of Columbia Community College, comes in the wake of amid nationwide concern over biased policing and use of force by officers, particularly in communities of color.  

“We are committed to accountability,” said Bowser, “to strengthen the bonds of trust between MPD and our residents.” 

While Bowser did report say that crime has decreased in the District — the end of 2017 saw a 23 percent drop in violent crimes and 17 percent fewer homicides — negative interactions between officers and black residents remain an issue. 

The program takes officers through a day of training, which includes a three-hour lecture on black history, a guided tour through the National Museum of African American History and Culture and a lesson on U Street, where officers examine police brutality. 

The effort comes as departments throughout the country have increased efforts to recognize and counter bias. In a similar move, the Chicago Police Department last year announced recruits would tour the DuSable Museum of African American History and the Illinois Holocaust Museum as part of their mandatory training. 

In the District, the program’s facilitators hope to provide officers with insight into the African American experience in the nation’s capital. 

“If you’re going to be a police officer in Washington, you need to understand the history of the city, and race is a big part of that,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum. Wexler has studied a range of issues related to police conduct, from gun-violence prevention to the heroin epidemic. 

Police Chief Peter Newsham said the museum’s exhibits force officers to confront ugly moments in the history of policing. 

“People who were supposed to serve and protect had played in the enforcement of discriminatory, racist and unjust policies and laws,” Newsham said. “The museum includes very honest and poignant stories of the role that policing played in some of the historical injustices in our country.”

In every police department, in every city in America, critical race theory will soon find willing pupils to inculcate. 

The only reason the city of Washington D.C. even needs police officers is because of high rates of black crime/dysfunction/homicide.

It doesn't need stating, but nearly 99.9 percent of the "gun violence" in Washington D.C. is committed by blacks. What Rich and his inevitably black killer had in common is simple: they both were out to get whitey. 

Hunter S. Thompson, in his hilarious Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 offered an all-too-familiar look at black violence/crime/dysfunction found in every American city with a black population of more than five percent. In a chapter titled, “Can Georgetown Survive the Black Menace?,” Thompson writes: 

Life runs fast and mean in this town. It’s like living in an armed camp, a condition of constant fear. Washington is 72 percent black; the shrinking white population has backed itself into an elegant-looking ghetto in the Northwest quadrant of town – which seems to have made things a lot easier for the black marauders who have turned places like chic Georgetown and once-stylish Capitol Hill into hellishly paranoid Fear Zones. 

 Washington Post columnist Nicholas Van Hoffman recently pointed that the Nixon/Mitchell Administration- seemingly obsessed with restoring Law and Order in the land, at almost any cost – seems totally unconcerned that Washington, D.C., has become the “Rape Capital of the World.” One of the most dangerous areas in town is the once-fashionable district known as Capitol Hill. 

This is the section immediately surrounding the Senate/Congress office buildings, a very convenient place to live for the thousands of young clerks, aides and secretaries who work up there at the pinnacle. The peaceful, tree-shaded streets on Capitol Hill look anything but menacing; brick colonial townhouses with cut-glass doors and tall windows looking out on the Library of Congress and the Washington Monument… 

When I came here to look for a house or apartment, about a month ago, I check around town and figured Capitol Hill was the logical place to locate. “Good God, man!” said my friend from the liberal New York Post. “You can’t live there! It’s a goddamn jungle!”  

Crime figures from “The District” are so heinous that they embarrass even J. Edgar Hoover. Rape is said to be up 80 percent this year over 1970, and a recent rash of murders (averaging one every day) has mashed the morale of the local police to a new low. Of the 250 murders this year, only 36 have been solved… and the Washington Post says the cops are about to give up. 

  Meanwhile, things like burglaries, street muggings and random assaults are so common that they are no longer considered news. The Washington Evening Star, one of the city’s three dailies, is located in the Southeast District – a few blocks from the Capitol – in a windowless building that looks like the vault at Fort Knox. Getting into the Star to see somebody is almost as difficult as getting into the White House. 

Visitors are scrutinized by hired cops and ordered to fill out forms that double as “hall passes.” So many Star reporters have been mugged, raped and menaced that they come and in fast taxis, like people running the gauntlet – fearful, with good reason, of every sudden footfall between the street and the bright-lit safety of the newsroom guard station…. 

Getting beaten in Congress is one thing – even if you get beaten a lot – but when you slink of out of the Senate chamber with your tail between your legs and then have to worry about getting mugged, stomped, or raped in the Capitol parking lot by a trio of renegade Black Panthers… well, it tends to bring you down a bit, and warp your Liberal Instincts. 

 There is no way to avoid “racist undertones” here. The simple heavy truth is that Washington is mainly a Black City, and that most of the violent crime is therefore committed by blacks – not always against whites, but often enough to make the relatively wealthy white population very nervous about random social contacts with their black fellow citizens. 

After only 10 days in this town I have noticed the Fear Syndrome clouding even my own mind: I find myself ignoring black hitchhikers, and every time I do it I wonder, “Why the fuck did you do that?” And I tell myself, “Well, I’ll pick up the next one I see.” And sometimes I do, but not always…

 Not much has changed in D.C. since Thompson wrote those words.

But with critical race theory, we can blame all the problems black criminals create on the lingering residue of white racism negatively affecting the city.