5 Cops Shot In Jersey City

Now that the major drug turf wars are over and gang wars are out of style. The thugs are now turning their weapons on the boys in blue. Increasingly, criminals are engaging in high speed chases and shootouts to avoid going to our overcrowded prisons and jails.

For years the black and latino communities have been dumping grounds for cheap automatic and semi-automatic weapons. Everything was fine as long as the weapons were being used to kill each other over drug profits that would eventually reach the banks, lawyers, and politicians that were profiting after each and every shooting.

The drug gangs finally wised up and learned how to make money quietly, just like the bootleggers and mafia of old. Now all of these guns are on the street in the hands of young thugs. The new breed is more violent because, in most cases, they have already experienced prison and the criminal justice system. They have no job, education, or training once free and therefore, no future. Violence is there only certainty.

Police nationwide are not prepared to deal with this 21st century thug. These thugs are better armed than any before, smarter, and more violent. The SWAT and Bull Connor tactics of the 70's won't work anymore. Brains will! What happened to negotiate first, shoot second. The first officer was wounded in the leg. Hardly any reason to bust in blasting.

A "Stop Snitching" program was initiated in the Black and Latino communities in the late 90's because many were tired of seeing young men and women locked up at four times the rate for whites. The campaign has now shifted from stop snitching to "start shooting". Maybe now is a good time to review those gun laws.