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Watch: Things Get HEATED When Retired NYPD Cop Comes Face-To-Face With Big Liberal On Live TV
With major cities in the country seeing spikes in violent crime this year, CNN invited former New York Police Department detective Harry Houck and the network’s commentator and college professor Marc Lamont Hill on the air Wednesday to discuss the reasons for these spikes, including the possibility of the “Ferguson Effect” being in play.
CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin first noted that the number of shootings in New York City is up 9 percent, while homicides are up 20 percent this year.
Not specifically mentioned are the numbers in Baltimore, which are far more ominous. The Baltimore Sun reports that 116 people have been killed so far this year, compared with 81 at this time last year. Nonfatal shootings are up 83 percent this year, according to police statistics. The 43 homicides in May were the most in a month in the city since December 1971.
Houck said: “I personally believe [the increase in violent crime] is because police are being handcuffed more and not being able to go out there and proactively work against the criminals in the inner city.”
Hill began to laugh.
Baldwin interjected: “That is the whole Ferguson Effect people are referring to.”
Houck continued: “I think a lot of the rhetoric out there has empowered the bad guys, thinking the cops aren’t going to stop me as much anymore, so now maybe I can carry my gun more.”
Hill countered: “I wish the cops were handcuffed more when there are unjust killings and shootings. I want to see that.”
“I don’t buy into the narrative that so many cops are getting arrested that they are scared to do their jobs,” he added. “Cops almost never get arrested.”
The exchange between the two really started to heat up when the subject turned to police departments policing their own ranks. Houck, who used to work in NYPD’s internal affairs department, stated that bad cops get investigated and punished.
“People will call us and make an allegation [against an officer], and we would investigate it,” he said.
“That’s absurd!” Hill erupted, before conceding that such investigations do happen. He added that, far too often, they do not. Further, if they do, many times no punishment results from the inquiries.
And the fireworks continued…
h/t: The Blaze
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-things-get-heated-when-retired-nypd-cop-comes-face-to-face-with-big-liberal-on-live-tv/
