By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--October 27, 2015
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"In today's YouTube world, are officers reluctant to get out of their cars and do the work that controls violent crime? Are officers answering 911 calls but avoiding the informal contact that keeps bad guys from standing around, especially with guns?" he asked in his Friday remarks. "I don't know whether this explains it entirely, but I do have a strong sense that some part of the explanation is a chill wind blowing through American law enforcement over the last year. And that wind is surely changing behavior." Ray Kelly, the former commissioner of the New York Police Department, said Monday that police are no longer "taking the initiative," which he said accounts for some of the rise in crime. "I commend Jim Comey for telling it like it is," Kelly told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room." "Officers are not engaging in proactive policing, not engaging in the levels they engaged in the recent past." White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday there was no evidence that police officers were "shirking" their duties given increased scrutiny on law enforcement, seeming to rebut FBI Director James Comey's assertion last week. "The available evidence at this point does not support the notion that law enforcement officers are shying away from fulfilling their responsibilities," Earnest said at the daily briefing. He cited national law enforcement leaders saying that there's little proof that police forces are relaxing their practices after high profile incidents of videotaped police brutality. "The evidence we've seen so far doesn't support the contention that law enforcement officials are somehow shirking their responsibility, and in fact you've seen law enforcement leaders across the country indicating that's not what's taking place," he said.
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