Asbestos Gate Asbestos Investigation Begun at Naval Station Norfolk

Official sources within the Norfolk office of OSHA have confirmed to helpcom.net that OSHA has begun a formal investigation into first-hand accounts of asbestos run-off from roofs in the Naval Munitions sector at Naval Base Norfolk.

In an apparent effort to show decreased maintenance budgets for essential asbestos remediation, the civil service personnel with NAVFAC MIDLANT led by Captain E.M. Aaby as well as the Base Commander Captain Douglas Beaver have allowed the asbestos-laden roofs to weep asbestos contamination off the roofs and into the groundwater leading directly to the nearby Chesapeake Bay.

Additionally, the roofing material containing asbestos has become so exposed over the last 20 years that winds off the Bay can actually propel asbestos-laden particles airborne. This toxic hazard can impact not only military service personnel and civilian employees on the base but also members of the general civilian population living around the perimeter neighborhoods in Norfolk. The toxic hazards posed by this asbestos seems to pale in comparison in the quest for lower operating budgets to enhance the chances for raises and career advancement for those in the chain-of-command at Naval Base Norfolk. You see, remediating a building that harbors asbestos costs big bucks and the Navy has chosen to simply ignore the threat to both the natural environment and people posed by the asbestos.

First, to remediate a roof containing asbestos means hiring a private contractor certified to handle hazardous material. The contractor would then "tent" the entire building to prevent the escape of asbestos by any means of transmission away from the work site. The asbestos would then be hauled to a landfill certified to bury hazardous waste like asbestos.

Speaking of the chain-of-command, the most important players in this tragedy seem to display a wanton disregard for President Obama’s Executive Order 13508—Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration. This EO was first published in 2009 and explicitly condemns any violations by military services of the air and water surrounding the Chesapeake Bay. The act stipulates that Captain Douglas Beaver is the individual charged with the enforcement of EO 13508. Several environmental groups have attempted to solicit information regarding the extent of buildings contributing to the toxic mess, but their efforts have been rebuffed by all.

One thing that the inquiries seem to have impacted was the career of Mr. Jerry Haste, a 39 year Public Works Department chief who abruptly retired on 3 Oct 16, some 30 days after receiving the first email asking for a list of all buildings on base containing asbestos. Now that OSHA has begun their formal investigation, Mr. Haste should have taken the advice of my dear, departed grandmother who always cautioned that, "You can run, but you can’t hide."

The OSHA investigation adds to the ongoing investigation by the Navy’s Inspector General Staff in DC, the NAVFAC Inspector General and the establishment of a Department of Justice file in DC.

We will issue updates as they are received from OSHA or the Navy’s IG team on this environmental catastrophe.

Obama / Castro
Marxists

Communists

Anarchists

The statements made by President-Elect Donald Trump and Hussein Obama show the contrast between the two men. Trump knows who America’s true allies are and who America's true enemies are. Unlike, Hussein Obama who sides with America's enemies and rejects America's allies. Trump spoke the truth about the brutal dictator Fidel Castro, whereas, Hussein Obama praises him.

Trump said:

"Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights."

"While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve," Trump said.

"Though the tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty," Trump said. "I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me, with the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba."

Hussein Obama: "At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans – in Cuba and in the United States – with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation," Obama said in a statement put out by the White House.

"History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him," Obama said.

"For nearly six decades, the relationship between the United States and Cuba was marked by discord and profound political disagreements," he said. "During my presidency, we have worked hard to put the past behind us, pursuing a future in which the relationship between our two countries is defined not by our differences but by the many things that we share as neighbors and friends – bonds of family, culture, commerce, and common humanity. This engagement includes the contributions of Cuban Americans, who have done so much for our country and who care deeply about their loved ones in Cuba."

The mistake America made by electing this POS, Community Agitator, Hussein Obama is coming to an end.

Amazing stats

Make sure you read to the bottom... An eye opener! (Or should be!)

1.

California

New Mexico

Mississippi

Alabama

Illinois

Kentucky

Ohio

New York

Maine

South Carolina

These 11 States now have More People on Welfare than they do Employed!!!

2.

Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2012, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. Household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support.

What's the problem with that much support?

Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day.

To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for 40 hour week, while the average job pays $24.00 an hour.

3.

A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization:

Percentage (%) of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:

U.S. 65%

England 46%

Canada 42%

% of patients diagnosed with diabetes -received treatment within 6 months:

U.S. 93%

England 15%

Canada 43%

% of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:

U.S. 90%

England 15%

Canada 43%

% referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:

U.S. 77%

England 40%

Canada 43%

Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:

U.S. 71

England 14

Canada 18

% of seniors (65+), with low income, who are in "excellent health":

U.S. 12%

England 2%

Canada 6%

And now…for the last statistic:

National Health Insurance?

U.S. NO

England YES

Canada YES

4.

Check the last set of statistics!!

The percentage of each past president's cabinet... who had worked in the private business sector...prior to their appointment to the cabinet.

You know what the private business sector is: a real-life business...not a government job.

Here are the percentages.

38% T. Roosevelt

40% Taft

52% Wilson

49% Harding

48% Coolidge

42% Hoover

50% F. D. Roosevelt

50% Truman

57% Eisenhower

30% Kennedy

47% Johnson

53% Nixon

42% Ford

32% Carter

56% Reagan

51% GH Bush

39% Clinton

55% GW Bush

8% Obama

This helps explain the bias, if not the incompetence, of this current administration: ONLY 8% of them...have ever worked in private business!

That's right!

Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents!

And these people are trying to tell our corporations how to run their business?

How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one?

Or about jobs when he has never really had one?

And, when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers?

They've spent most of their time in academia, government, and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers."

Thanks to Johnny BB for this post

Orlando

Another Moslem-in-Chief Obama 

Caused Hate Crime

His pro-moslem, anti-Christian 

Anti-heterosexual, pro gay/transgender

Policy was the sole cause of this taking of life. 

Obama learned to cry on cue following 

The Alinsky Playbook for world domination

What that Playbook taught Obama:

"True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties....

Of Means and Ends [Forget moral or ethical considerations]

"The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody." p.24

"The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…. The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be...." pp.25-26

The New York Post's take on Orlando

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The FBI  is NOT DEMANDING that Apple turnover a "thing" that exists

The standard that Apple should use for its opposing to the FBI request is found in the rules of set out in

I'm no constitutional attorney, but here's the nut of the Apple versus DOJ controversy to me.

The FBI (really the DOJ) is NOT DEMANDING that Apple turnover a "thing" that exists.

The DOJ is demanding that Apple CREATE A THING to help solve a case.

Add this issue to the well-known fact that the DoJ has steadfastly REFUSED TO RAID MOSQUES with a direct connection to terror attacks. The Boston Marathon bombing is the most vivid example. Both Tsarnaev brothers "prayed" at the Islamic Society of Boston. Did that mosque get raided after so many people were killed and maimed? Not on your life.

Until then, why should I support an organization clearly at the forefront of the domestic faux war on terror?

John P. Kuchta, Jr.

HCN Commentator: Looks simple enough. Slavery in the U.S. was done away with during the American civil war. What the DOJ is attempting to do is forced labor. Apple has the right to decline working for the government. If it wants to work for the government, it can under terms an conditions agreed to by Apple. What the DOJ is attempting to do violate Apple’s civil rights under the 5^th , 6^th, and 14^th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Apple has a right to ask to be paid for the work if it wants to do it. It has the right to ask for a large deposit up front for its contracted work. It also has the right to ask for damages that will result to the demised value of its product. That value is in the feature that made its product desirable and allowed Apple to be ahead of the curve with its competitors will be gone.

Obama's Navy lost to a second rate navy ???
The U.S. boats did not enter Iranian waters.

Obama and Kerry Lied

They were overtaken in international waters by Iranian patrol boats

The Iranian patrol boats were so superior in both speed and firepower to the U.S. boats that it became a "hands up!" situation, with automatic cannons in the 40mm to 76mm range pointed at them point-blank. 

Surrender, hands up, or be blown out of the water. I assume that the Iranians had an English speaker on a loudspeaker to make the demand. This takedown was no accident or coincidence, it was a planned slap across America's face.

Thomas Lipscomb:

ALL IS LOST--

. . . factional conflict between "citizens" with no concept of common or national interest.

50 years of the purposeful destruction of the public sector from education to its civil services into its own factional interests at the expense of the private sector, taxpayers and the ideal of the nation that once was, has been a catastrophe.

Thomas Lipscomb writes:

This morning's opposition between Bret Stephens and David Horowitz is just a tragic reminder of Vaclav Klaus's remarkable statement that any country can elect an idiot like Obama and he can only do so much harm. The REAL problem is an electorate so stupid that will elect a cipher like Obama.

A nation remains a nation, even under occupation, as long as it is led by patriots, not ideologues, who are deeply imbued with its traditions so that they can restore them to the abused people.

I saw an example of this in my friendship with Vaclav Havel. Shortly after he was elected after the Velvet Revolution I visited him in the Hrad and asked him what he was going to do. He had announced he was NOT going to retaliate against Czech Communists and he would just let them grow old in their dachas, plotting their return while the nation passed them by.

I had visited them there and amidst the soft plop of tennis balls on their estates and the Becherovka, plotting they were. But with Communism falling apart everywhere else... his timing was inspired.

Havel was roundly criticized for it by the many who wanted to get even, but he knew his people and feared the resulting factionalism and it worked.

"But what about the economy?" I asked. He hit the intercom and in a moment a man walked in who turned out to be someone who had had a brilliant career in investment banking in Europe during the Communist era. He also happened to be Prince Swartzenberg, the hereditary Prince of Bohemia.

Havel was learned and a student of his nation as well as a playboy and political dissident and playwright. He had thought long and hard about what steps were needed to restore what was of value in his national heritage. And it worked.

In today's United States, no one thinks long and hard about anything. And increasingly it doesn't work.

Now our electoral system seems to be about to give us a choice between General Boulanger and Lady MacBeth, as far as I am concerned the American Constitutional Republic is over.

A population with no idea of its history, traditions, or common interests is not a nation. It is a geographical territory lost to factional conflict between "citizens" with no concept of common or national interest. 50 years of the purposeful destruction of the public sector from education to its civil services into its own factional interests at the expense of the private sector, taxpayers and the ideal of the nation that once was, has been a catastrophe.

Extralegal "social justice" trumps every system of law we have in the country. "No justice, no peace" and "justice" is defined by the mob, not the courts these days, with the sympathetic coverage of the media. Mob rule whether BLM or idiotic college students is given validity at the expense of institutional values that took centuries to construct by trial and error. The "narrative" of what we should believe dominates reality and any attempt at understanding cause and effect.

The leaders of the public employees and teachers organizations have consistently been offshoots of the Frankfurt School of secular Jewish Marxist Europeans totally foreign and every bit as at war with American values of individual liberty and government restraint as ISIS. If there is a difference between the effect of Lenin's "sealed train" arriving at the Finland Station and the importation of the Frankfurt School bacillus, it is that the Frankfurt School has done far more harm to Western Civilization as Michael Walsh points out in his book, (ghosted by David Kahane).

And they have done their work well. Look at the Democratic Party. And look at the media in the United States which has degenerated into a support claque and propaganda outlet. They own it. No light can escape the lies of the black hole of their government as long as they do. And it wouldn't matter anyway, because the American people are too dumbed down to appreciate the problem and distracted by the ghastly popular culture which no longer evolves but only deteriorates into a portrait of a hipster Dorian Gray from the 1960s.

No longer does the big band era get replaced by pop and then rock in an exciting 30 year period. We are frozen in a 50 year old 1960s meme with 70 year old musicians doing farewell tours, except for the occasional illiterate black former or future convict backed up by a synthesizer. Art is frozen in abstraction only it has lost its aesthetic, and news as an ambition to achieve an accurate picture if not an accomplishment is totally replaced by fairy tale features.

The White House Press Correspondents Dinner has degenerated from a cynical meeting of sadder but wiser journalists into a three day press agents' red carpet opportunity for celebrities who haven't read a newspaper since they lost their subscription to My Weekly Reader.

We are buried alive in the New Left 60s because that is the world the Progressives love, and anyone who complains is buried in the cornfield just beyond it.

Confronted with the spectacle of the twilight of the Bourbons under Louis "apres moi le deluge" XV, Voltaire, first traveled a great deal gathering his thoughts and looking for an alternative to the gathering storm. He was encouraged by the Constitutional Monarchy he saw in England. But while he was able to win a case here and there, and had the pleasure of knowing almost every person of consequence in his world, all grappling with the catastrophe they saw brewing in the old order, he knew he was finally defeated by the time he met Franklin in Paris and became a Freemason.

His CANDIDE was a summary of the way that world looked to him.
Two young impressionable kids under the tutelage of a sanctimonious academic jackass whose ideas had no approximation in reality, launch out into a real world of rape, pillage and plunder, natural catastrophe, factionalism never dreamt of in Panglossian philosophy and end up fucked over and confused.

Sound familiar with our kids trying to make sense of our American education?

Unable to make any more sense of it than our kids can, much less affect it in any meaningful way, Candide decides to do something practical. "It is necessary to cultivate our garden" he concludes.

A lot of wisdom there in the world I find myself in as well.

So forgive me if I increasing choose to do the same

I am in awe that this had to be written.  I am further in awe that is was written.  I am not in disagreement with the message this gives.  I am in complete agreement with the message. There is much I could say about the message, adding my two cents worth. But why mess up a perfectly good message.  If you are not happy with yourself, fix yourself.

Dr. Piper does know the teachings of his church.  Others need to follow his example including the President of the United States.

Angie Summers of West Virginia Against Common Core with the help of the Thomas More Law Center is suing the state of West Virginia to challenge the constitutionality of the Common Core State Standards and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, late last week, filed a lawsuit against West Virginia Governor Earl Tomblin and several state officials to stop the state's implementation of Common Core and its participation in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium ("SBAC"). The lawsuit claims that West Virginia's funding and participation in Common Core violates the U.S. Constitution, as well as federal and state laws that prohibit the federal government from usurping control over public school education. The lawsuit was filed in the Kanawha Circuit Court in West Virginia on behalf of two West Virginia taxpayers.The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) is co-counsel in the case with D. John Sauer of the James Otis Law Group based in St. Louis, MO. Two prominent West Virginia attorneys, Jeffrey Kimble and Ryan Kennedy of Robinson & McElwee, PLLC, are assisting as local counsel.TMLC's lawsuit seeks to stop West Virginia's payment of membership fees totaling over $1.5 million per year on the grounds that SBAC, to which West Virginia is a member, is an unconstitutional compact because it was never approved by Congress. The Compact Clause of the United States Constitution provides that "[n]o state shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into any agreement or compact with another state."West Virginia's SBAC membership agreement forces West Virginia schools to align their curriculum with Common Core.  The two Plaintiffs named in the lawsuit, Angela Summers and Fred Dailey are prominent members of West Virginia Against Common Core and over the last two years have voiced deep concerns about their state's participation in Common Core.Summers has five grandchildren.  She began her battle against Common Core in 2013 over the new Common Core aligned math being taught to her grandchildren. Her concerns grew as she became aware of the federal government's intrusion into local classrooms, federalized collection of student data, and the requirement of excessive testing.  Summers says that the battle against Common Core is a battle "we cannot lose. If we lose, we will lose our children. If we lose our children, we will lose this nation."Dailey, who also has grandchildren, is an Environmental Engineer with a Master's degree. He worked as a Plant Manager for a major Chemical Manufacturing facility for 10 years prior to retiring. He explains one of his reasons for getting involved in the lawsuit, "I strongly believe that the education of our children is best done locally with choices made by parents, teachers, and locally elected Boards of Education."The Thomas More Law Center and Sauer filed a similar lawsuit on behalf of state taxpayers against North Dakota officials five months ago.  A decision in that case is still pending.Both the North Dakota and West Virginia lawsuits follow the success of a previous lawsuit filed by Mr. Sauer, that stopped Missouri's implementation of Common Core. That case is currently on appeal. The Thomas More Law Center filed a friend of the court brief in support of upholding the Missouri district court decision.Forty-three states initially joined either SBAC or the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers ("PARCC"), to implement Common Core under federal government oversight. However, several states have since canceled their membership due to growing opposition from parents and teachers.Click here to read the full complaint

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center commented on behalf of the Law Center, "The unspoken agenda of Common Core is to undermine the fundamental right of parents to control the education of their children. It's an insidious bureaucratic system in which the Federal Government takes control of what and how American students learn. Teachers who complain about the Common Core are muzzled by threats of discipline or dismissal."In school districts across the country, administrators subject children, who obey their parents' wishes and decline to participate in Common Core standardized testing, to unbelievable punishments. Students have been suspended, refused entrance into their classrooms, refused bathroom privileges, stripped of their academic and extracurricular honors and awards, removed  from athletic participation, and punished with "sit-and-stare" policies. "Sit-and-stare" is a practice that forces students to sit at their assigned desk with no materials, books, or paper in silence for multiple hours during testing.As a part of its efforts to help parents combat Common Core, the Thomas More Law Center developed a Test Refusal and Student Privacy Protection Form and a Common Core Resource Page as a general reference and guide.

The Thomas More Law Center defends and promotes America's Judeo-Christian heritage and moral values, including the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life. It supports a strong national defense and an independent and sovereign United States of America. The Law Center accomplishes its mission through litigation, education, and related activities. It does not charge for its services. The Law Center is supported by contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations, and is recognized by the IRS as a section 501(c)(3) organization. You may reach the Thomas More Law Center at (734) 827-2001 or visit our website at www.thomasmore.org.Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20151108/285019

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CONTACT: Catherine McMillan, Office: 734-827-2001, Cell: 734-255-2013, cmcmillan@thomasmore.org

SANS Institute Heads to Washington, D.C. for Final Training Event of the Year, SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2015

Offering New Advanced Courses in Active Defense & Offensive Countermeasures, IT Security Strategic Planning, ICS Active Defense, and Cyber Threat Intelligence

BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training, today announced its final security training event of the year, SANS Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI) 2015. Taking place in Washington, D.C. December 12 – 19, this hands-on immersion style training will provide attendees access to SANS' newest courses.

"One of my favorite aspects of CDI is that it's a great way to close out the year, building new skills that can be applied throughout the New Year to make an organization more secure," said Ed Skoudis, SANS Fellow.  "With the hands-on skills security professionals learn at CDI, they'll be ready to really make a difference in the security of their organization immediately after returning from the training."

SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2015 will feature an impressive list of more than 30 information security training courses for InfoSec professionals at every level. Attendees will learn how the newest cyber attacks work and what can be done to prevent them or mitigate the damage. They will also learn about the latest tools, and how to use them for finding, blocking and deciphering hacking attacks.

New courses that will be offered at CDI 2015 include:

• SEC550: Active Defense, Offensive Countermeasures and Cyber Deception is built from the ground up for defenders to quickly implement Active Defenses in their environments. 
• MGT514: IT Security Strategic Planning, Policy and Leadership addresses the growing need for next generation IT security leaders and offers actionable steps for how to become one.
• ICS515: ICS Active Defense and Incident Response will empower students with the ability to understand their networked industrial control system (ICS) environment, monitor it for threats, perform incident response against identified threats, and learn from interactions with the adversary to enhance network security.
• FOR578: Cyber Threat Intelligence will train security professionals and teams to detect, scope, and select resilient courses of action in response to such intrusions and data breaches. (Sold out – waitlisted)

For additional information on SANS CDI 2015, including a full list of courses, or to register, please visit: www.sans.org/u/9yM

About SANS Institute
The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. SANS is the most trusted and, by far, the largest provider of cyber security training and certification to professionals at governments and commercial institutions world-wide. Renowned SANS instructors teach over 50 different courses at more than 200 live cyber security training events as well as online. GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, validates employee qualifications via 27 hands-on, technical certifications in information security. The SANS Technology Institute, a regionally accredited independent subsidiary, offers master's degrees in cyber security. SANS offers a myriad of free resources to the InfoSec community including consensus projects, research reports, and newsletters; it also operates the Internet's early warning system--the Internet Storm Center. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners, representing varied global organizations from corporations to universities, working together to help the entire information security community. (www.SANS.org)

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CONTACT: Julie Akstin-Dearing, JABB Communications for SANS, dearing@jabbcomm.com, 713-201-9000

Another Organized crime boss Obama’s success in raising crimes committed by blacks

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F.B.I. Chief Links Scrutiny of Police With Rise in Violent Crime*

CHICAGO — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said on Friday that the additional scrutiny and criticism of police officers in the wake of highly publicized episodes of police brutality may have led to an increase in violent crime in some cities as officers have become less aggressive.

With his remarks, Mr. Comey lent the prestige of the F.B.I., the nation’s most prominent law enforcement agency, to a theory that is far from settled: that the increased attention on the police has made officers less aggressive and emboldened criminals. But he acknowledged that there is so far no data to back up his assertion and that it may be just one of many factors that are contributing to the rise in crime, like cheaper drugs and an increase in criminals who are being released from prison.

“I don’t know whether that explains it entirely, but I do have a strong sense that some part of the explanation is a chill wind that has blown through American law enforcement over the last year,” Mr. Comey said in a speech at the University of Chicago Law School.

Mr. Comey’s remarks caught officials by surprise at the Justice Department, where his views are not shared at the top levels. Holding the police accountable for civil rights violations has been a top priority at the department in recent years, and some senior officials do not believe that scrutiny of police officers has led to an increase in crime. While the department had no immediate comment on Friday, several officials privately fumed at Mr. Comey’s suggestion.

Among the nation’s law enforcement officials, there is sharp disagreement over whether there is any credence to the so-called Ferguson effect, which refers to the protests that erupted in the summer of 2014 in Ferguson, Mo., over a police shooting.

In Oakland, Calif., for example, homicides are on the rise after two years of decline. But shootings are down, and the overall crime rate is about the same, said Oakland’s police chief, Sean Whent. “Our officers are very, very sensitive to the climate right now, but I haven’t seen any evidence to say our officers aren’t doing their jobs,” Chief Whent said.

In Washington, homicides are also up, but violent crime and crime over all are down, said Lt. Sean Conboy, a police spokesman. “Trying to correlate it to a Ferguson effect, I don’t believe is appropriate,” Lieutenant Conboy said.

After civil rights leaders and the Justice Department accused the Seattle Police Department of discriminatory policing and excessive force, the number of officer-instigated stops declined and crime ticked upward, said Kathleen O’Toole, the police chief.

Chief O’Toole said it was up to police leaders to insist on reversing that trend. The critiques made the department better, she said. Crime is down this year, and her city has hosted police officials from places such as Baltimore wanting to understand why.

“There’s never been as much scrutiny on police officers as there is now,” Chief O’Toole said. “We should embrace it.”

But Mr. Comey said that he had been told by many police leaders that officers who would normally stop to question suspicious people are opting to stay in their patrol cars for fear of having their encounters become worldwide video sensations. That hesitancy has led to missed opportunities to apprehend suspects, he said, and has decreased the police presence on the streets of the country’s most violent cities.

“I’ve been told by a senior police leader who urged his force to remember that their political leadership has no tolerance for a viral video,” Mr. Comey said, adding that many leaders and officers whom he had spoken to said they were afraid to address the issue publicly.

“Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close ‘What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o’clock in the morning’ policing,” Mr. Comey said. “We need to be careful it doesn’t drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.”

But investigations by the Justice Department have given weight to the loudest criticisms of police behavior in Ferguson and elsewhere. Those inquiries have found that many officers unfairly singled out African-Americans for stops and arrests, and too often used force that was unjustified. Videos of deadly encounters with the police in cities such as Cleveland, New York and North Charleston, S.C., have fueled that criticism.

More than his predecessors, Mr. Comey has used his position as one of the nation’s top law enforcement officials to bring attention to issues that state and local police departments are confronting. It is not clear what impact he will be able to have on the issue. He said that the remedies to the problem were not clear, and that law enforcement authorities needed to have better data about crime and shootings involving police officers.

Mr. Comey, who was in Chicago for the annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, plans to address the issue with law enforcement leaders.

In February, Mr. Comey delivered an unusually candid speech at Georgetown University about the difficult relationship between the police and African-Americans. Some officers, he said, scrutinize minorities more closely using a mental shortcut that “becomes almost irresistible and maybe even rational by some lights” because black men are arrested at much higher rates than white men.

Mr. Comey said that without more reliable data, the task of identifying trends and remedies to fix them is far more challenging. He said state and local law enforcement officials were increasingly open to providing the F.B.I. with better data so it can more accurately chart trends.

“ ‘Data’ is a dry word, but we need better data,” Mr. Comey said. “And people tend to tune out when you start to talk about it, but it’s important, because it gives us the full picture of what’s happening.”

Booker T. Washington identifies Portsmouth's Race Baiting Foursome

On the Portsmouth City Council

The Pilot covers it up with PC coveraage

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs."

Booker T. Washington

Page 430

Volume 1, 1900 Autobiographical Writings

The Booker T. Washington Papers

University of Illinois Press, 1972

Louis R. Harlan, Editor

John W. Blallingame, Assistant Editor

 http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.1/html/430.html

Click on the Pilot 1903 page to see its PC coverage of Portsmouth race baiting

Note that in 1903 The Pilot declared itself the paper of the Democrats

Nothing has changed since ,except there are few whites in management or staff