It's All Dependent Upon The Design Point

 In Seattle in the last couple days an inquest into a police incident has just been completed.

Not to anyone's surprise, the inquest found that police had acted appropriately when they pumped 7 bullets into a pregnant black woman in her apartment and in front of several of her children.

The reason for that appropriate fusillade was given as the cops felt threatened because the woman was brandishing a small pocketknife.

I never heard whether she had deployed a blade or just had a closed knife.

No matter: 7 bullets neutralized her.

And that was appropriate, according to the inquest.

And the inquest was correct.

It's all a matter of design point.

The police apparatus in America has always had one purpose: to control, subjugate, neutralize and/or eliminate undesirable elements.

The arbiters of desirability have always been few in number: they are old white money; however, there is a fairly large secondary component to that arbiter class: all the other white people who feel threatened by "the other" or "those people"; all the members of the cult know who "they" are.

To that end police forces have always been paramilitary organizations.

And, over the last few decades, they have become less "para" and more "military".

So, is it any surprise that nonwhite people keep coming out of routine encounters with the cops as dead nonwhite people?

It's all in the design point.

So, let's knock off the charade, cease with the inquests, drop the hand wringing and acknowledge that mass carnage is what is wanted from the cops.

The continued design point of the institution belies any feigned activity to the contrary.