Even as President Obama claims that his anti-police policies have not increased risk to police around the nation, new stats revealed yesterday show that s just not the case. According to Obama s own Justice Department, his DOJ s "surprise assaults" on police skyrocketed 25% in the period 2008 to 2013.
00:00:00.000Even as President Obama claims that his anti-police policies have not increased risk to police officer around the nation, new stats revealed yesterday show that's just not the case.
00:00:11.000According to Obama's own Justice Department, his DOJ, quote, surprise assaults, that's what they're calling them, ambush assaults on police skyrocketed 25% in the period 2008 to 2013 over the 10-year period preceding Obama's administration.
00:00:27.000Ronald Davis is the Director of Community-Oriented Policing at the Justice Department, and he told the LA Times, quote, Yeah, you would think.
00:00:34.000And just yesterday, the head of the FBI admitted that cell phone footage targeting cops had created an upswing in violence against the cops.
00:00:50.000The White House, of course, quickly said this wasn't the case because why would it make people attack cops if there are all sorts of videos that are targeting cops around?
00:00:57.000I mean, it's not like other videos have ever caused violence, like YouTube videos causing terrorist attacks or anything.
00:01:03.000The White House continues to push policies, meanwhile, that do nothing to reduce violence in communities or against police.
00:01:09.000The Department of Justice study found that community policing accomplished little, actually almost nothing, in terms of reducing ambushes against police.
00:01:19.000To have more cops on the ground in areas with high crime, hanging out with the people, and living in the communities, this has always been the leftist ideal for policing.
00:01:26.000They just have to be part of the community, they can't be outsiders.
00:01:29.000Turns out, when they're not outsiders, they get shot more often.
00:01:32.000Well, naturally, the DOJ immediately dismissed this finding, because when statistics show that your theory is stupid, you just get rid of the statistics.
00:01:40.000So, here's what the DOJ actually wrote.
00:01:44.000It is not within the realm of any plausible theory that community-oriented policing is a contributing factor to violence against the police.
00:02:33.000His face continued moving, and he said, quote, We, as a society, particularly given our history, have to take Black Lives Matter complaints seriously.
00:02:41.000The African American community is not just making this up.
00:02:44.000This, of course, being police racism and brutality.
00:03:45.000It's the day of the Republican presidential debate, third Republican presidential debate.
00:03:49.000I don't want to talk about it too much, because by the time you watch this, the debate may very well be going on, and Donald Trump may have set his hair on fire, or Ben Carson may have decided that he's just bored with all of this and started singing to himself, or John Kasich may have actually just eaten a landmine and gone up in a puff of glory.
00:04:08.000I will briefly say that there are a few questions that do have to be answered in this third presidential debate.
00:04:13.000And this will still be relevant tomorrow when you watch this, and you'll know whether or not these questions were answered.
00:04:18.000I'll say that the big question going into the third presidential debate is, can Donald Trump rebound?
00:04:22.000Because right now, Ben Carson is suddenly leading by double digits in Iowa.
00:04:26.000Suddenly, Ben Carson in the CBS New York Times poll, at least, is leading by four over Donald Trump nationally.
00:04:32.000That is within the margin of error, but he is leading.
00:04:36.000It'll have to be answered whether Donald Trump is capable of winning a race that he's not winning the whole time.
00:04:41.000Donald Trump is sort of the Charlie Sheen of politics.
00:04:43.000He always has to be hashtag winning, and if he isn't hashtag winning, then he's hashtag losing.
00:04:48.000And the question is, can he bounce back?
00:04:49.000Bounce back is not Trump's big thing, right?
00:04:52.000Being the frontrunner is Trump's big thing, and that's why he spent most of today leading up to the debate talking about how the debate was going to be unfair, and how it was going to be stacked against him, and how the polls weren't true, and all the rest of this sort of thing, because
00:05:04.000If Donald Trump were to say, yeah, you know, the polls are what the polls are, and here are my policies, we'd actually have to listen to his policies.
00:05:10.000The tacit promise of the Trump campaign is, I win at everything, make me president, and America will win at everything.
00:05:18.000That only works so long as you're winning at everything.
00:05:20.000The moment you start to trail in the polls, then the God bleeds, as we said yesterday, and you got a problem on your hands.
00:05:25.000That's question number one that's going to be answered.
00:05:32.000If he's too aggressive, then he's going to look as though he's getting desperate, which is the last thing that he wants because Trump desperate looks very much like Trump not desperate, but people will assume that he is desperate and only doing this because he's fallen behind.
00:05:48.000In the debate, I would suggest that he's going to get hit with a lot of questions because suddenly he's the frontrunner.
00:05:54.000Carson is not the most fluid guy on his feet, particularly on economic policy.
00:06:38.000is seen by most people as the presumptive frontrunner even though he is not letting single pole all the way through he's the most quote-unquote legit guy in the top four and that means that people are saying that if their Jeb Bush drops out Marco Rubio will take his place at the front of the polls
00:06:54.000Tonight, I would assume that Rubio will get hit from a number of angles.
00:06:57.000If that happens, he's a good counterpuncher.
00:06:59.000The problem is Republicans don't need a counterpuncher in the general election.
00:07:18.000He's never going to be able to be hit hard because he's very smooth.
00:07:21.000He sticks, he moves, but he also doesn't throw a real hard right.
00:07:24.000And because Marco Rubio doesn't throw a hard right, it's going to be very difficult for him to defeat somebody like Hillary Clinton, who is by nature both aggressive and a counter puncher.
00:07:32.000So you actually need somebody who will be aggressive with Hillary Clinton.
00:08:51.000It's a, it's a, all you need is basically a ball that could be made out of anything, and a couple of old Coke cans, and you've got the goal.
00:08:59.000It's, it's really dumb, and we all pretend to care about it, and then we double pretend to care about it when it's the women's national soccer team.
00:09:04.000That's when we super pretend to care about it.
00:09:06.000Like, we're into women's soccer for five seconds, and it's during the Women's World Cup, which we don't care about in any way, shape, or form, but Brandi Chastain, one time, she took off her shirt after she scored a girl, a goal, and everybody was like, woo!
00:09:18.000And then everybody's into soccer, women's soccer every four years, and then they tried to start a women's soccer league, and that's been about as successful as the WNBA.
00:09:25.000There just aren't enough lesbians in the United States to sustain interest in women's soccer.
00:09:30.000There's a difference between girls' soccer, watching your daughter play soccer, and watching women's soccer.
00:09:33.000I'll watch my daughter do just about anything.
00:09:48.000I love when the left pretends that they care about America and they're patriotic.
00:09:51.000Not true in war, but true during the Women's World Cup.
00:09:54.000So Obama has the Women's National Soccer Team to the White House and here is President Obama gushing about the Women's National Soccer Team.
00:10:03.000This team taught all America's children
00:10:06.000That playing like a girl means you're a badass.
00:10:56.000Okay, that's like saying that I am the leading scorer of all time in my Jewish basketball league.
00:11:20.000Okay, like, it may very well be true, but then if you add in parentheses, in my Jewish Basketball League, and also any other league, that would sort of imply I'm better than LeBron James.
00:11:51.000But this idea that girls have to feel inferior if we tell them the truth, which is that girls, as a general matter, are not as good at sports as men because men have greater upper body strength and also greater lower body strength and also are stronger and made larger because of sexual dimorphism.
00:12:06.000I mean, I'm sorry, but truth is truth, and you're just setting people up for a fall, because I promise you that when you tell your little girl you're just as good as the boys, and even if you're a great pitcher, like Monet Davis, right?
00:12:17.000You played in the Little League World Series, and you're this girl, and I don't throw like a girl, I throw like a boy.
00:13:18.000And the fact is that if you ever put that back-to-back with George W. Bush throwing a pitch, this is not a referendum on masculinity, although I have a feeling that George W. Bush is somewhat more masculine than Barack Obama in a variety of ways.
00:13:31.000The fact that, you know, this is... I'm gonna hear from him about what it means to be an athletic badass.
00:14:50.000Rene Richards was a non-ranked male player, had a sex change, and became a top 10 female player immediately.
00:14:57.000There's a reason that Ronda Rousey, who's a terrific female fighter, will not fight Fallon Fox, who is a male-to-female transgender, because Fallon Fox is built and looks like a dude.
00:15:07.000Every so often we have to have these sort of truth checks, and it's important to do these because the President of the United States participates in lies on a regular basis.
00:16:10.000So President Obama basically says, the cops are great, but, and here's the big but, as President Obama has said about his wife, he says this about racial profiling.
00:16:26.000I confessed, I told Chief Beck, most of the time I got a ticket, I deserved it.
00:16:40.000We're going to talk about President Obama and him being racially profiled.
00:16:43.000He's said this before, and it's so stupid.
00:16:46.000He's said before that he's been pulled over driving while black.
00:16:49.000Michelle Obama, if you remember, she actually said recently that she went out as First Lady into the world and she was walking around a store alone.
00:16:59.000If you're First Lady, you have security at all times.
00:17:01.000And she said that a woman asked her to take something down from a shelf, because Michelle Obama is 8 feet tall.
00:17:05.000And this lady asked her to take down something from the shelf.
00:17:08.000And Michelle Obama actually, she actually later said that was evidence of racism, when she asked an 8 foot tall white woman to take something down off the shelf.
00:17:16.000Which is a couple years earlier on Letterman.
00:17:18.000She had talked about that exact same incident, but she had said it was charming the lady asked her to take something off the shelf because she didn't recognize her.
00:17:24.000President Obama here, he says that he's been driving many times and he's been pulled over for no reason and it must be because he was black.
00:17:30.000Okay, I'm gonna channel Adam Carolla here for a second.
00:17:33.000It turns out sometimes cops are just jerks.
00:17:36.000I've been pulled over probably more than most black people in the United States.
00:17:40.000I have more traffic tickets than pretty much anyone.
00:17:42.000The last couple of years I haven't had anybody because I got caught at 113.
00:17:50.000Just before they caught me at 113, I was going 128 in a Honda Accord down the I-5 from Sacramento to Los Angeles.
00:17:57.000I was doing NASCAR driving in a Honda Accord, which is ridiculous, because I own a Mustang GT convertible V8.
00:18:05.000But if you're going to pick a car to speed in, I figured, OK, go for the Honda Accord, which makes no sense.
00:18:09.000But after that, I decided, after I had to actually travel back up to the middle of nowhere to have a judge yell at me, I decided I didn't want any more traffic tickets.
00:18:18.000But I've been pulled over an enormous number of times.
00:18:20.000And sometimes it's justified, like that time.
00:18:22.000And sometimes it's because I'm over here on Hazeltine, and I'm going 42 in a 35 zone, and the cops have a speed trap because they want to collect money.
00:18:30.000It turns out that lots of people get pulled over for lots of reasons.
00:18:33.000And this idea that racial profiling of black- every black man has expressed racial profiling, you can't say that that's not happened to every black- I can say it's not- it has not happened to every black man.
00:18:42.000It may have happened to some black people.
00:18:45.000Although that would require a crystal ball and a fair bit of mind reading.
00:18:48.000But I can guarantee you it has not happened to every black person.
00:18:51.000I'm getting kind of sick and tired of this routine that every black person has been victimized by the police and they're the only people victimized by police are black folks.
00:19:01.000And the fact is that when the President of the United States suggests that every black person has been victimized by the police, is he then so surprised that black people might have nasty feelings about police officers?
00:19:12.000By the way, New Jersey, the perfect example, New Jersey, they had a study.
00:19:16.000And the study was that officers were pulling over black people more often than white people.
00:19:21.000So they did a second study to measure how fast black drivers were going.
00:19:25.000It turned out that on average black drivers were driving 10 miles an hour fast, faster than their white counterparts.
00:19:31.000And they were actually being pulled over at less than that rate.
00:19:33.000So in other words, black people weren't being pulled over enough.
00:19:36.000So it depends on where you're talking about, it depends on what the purpose of the pullover is, and you always have to check to make sure that you're comparing apples to apples because it turns out in some areas black people might be pulled over more than white people because they drive faster than white people.
00:19:49.000And that probably has, not probably, it certainly has nothing to do with race, but it probably has to do more with income.
00:19:54.000People tend to drive faster if they're lower income.
00:19:57.000And ethnicity, unfortunately, tends to correlate with high income versus low income in certain areas of American life.
00:20:02.000We'll continue with President Obama's idiotic take on how he was a victim of racism in his native Hawaii.
00:20:20.000No one has a car at Harvard Law School.
00:20:22.000In fact, the administration tells you not to buy a car at Harvard Law School.
00:20:26.000So unless he was getting pulled over in the south side of Chicago for being black, which I significantly doubt, he's talking about his brutal childhood racist experiences in Hawaii, where there are 10 white people.
00:20:38.000So here's the president of the United States continuing along these lines.
00:20:44.000And as a report that came out just this week reminded us, there are a lot of African Americans, not just me, who have that same kind of story of being pulled over or frisked or something.
00:20:59.000And the data shows that this is not an aberration.
00:21:09.000It doesn't mean each case is a problem.
00:21:12.000It means that when you aggregate all the cases and you look at it, you've got to say that there's some racial bias.
00:21:48.000If you just said, in the aggregate, there is some evidence of racial bias...
00:21:53.000Okay, maybe, although it depends on the data set that you're looking at and it depends on how broad and deep the data are.
00:22:00.000But if you preface that statement with a full explanation about how you personally were pulled over for driving while black, nobody's gonna hear that every incident isn't a driving while black incident.
00:22:11.000And by the way, if you're not gonna cite statistics, then at least wouldn't it be good if the president said, okay, as a rule of thumb, 95% of pullovers are not racially biased and 5% are.
00:22:22.000But the way that he says this, you would assume, because he just said it, that virtually all pullovers are racially biased, and the only ones that aren't are aberrations.
00:23:21.000So he says there at the very end, it's so funny because what he'll do is he'll say something as egregious as basically all the police are racist and then he tries to buy it back because there's racism on both sides.
00:23:31.000And he says that bias exists on both sides and there are things that we can do about it.
00:23:35.000And then he proceeds to suggest zero things that can be done by black people about bias against, for example, white officers.
00:23:42.000The rest of the speech is about how the police officers are terrible.
00:23:45.000Okay, if we're going to talk about leading threats to young black men in America today, police officers are about number 97.
00:23:52.000The number one threat to young black men growing up in America today is other young black men, statistically speaking.
00:23:58.000Statistically speaking, the leading obstacle to a young black man growing up to be an old black man is another young black man killing that young black man.
00:24:06.000It's sad, and it's tragic, and it has nothing to do with the police.
00:24:10.000But the President of the United States has to push this racial narrative because he's a politician first and he's a leftist first.
00:24:16.000And his leftism means that he will even allow and promulgate black suffering in order to push the idea that we have to overthrow law and order on behalf of a faux racial equality that
00:25:25.000And I did not think in the course of seven years that the President of the United States could take the country down this dark a path this quickly.
00:25:41.000And President Obama is basically an elected dictator.
00:25:43.000So, he's been talking a lot about gun confiscation.
00:25:46.000But President Obama does what leftists always do.
00:25:48.000He lies about what his ultimate agenda is.
00:25:51.000Because if leftists ever told you what their ultimate agenda was, everybody would shudder.
00:25:56.000It's true of the police here, by the way.
00:25:57.000If President Obama were ever to say, my ultimate agenda is to quash the capacity of the police to police crime in the name of racial equality, everybody would go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:26:13.000But, when the President of the United States did the same thing with regard to guns yesterday, here is President Obama talking about firearms and it's all just, all this stuff about, all this stuff about people wanting to take away guns, just crazy talk.
00:26:30.000You know, if some of you, you know, are watching certain television stations or listening to certain radio programs, please do not believe this notion that somehow I'm out to take everybody's guns away
00:26:43.000Every time a mass shooting happens, one of the saddest ironies is suddenly the purchase of firearms and ammunition jumps up because folks are scared into thinking that Obama's going to use this as an excuse to take away our Second Amendment rights.
00:27:02.000We're talking about common sense measures to make sure criminals don't get them, to make sure background checks work.
00:27:10.000President Obama, how do you know when President Obama is lying, his mouth is moving?
00:27:13.000Okay, when the President of the United States says that we're all just crazy.
00:27:19.000We're all just crazy for going out and stockpiling ammo and guns every time there's a mass shooting.
00:27:23.000First of all, there are two reasons that people do this.
00:27:25.000The first reason is the reason that I bought a handgun after the Charlie Hebdo shooting in France.
00:27:29.000And that is, if somebody is to come after me, I would like the capacity to shoot them.
00:27:35.000In Israel, by the way, they've seen a huge run on guns since knife attacks started on the Jews, and this is because people would like to actually have the capacity for self-defense.
00:27:44.000One of the reasons the gun sales spike every time there's a mass shooting is because he won't shut his face.
00:27:48.000Because President Obama, every time there's a mass shooting, he does exactly what politicians in Australia and Britain did, which is he says, we need to take all the guns.
00:27:57.000You know, President Obama, he said, I just want common sense gun measures.
00:28:00.000Really, Mr. President, what would those be?
00:28:03.000What would the common-sense gun measures be that would stop mass shootings?
00:28:06.000Whenever your leftist friends, and you shouldn't have leftist friends, folks, because they're bad people, but if you do have leftist friends, because you haven't taken my advice yet, please, next time your leftist friend says common-sense gun measures to stop mass shootings, ask them, what is the measure?
00:28:53.000Here's another rule of thumb for you when dealing with the left.
00:28:56.000So our first rule of thumb for the day here on The Ben Shapiro Show, lesson one was, if someone has a sentence with the word but in it, nothing preceding the but matters.
00:29:04.000The second rule of the day here on The Ben Shapiro Show is that the left will never tell you their ultimate goal.
00:29:10.000They will instead tell you that they just want small incremental change.
00:29:14.000And you can see it in every issue, every area of American life.
00:29:17.000The perfect example, of course, is same-sex marriage.
00:29:20.000You remember back to a time, this is during my lifetime, when the homosexual community said, all we want is to be left alone.
00:29:26.000All we want is to not be prosecuted for having sex with each other.
00:29:32.000We haven't been doing that for decades in the country, but sure, sounds good.
00:29:36.000And they said, well, I promise you, that's all.
00:29:38.000You know, we understand that the institution of Western civilization is built on the bedrock of male-female relationships.
00:29:45.000We're not going to do anything crazy like claim that male-male relationships are equally as valuable.
00:29:50.000And then, within five years, there was a call for civil unions.
00:29:53.000Well, you see, it's unreasonable if there are two men who are living together that they shouldn't have the same legal benefits as a man and a woman living together.
00:29:59.000I mean, after all, we could sign a document with each other.
00:30:02.000It's called a will, or we could sign a living trust, and we could do all the documentation.
00:30:05.000We shouldn't have to do that, because that's discrimination.
00:30:23.000Even though we can't have kids, and even though marriage is built upon the foundation of having children, even though that's true, it's just discrimination because there are alternative forms of family.
00:30:36.000Nothing in your life will ever be affected.
00:30:38.000Once we have gay marriage, we'll leave you alone.
00:30:41.000But, it would be good if you have a bakery, and you're religious.
00:30:47.000If we could force you to cater our gay wedding.
00:30:49.000That would be awesome, if we could force you to cater our gay wedding.
00:30:52.000But I promise you, that if you don't cater the gay wedding, it's not like we'll ever call for prosecution and jailing of you.
00:30:59.000Except if we decide that that's really discrimination under the Civil Rights Act and we call for criminal violations and then we pass some civil rights laws that require you to be thrown in jail if you don't, in fact, serve us as we demand to be served.
00:31:11.000It's always an evolution for the left.
00:31:13.000If the left had said in 1988, not just, we don't want to be prosecuted for having sex with members of the same sex, but we want to prosecute you for not giving us
00:31:23.000Service not because we're gay but because for participating in our gay orgy over here or a gay wedding over here We want to sue you for that because you would participate in a straight orgy or a straight wedding So no discrimination if they'd said that back in 1987 1988 everybody would have gone what?
00:31:38.000Well, the same thing is happening now on guns.
00:31:40.000The left always has to approach these issues incrementally.
00:31:47.000If you got President Obama, I promise you, among a group of his friends, and you said to him, would it be a better country if guns just disappeared?
00:32:15.000Obama would tell you yes, because he thinks that Israel is an obstacle to peace.
00:32:20.000And the left always has utopian ideals, they just won't tell them to you.
00:32:23.000Because the left is basically engaged in a very rudimentary dating strategy.
00:32:27.000When you first date somebody, you don't let all your crazy out at once, right?
00:32:31.000You appear calm and collected and cool, and then over time, your spouse gets to know you, and they realize, oh boy, what did I get myself into?
00:32:38.000And by then it's too late, because they're locked in.
00:32:40.000That's pretty much leftism in America.
00:32:42.000They're dating us, but we'll only know that we've been screwed after we've been screwed, unfortunately.
00:32:48.000Okay, and now I want to close with this here at the end of the Ben Shapiro show.
00:33:09.000The teacher comes in, he overturns the desk, or the officer comes in, overturns the desk, and he's called racist for doing this.
00:33:16.000There's a new video that shows that the girl in question threw a punch at him for what that's worth, but she knows she's an innocent in all of this.
00:33:23.000Also, it turns out that this racist, deeply racist police officer
00:33:26.000It turns out that he is, in fact, dating a black girl.
00:33:41.000He's more irrelevant than Jim Gilmore.
00:33:43.000He's a really, really ticked-off troll.
00:33:46.000And John Kasich yesterday had this to say about Donald Trump and Ben Carson, and I think it's worthwhile playing this because if you want to know
00:33:53.000Do you know how crazy this election is?
00:34:11.000We got one candidate that says that we ought to abolish Medicaid and Medicare.
00:34:17.000You ever heard of anything so crazy as that?
00:34:19.000Telling our people in this country who are seniors or about to be seniors that we're going to abolish Medicaid and Medicare?
00:34:27.000We got one person saying we ought to have a 10% flat tax that will drive up the deficit in this country by trillions of dollars that my daughters will spend the rest of their lives having to pay off.
00:34:37.000You know what I say to them is, why don't we have no taxes?
00:34:39.000Just get rid of them all, and then a chicken in every pot on top of it.
00:34:43.000We got one guy that says we ought to take 10 or 11 million people and pick them up.
00:36:37.000I don't know that, because in terms of the demographics, of how popular she is in the minority community... Do you think it's possible that Bernie Sanders could win the nomination?
00:36:55.000Everyone is fabulous, including, by the way, she mentions Bernie Sanders there.
00:36:58.000Bernie Sanders, quote from 1985, for all you people who are real enthused about Bernie Sanders out there, quote from 1985, Bernie Sanders, in 1961, America invaded Cuba and everyone was totally convinced Castro was the worst guy in the world.
00:37:11.000All the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Castro.
00:37:23.000The Republicans, as John Kasich says, were the ones who are totally crazy.
00:37:27.000Well, have a good time at the debate tonight.
00:37:28.000We'll be live blogging it over at Daily Wire, so make sure that you head over to dailywire.com to check out the live blog.
00:37:34.000And we'll be back here on The Ben Shapiro Show tomorrow to recap all of the fun, all of the action, if, in fact, I survive two hours of this debate.
00:37:43.000Oh, the sacrifices I make for you people.