Kaye Beach
Oct 24, 2012
USA Today published this story, ‘Police group receives donation from Taser stun-gun maker’ on Oct 22, 2012. It is about the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) accepting a 300,000 donation from the foundation associated with Taser International which raises serious concerns since this organization has great influence over police department policy nation wide.
The IACP is an international, non governmental organization. Some of the activities of the IACP include submitting legislation, lobbying and testifying before Congress, doing research and policy development, setting professional standards and providing accreditation for US police departments. The IACP promotes and writes guidelines for police technology, trains and educates law enforcement as well as managing and administering numerous programs for the federal government.
Of course the IACP denies that the money curries any favor with them but consider what a notorious anti-gun foundation bought for their cause with the IACP in 2007. (below)
Police group receives donation from Taser stun-gun maker
by Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY
Published: 10/22/2012 12:19am
WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest association of police chiefs, which has advised thousands of its members on the appropriate use of stun guns, accepted a $300,000 donation from the foundation associated with Taser International, the biggest supplier of stun guns to law enforcement.
The contribution to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Foundation (IACP), the organization’s philanthropic arm, represents the latest in a series of controversial relationships Taser has established with police, the primary source of the Arizona-based company’s lucrative business.
. . .IACP and Taser officials said they found nothing wrong with the gift. . .But law enforcement and criminal justice analysts said the donation raises questions about the IACP’s ability to engage in future reviews involving the technology and whether the contribution represented a de-facto endorsement.
In 2007, another Foundation supplied the IACP with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The IACP, with support from the Joyce Foundation, a notorious anti-gun organization, held a national firearm violence summit in Chicago, “to address the issue fully and create a viable national strategy” for gun control.
Press release http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1470&issue_id=42008
The Joyce Foundation got what they paid for as their anti-gun philosophy has been enshrined in IACP policy which informs many police departments across the nation. (See the 2007 IACP Great Lakes Summit on Reducing Gun Violence. Link)
“The Joyce Foundation has pumped tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of gun ban groups over the years. The Violence Policy Center (VPC), an unashamed promoter of a total ban on handguns, collected more than $1 million of Joyce money just in 2005 and 2006. In 2000, the Joyce Foundation paid a VPC advisor and former Handgun Control, Inc. board member to edit a “Second Amendment Symposium” issue of the Chicago-Kent Law Review. That slim volume contains nearly half the anti-individual rights articles ever published on the Second Amendment.
The IACP newsletter proudly notes that the Joyce Foundation has “made more than $30 million in grants to groups seeking public health solutions that offer the promise of reducing gun deaths and injuries in America.”
This year, the Joyce Foundation invested heavily in IACP. They paid IACP over $500,000 to host “The Great Lakes States Summit on Gun Violence,” and then to issue the report from the conference. That comes out to nearly $11,000 per page, but the Joyce Foundation got what it paid for. . .”
Chris W. Cox, Follow the Money, Nov. 15, 2007 wwwnraila.org
The IACP hasn’t been resting on its laurels since 2007 either. In 2011 the organization, in conjunction with the Joyce Foundation, produced this guidebook; Reducing Gun Violence in Our Communities Leadership Guide for Law Enforcement on Effective strategies and Programs
http://www.theiacp.org/Portals/0/pdfs/GunViolenceReductionGuide2011.pdf
The IACP also provides this eye popping checklist of goals and tasks to help law enforcement agencies measure their progress in the IACP’s recommended gun control efforts.
http://www.theiacp.org/Portals/0/pdfs/GVR_page-2_TAS-Planning-Guide.pdf
There has been a great paradigm shift in our nation since 9-11 that spans all agencies of government. This shift affects every aspect of our lives and has practically decimated the Constitution and Bill of Rights. US citizens, regardless of their political persuasion, are united in astonishment as they witness the slash and burn abrogation of one cherished right after another.
There is no sector of our society left untouched by the new paradigm and each has its own specialists attending to the transformation in their particular realm. In the realm of policing, it is the IACP who is in charge of nurturing and tending this transformation.
AxXiom for Liberty 