Are Cons Coming to Terms With Racism in American Policing?

Darth Hussein Omar said:
Never. Too many people have a stake in it.
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Or, too many people are still racists.

It's strange listening to you guys. It actually gives me little hope that the issue will ever be solved, because w/ so much denial and inability to listen, it doesn't seem possible to have an honest dialogue on the topic. Which is what we need.
 
Thing1 said:
Or, too many people are still racists.

It's strange listening to you guys. It actually gives me little hope that the issue will ever be solved, because w/ so much denial and inability to listen, it doesn't seem possible to have an honest dialogue on the topic. Which is what we need.
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Ascribing everything annoying or inconvenient to racism doesn't help.

Have you ever considered stopping?
 
Taft2016 said:
Ascribing everything annoying or inconvenient to racism doesn't help.

Have you ever considered stopping?
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Have you ever considered that unloading 4 bullets into a driver reaching for his wallet is perhaps a bit more than "annoying?"

I ain't no race baiter. I actually hate it, because it waters down the real problems. But when a guy gets shot like that (and he wouldn't have if he was white), it should at least give you some pause.
 
Thing1 said:
Have you ever considered that unloading 4 bullets into a driver reaching for his wallet is perhaps a bit more than "annoying?"

I ain't no race baiter. I actually hate it, because it waters down the real problems. But when a guy gets shot like that (and he wouldn't have if he was white), it should at least give you some pause.
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I just wonder how dumb you are.... If a man in uniform is shouting at you not to move and pointing a gun at you, would you reach for your wallet?
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Greg Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler

It came from a DOJ report. Consider yourself educated on the matter, lol.
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I fail to see your point. Are the shootings still disproportional to the general population and the crime rate in that community? If so, then there's a problem that needs to be fixed.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I fail to see your point. Are the shootings still disproportional to the general population and the crime rate in that community? If so, then there's a problem that needs to be fixed.
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Yes, the general population shoots each at significantly higher rates than the police shoot them.

I wasn't aware someone couldn't be aware of that.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
My point had more to do with avoiding certain situations with cops. I wouldn't bum rush a cop under any circumstances.
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Neither would I but I've been in an inner city situation where just talking to a cop nearly got me my ass beat. That never happened to me in any of the small towns I lived in where cops were just another working stiff that anyone could approach.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Neither would I but I've been in an inner city situation where just talking to a cop nearly got me my ass beat. That never happened to me in any of the small towns I lived in where cops were just another working stiff that anyone could approach.
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You realize that cops are people wearing uniforms, right? They're not robots. The person may be cool, or Smarter Than You may have finally found a department so hard up for personnel that they hired him.

Judging people as a group based on the clothes they wear is as dumb as judging them based on the color of their skin.
 
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