Are police systemically racist?

NiftyNiblick said:
People are not always mentally functional; that's an accident of birth and cannot be controlled with our present knowledge of genetic function.

However, can you tell me what nation that has socialized medicine, reasonable access to good education, and accountable government also has a violent crime history and prison population remotely close to ours?
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I certainly cannot. I have heard stories about an abusive police force in Canada, but it can't be close to the USA (that is my conjecture)

UK? Germany? Not comparable, altho my family that remains in the UK still believe that the UK is incredibly violent and with plenty of poverty
 
cawacko said:
Not much surprises me on this board anymore but this got my attention. Everything here is one big game. Politics is about winning, and tribalism and trolling and humiliating your opponent. It's nothing but a game (and entertainment).
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Yep!

The Police just can't go a whole week without murdering another Black person, but yet when the Black People protest it, ALL THE RACISTS FEEL COMPELLED TO GO TO THEIR FAVORITE LITTLE FORUMS AND BLAME EVERYTHING ON THE BLACK MAN and start rooting for the cops.

It's just a continuous cycle.

The Trump loving assholes enjoy watching the White Policemen kill Black People week after week.

How dare the Black People get upset over another little harmless White cop killing some useless Black Person again!
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
Yep!

The Police just can't go a whole week without murdering another Black person, but yet when the Black People protest it, ALL THE RACISTS FEEL COMPELLED TO GO TO THEIR FAVORITE LITTLE FORUMS AND BLAME EVERYTHING ON THE BLACK MAN and start rooting for the cops.

It's just a continuous cycle.

The Trump loving assholes enjoy watching the White Policemen kill Black People week after week.

How dare the Black People get upset over another little harmless White cop killing some useless Black Person again!
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ThatOwlWoman said:
No, I don't think that is true, but then I am a white person who has never been harassed or arrested by the cops so it's likely that my opinion doesn't count for much.

I see the problem with America's cop shops as this: They are almost all organized to parallel military hierarchy. Many LEOs are former military. Police academies may teach "protect and serve" stuff, but in real life cops adopt the "us versus them" mentality that armed service members are taught beginning in basic training. That's a good attitude for soldiers who defend our nation. It absolutely sucks for officers charged with protecting civilian citizens. When you walk out the doors of your cop shop and get into your patrol car, and are conditioned to see everyone as the enemy, how can you react in a less than lethal way to dangerous situations?

Let's re-do that.
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I think we have looked the other way. I know I probably have not done all that I could in the past to stand up for the injustices. I will do better in the future.
 
The fruits of policing is racially biased. The rest is a semantic argument over police as individuals versus the police force as a unit.
 
anonymoose said:
A long time DJ who apparently went into local talk radio. Even the dem mayor at the time addressed the violent crime. He was one of the few who had the balls to tell blacks to clean up their communities. I remember Bill boards reading , "Stop the Killing!"
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Then your post had nothing to do with the police believing us (cops) versus them (citizens).
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) asked this provocative question, clearly skeptical that you could answer this in the affirmative. But a number of those testifying said they did think there was structural racism in American policing, and American society writ large.

“I think every American institution has been kind of shaped by these forces,” said Gupta, the former Justice official. That prompted Cornyn to ask, “Do you do believe that basically all Americans are racist?”

Gupta answered, “I think we all have implicit bias and racial bias. Yes, I do.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/16/takeaways-senate-hearing-police-reform/
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"Are police systemically racist"?


Law enforcement was born though slave patrols.


of course it's systematic. White people need to stop making excuses for it. Law enforcement is racist to the core .
 
TTQ64 said:

"Are police systemically racist"?


Law enforcement was born though slave patrols.


of course it's systematic. White people need to stop making excuses for it. Law enforcement is racist to the core .
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The white cop in Atlanta who killed Brooks said, "I got him" after shooting him. Then kicked him as he lay dying on the ground. According to the DA in Georgia
 
PostmodernProphet said:
sorry.......nobody sat down and said "let's make tougher laws against crack because then we can get the blacks".......pretending they did is just stupid.....
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Yes, they did. That's the explicit rationale behind things like North Carolina and Michigans purchase permit system for handguns. Are you just pretending it isn't and that Jim Crowe laws weren't a thing?
 
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