To Serve And Protect

There's no way you can know that. Your department, you work for might be great. it also might not reflect the attitudes of all departments across the country, like Willson's former department that was shut down because of repeated racist complaints and lawsuits. The LAPD was turned upside down after the LA Riots and before that had a ton of racism lawsuits and complaints form the black community. And like I said before, I don't feel this is all white power and KKK stuff. Nowadays it's about stereotyping IMO. Those stereotypes are only concerned with race and no other factors. That's not overt and you wouldn't just know everyone's attitudes unless you talk to them about it. Have you talked to all of your fellow officers about it or have you attended some kind of training where everyone was talking about their attitudes? I really want to know because that would be awesome and would at least give me some insight into why you feel so sure that none of this is about racism.

But read those #alivewhileblack tweets and explain how those incidents weren't racist. These are people sharing their experiences. If you think they're all lying then I don't know what to tell you. Why do the overwhelming majority of black people across gender, economic, and employment lines across the US that speak on this topic saying essentially the same thing?

Also, I'm sure the great majority of people shot by the police are white. That only makes sense being that white people are the majority in the country. But again, this isn't about who was killed by the police. These protests are about who is getting killed by the police unjustly. Who is unarmed and getting shot by the police. Who is being shot and killed as a first option in police encounters.

 

I don't think it's just whites, but I do think this is mostly just racist stereotyping.

Why with the police? Who would be most effected by racist stereotyping from law enforcement? The races most stereotyped as law breakers. All stereotypes (that I can think of off the top of my head) have a hint of truth to them IMO. Blacks do have a higher percentage of crime in general. But it's racist if you let that fact overshadow other facts such as a person wearing a 3 piece suit, black or not, probably isn't trying to rob anyone (to reference the example I gave earlier), or the fact that crime is way down amongst blacks, or the fact that most black people aren't criminals in the first place. If you assume a random black person is a criminal, you're going to be wrong waaaaaayyy more than right.

 

I see, so Blacks shouldn't expect to be treated without assumption of being a criminal until we stop crime. Let's look deeper at this assertion. Let's go in descending order from a broader picture of the percentages of crime to a more narrow view

1. Men of all races, commit somewhere around 80% of all crime in this country.
2. Whites commit around 69% of all crime in this country according to the FBI over the past 3 years
3. Poor people of all races and ethnicities commit more crime, in approximately the same percentages (and specifically across black and white racial lines).
4. Blacks, as a percentage to our population, commit more crimes than other races.

All four statements above are true... why is statement 4 the only one that's important in justifying criminal assumptions and racism? The thought of assuming/treating all men in this country like criminals would be laughable, yet it's ok to treat all blacks like criminals? The thought of assuming/treating all white people in this country like criminals would be laughable, yet it's ok to treat all blacks like criminals? The thought of assuming/treating all poor people of all races in this country like criminals would be laughable, yet it's ok to treat all blacks like criminals?

it is nothing short of racist to just skip over male, white, and poor, (at the very least) as valid points of criminal assumption/treatment in order to settle on black as a good point of evaluation.

 

What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter much for black people if we're neatly dressed, or sagging with a wife beater. Often times we get treated the same no matter what we wear, what we drive, or how we talk. That's racist. That's about the color of our skin and not not any other factors. Those #alivewhileblack tweets were examples.

I kind of get why dav might feel that way, but I can't comprehended how anyone else could feel that way. How many examples of police corruption and black people explaining this do people need to believe this s*** happens... a lot. Like I said before, I think most cops are good. Most departments are good for the most part. but I don't think you are paying attention to how often some of these departments are getting sued, or having an inordinate amount of complaints about racist actions. Please read this as an example:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...e-racist-and-violent-and-theres-only-one-fix/

 

I've been traveling all day for work. I just need to chill for the night. I'll try to get some numbers about that tomorrow

 

If you have group A, consisting of 100 people and 5 commit a crime. And you have group B, consisting of 20 people, and 10 commit a crime,

Follow protocol or be fired. SMH

They've gotta be educated.

"You gonna show me some of that Rodney King ish?"
"Naw, we don't roll like that no more."
- Denzel and Hawke - - Training Day

A reporter I follow on FB in the Bay Area says he goes into the roughest neighborhoods and interviews anyone / everyone in the most dangerous situations. He never gets hurt because people can see he's authentic and truly cares. Until police adopt this attitude, we're gonna continue having problems.

 

^But they'll all be indicted. If a police officer killed them, he wouldn't even be indicted if it looked like he was in the wrong

 

Holder took the Death Penalty off the table. Why? Media kept this off the radar. Pretty amazing / ballsy. But sadly, I'm not surprised.