Kraichgauer wrote:
Of course black-on-black violence is a bigger problem than cop-on-black violence. But the significant fact is, blacks by and large fear the police and don't believe said police have interest in their welfare because of the bad relationship they have with law enforcement.
I don't know where you are getting the idea that most blacks fear the police. I have not seen any evidence of this, but you keep saying it over and over. Also, you ignore the fact that many of them are criminals, and therefore
should fear the police. It's because of their actions, not their skin color.
Even putting that problem aside, I don't care what they feel or believe. I care about what the facts say. And the facts do not support these ideas. Cops do not go around looking for reasons to harm or kill innocent black people. That is an insane claim to make and there is not a shred of evidence to support it.
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And no, not every white cop is a racist, but far too many interactions with cops and black citizens are so negative that blacks have little reason to give the police the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Incidentally, percentage wise, whites use drugs as much as do blacks, but you don't see cops cracking down on white neighborhoods nearly as often as they do black neighborhoods. In my fifty years here on earth, I have known white potheads (before it was legal here in Washington state), meth heads, and the like, and not a single one of them (with the exception of my brother-in-law) ever got arrested for drug use or possession. Sure, there are whites who go to prison on drug convictions, but not to nearly the extent that blacks do.
You keep making claims that you have no evidence for. You are just
assuming that blacks experience tons of unfair treatment from police, and you ignore the fact that maybe all the crime in their community has a little bit to do with police targeting them. If you know that one demographic commits
way more crime than another, you are going to have different responses to them. You are going to treat one as more of a threat, and you would be completely justified in doing so. If I saw a group of young black men in hoodies walking towards me on the street at night, I would feel more afraid than if it was a group of white girls. Any rational and intelligent person would, because it is a fact that young black men commit a huge amount of violent crime, whereas white girls are much less likely to be violent.
The solution to that response is for black people to stop committing so many crimes. I know that sounds racist to guilty white liberals, but that is the truth. There is a real, quantifiable reason that people, including law enforcement, are more fearful of black people than they are of others, and it's because of the actions of other black people. You say that black people are afraid of police, but you don't seem to care that the police are afraid of black people, even though that fear is much more justified. An innocent police officer is much more likely to die at the hands of a black man than an innocent black man is to die at the hands of a police officer. And even less often would the cop be accurately termed a racist.
The truth is, what you and BLM are bringing up is a not a real problem. Police don't unfairly target black people because they love killing n****rs; they justifiably target black people because they commit more crimes, and by targeting certain demographics they save more lives. Yes, there are issues with police brutality and corruption in the criminal justice system, but BLM is not talking about these things. They only care when there was a black victim that they can portray as an innocent child or "gentle giant", when in fact they are leaving out many crucial details. As long as it fits their narrative they don't care what they have to lie about.
If black people in BLM cared about black lives, they would be talking about reducing violent crime in their own communities. But instead they want to blame all their problems on white people, and be openly racist towards white people and condescendingly racist towards black people. I am opposed to that. I don't know how many times I am going to need to say this before you understand. You continually cite the experiences of a few people you know, but that is not going to cut it. You need hard evidence. You need to address my arguments directly rather than saying the same thing over and over about how it's their experience, I'm denying their experience etc. I don't CARE about their experience, I care about facts. If you don't have those, then you won't convince me.
For the UMPTEENTH TIME, it's wrong for the police to suspect all black people of crimes just because they come from crime ridden communities! And plenty of blacks from middle class suburbs get harrassed by cops, too! And what of those whites from bad neighborhoods? The police don't seem to obsessed with arresting them.
If cops are too afraid of the people they're supposed to protect, then they've chosen the wrong profession.
29 Jul 2016, 7:18 am
