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Why many blacks resist arrest. Thomas Sowell @ThomasSowell "Racism is not dead. But it is on life-support, kept alive mainly by the people who use it for an excuse or to keep minority communities fearful or resentful enough to turn out as a voting bloc on election day." 12:06 PM · Jun 3, 2020 The above quote is from one of the finest thinkers currently in the world. A black man who grew up in America. What he didn't mention here, is that it has been going on since the mid sixties. Now, we have 3 generations of blacks who grew up believing their problems were all due to bigotry. It fostered in them a growing resentment and distrust. That resentment has gradually culminated in a natural tendency among many in the black community to fight back, very often when it was not necessary or justified. The black community has been conned by liberal politicians and self-serving black "leaders" into feeling desperation well beyond any realistic need. As a consequence, due to misguided societal perceptions, young black men have been conditioned to have a greater propensity when confronted by police (especially white cops) to fear, distrust, and ultimately resist arrest, and/or react violently. Add to that the natural inclination of desperate communities to have higher crime rates in general and thus more interactions with police. So since the 60s, we've all grown up in current American society and seen the statistics of deaths of young blacks by police rise above death rates of white men at a proportional double that of whites based on population. But that's not the entire explanation. Over this same time period since the 60s, we've seen the percentage of killings of police rise, and now is at a point at which 40% of those deaths are at the hands of blacks, mostly males, who comprise only about 7% of the population. And cops are aware of this. For any police officer it's scary, (and especially so for white cops,) whenever there is an encounter with middle age and younger black men. In those situations, the tensions are much higher from both the police and the black men than other encounters either party is likely to face. Both sides are scared of each other and both sides are tense. The conclusion is, the reason there is disproportionally more deaths of blacks at the hands of police, is due to the lies and manipulations of those on the left, including the main-stream media, liberal politicians, and charlatan leaders and advocates both white and black, all combined with the result of causing an unrealistic fear and anger toward whites and police. Blacks have been lied to and used by the left for decades. The left, both white and black, are the only ones who keep this going. It's the way they maintain their own power. |
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Just another of my humble opinions. GBU all.
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9/15/2020 5:26 pm |
gavin, race baiters, aka race hustlers have only the race card to use to excuse laziness. we have one person on sff very successful. yet they trot out how she was oppressed by whitey. YOU CAN ONLY BE HELD BACK OR OPPRESSED IF U ALLOW URSELF. , BETTER KNOWN AS WEAK MINDED BLUE LIVES MATTER DEO VIN DICE
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Look at this, it's SFF-KKK.....
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9/15/2020 7:02 pm |
You wrote it. Your words-----it is YOUR opinion. YOU RIDE IN DUMP A LOAD OF SHIT AND CLAIM THE LEFT IS KEEPING IT GOING????? Think about that one! You know all about how black people raise their children, what they face, etc. Your picture shows you are white. (supremacist?) Then you claim the left is keeping it going instead of YOU??????????? Give us a freaking break!
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I posted this politely and hoped to keep it that way. I'm just not in the mood for people who only want to fight and express personal hate rather than civil disagreement. But I let a couple comments slide. However, at this point I'm just gonna delete those who rant hatefully rather than in a calm exchange. I'm flattered that I'm so important to some people that they waste time and energy hating me rather than making any effort to simply consider my views logically without rancor, but it's a useless distraction because they contribute nothing to the topic. So I'm deleting any further ranters or haters. GBU all, Gavin
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9/15/2020 9:45 pm |
Guess all you want------What about all you want ---- in order to further your claim that the left keeps this stuff going when it is you yourself doing it intentionally with this blog. I am not being hateful. I am pointing out the fact that you are promoting something in an attempt to blame others & you should in all of your wisdom know it is not right to do that Actually you are not important so there is no need to flatter yourself. LOL Your play on words is rather self centered. Your topic is meaningless when you are the one keeping crap going & accuse the opposition of being the one who is doing it. So delete me. I am writing this just for YOU. LOL Your summation of placing everything on the left tells your whole story so do not lecture me about staying on topic of the blog. It is divisionary crap & you know it.
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9/22/2020 6:22 am |
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Looks like the evidence points in a very different direction from this victim blaming screed - a polemic with NO evidence presented. From Scientific American (one of my long time favourite publications since I received a copy of mathematical Puzzles and Diversions as an academic prize in 1967) Three Ways to Fix Toxic Policing Accountability, demilitarization and the transfer of responsibilities to social workers are needed to remake our overly antagonistic law-enforcement agencies By THE EDITORS on September 1, 2020 It was not just a knee pinned to George Floyd's neck that killed him. Or gunshots that killed Breonna Taylor. Or a chokehold that killed Eric Garner. It was also centuries of systemic racism that have festered in U.S. society and institutions, including our overly punitive, adversarial system of policing. And videos of the recent police-involved killings do not show the broader toll that stop and frisk, arbitrary arrests and other aggressive law-enforcement actions have taken on Black and other minority communities. Nationwide and fundamental police reform is long overdue. Since the advent of government-led “wars” on crime and drugs in the past decades, policing has taken a decisively violent turn, and police departments often see themselves as adversaries of the very communities they are meant to safeguard, according to policing researcher Peter Kraska of Eastern Kentucky University. In addition to this antagonistic culture, several studies show that police are more likely to stop, arrest and use force against Black and Latinx people than white people. Research by Yale University sociologist Monica Bell documents that individuals subject to such over policing do not see police as protecting them, even when they are concerned about violence in their communities. They report unease even after an encounter where officers acted appropriately. Incremental reforms will not fix this perverse system: choke holds have been banned in New York City for decades, and the Minneapolis Police Department requires officers to intervene when a fellow officer uses excessive force, but neither rule prevented the death of Garner or Floyd. Nor will technology turn the tide. Body cameras have made the problem of police brutality against minority communities harder to ignore but have not reined it in. Instead we need to rethink how we conceive of and support public safety so that it encompasses all communities. One way to do this would be to create policies that use social workers to tackle issues that have been dropped at the feet of police who are ill trained to handle them, such as homelessness, mental illness and working with young people to prevent violence. Law-enforcement professionals themselves have highlighted this problem, and some alternative programs point toward solutions. For example, community-based violence-prevention groups such as Cure Violence have lowered shootings and killings in cities such as Baltimore and Philadelphia where they have operated, according to policing researcher Alex Vitale of Brooklyn College. And programs such as CAHOOTS in Eugene, Ore.—which routes emergency calls about mental illness to social workers instead of the police—and the Denver Alliance for Street Health Response offer models for other cities to explore. Taking responsibility for dealing with these non crime issues out of the hands of police removes officers from situations beyond their training and reduces the chances of encounters escalating to violence. Fewer than 1 percent of the thousands of calls CAHOOTS responded to last year necessitated police backup, the group reports. In designing these policies, officials must engage communities—particularly those who have suffered most from overpolicing—to understand what issues are most important to them in ensuring safety. A necessary step will be to address the militarization of policing. The use of SWAT teams and tactics has ballooned well beyond the threatening hostage or active-shooter situations they were intended to confront. Studies by Kraska, the American Civil Liberties Union and others show SWAT teams are overwhelmingly used for serving search warrants and that communities of color are disproportionately targeted. Returning SWAT to its proper use—and restricting the access of wider police departments to military-style weapons or dogs trained to bite people—would reduce the chances for unnecessary violence and harm. Accountability is another key element. Federal and local officials need the political will to create truly independent oversight mechanisms. But accountability also depends on police departments making data on killings, use of force, disciplinary records, budget allocations and other areas publicly available. Departments have resisted releasing such information, so Congress needs to pass laws that mandate that they do so. Major police reform will take perseverance and money. (Some of the financing can come from reducing police budgets.) These approaches are a starting point as we confront the way dangerous biases, especially racism, have become embedded in police and other powerful institutions. We must work to root them out. This article was originally published with the title "How to Reinvent Policing" in Scientific American 323, 3, 8 (September 2020) doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0920-8
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