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White cops are hated in black neighborhoods so why are they there?
Hire enough black cops to police African-American neighborhoods.
The culture of present-day policemen is that they want to tell everyone to "get on the ground!" Even if it is for a burnt-out brake light. Is that really necessary?
They want to use their pepper spray and guns if given the opportunity.
It is part of their violent and dominating culture.
Something has to be done.
Sukee
(29 posts)White cops are placed in OUR neighborhoods as scare tactics! History has proven the slave mentally runs rampant on both sides. As the 'white man' was intimidating to us, we coward when the 'massa' came near. They are placed in our neighborhoods to get their racist frustrations out. To bang our men against walls for no reason, to set them up with no evidence, and to, as one cop said to my 10yr old brother, "start them out early" by showing them what it feels like to be handcuffed.
My community has been screaming this for decades! No one wanted to hear us! We've marched, we've prayed, we've gone through the justice system, we've fought, we've looted, we've burned, we've cried, we've buried our own, we've raised our fists, and we've even gone as far as joining the police and military to try and even things out. Racism is deeply rooted in American culture. Damn if we're going to respect a flag and a national anthem written by Francis Scott Key - A RACIST - with our hands over our hearts pledging our loyalty to a system hellbent in breaking us.
Cops are put in our neighborhoods not as a means of security and protection. They are placed there to find their next 'suspect' so they can show they are part of the 'brotherhood!'
malaise
(267,799 posts)Cops are in the schools to send kids to the privately owned juvenile facilities and they are in communities to come up with crimes that will send young black men to more and more privately owned prisons. Check out who has invested in these prisons - it is the new slavery - free labor and federal and state funds for the prison owners.
Towlie
(5,307 posts)"White cops are hated in black neighborhoods so why are they there?"
Why are black neighborhoods there?
We are one species, and frankly, your idea of increasing segregation, as opposed to working to eliminate it, is way off the mark. You need to re-think it.
FakeNoose
(32,335 posts)Certainly black cops would be handling these situations with black citizens (who aren't even criminals) in a far different manner. The way to avoid racial incidents is to defuse them before they get started.
We're in this problem now because the police departments are filling their vacancies with white men who have a bullying tendency, or they're trained as bullies after they're hired. It's making everything worse.
snowybirdie
(5,190 posts)understand what's happening in policing.
https://www.newsweek.com/racial-makeup-police-departments-331130
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Igel
(35,191 posts)When it comes to shooting suspects, they do so at the same rate. White/white, white/black, black/black, black/white.
There might be differences at low levels of applied force.
What's sad is that there are often OPs where it took a few minutes to compose the OP, then 10, 20, 30 or 40 responses ... But information that either answers the OP's question or kicks it in the butt is a 20-second Google search away.
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marmar
(76,982 posts).... using an 11-year-old survey kind of distorts the picture. (or 6 years old at the time of publication)
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,803 posts)As someone stated upthread, the reason there are "black neighborhoods" is where we need to look first.
marmar
(76,982 posts)delisen
(6,039 posts)of killings.
Frreddie Gray in Baltimore comes to mind. There are others.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Great recruiting poster!
boston bean
(36,186 posts)And society has allowed it.
It must change. Segregation is not the answer.
marmar
(76,982 posts)Hated? Rogue cops are hated. .... That's a bit of rash generalization.
Iggo
(47,486 posts)Rearranging the deck chairs ain't gonna do it.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)gulliver
(13,142 posts)And the most obviously effective solution to it is voting out Republicans from every office in every election. That will take out the Drug War and other "race wars." Right now, the law itself tells police to oppress minorities and the poor. Obviously, those who want to oppress minorities and the poor are going to be attracted by that. Turn off the law's oppression and you dry up the oppression and its funding at the source.
Demsrule86
(68,347 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)Segregation in certain institutions is not segregation of society.