2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I don't trust Bernie [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)I knew this when I was a teenager, hell, everyone knew that the police made their quota in the 'colored areas' as they called them. Because they looked for those petty violations daily.
It also gave them a chance to abuse any black person, men, women and children. We all knew this!
I knew a good guy (white) that was interviewed by the cops to join up. They took him for a ride in the cruiser to show him what a typical day was like. All day long the cop was handing out tickets for stuff those going paycheck to paycheck have struggles with. Tail light and license plate lights, inspection stickers, stuff like that. I know these things are about safety.
I also knew, I had to be alert to not be caught when the price of living made it hard to do things perfectly.
He said he could NOT work with people who made their living that way and didn't take the job. We worked together for a few years. I'd had my own experiences with the local PD for my job. And their opinion of any woman, working or not, was that she was a no better than a prostitute. Real sleazy guys.
Nothing should be done to encourage them. I am glad to see that people in the campaign were not out to make that happen, if it is only Sanders you're talking about here. That's a relief.
I'll edit my post. I wasn't going to answer anyone but you as I won't argue with that stuff. Thanks.