Study: 911 calls fell in black neighborhoods after police violence

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(09-29-2016, 12:15 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: So 2 rare incidences over a 12 year period causes black communities to stop calling 911, even though the cops in the first incident were convicted. The cop on the second incident is no longer on the force.
Because they stop calling, homicides go up.
Sounds self-inflicting to me.

Huh.

I guess you could see that way.

You *could* see it like a community became afraid because of the actions of the people they thought were there to protect them.  And that those actions reinforced a growing feeling that a lot of unreported/uninvestigated/unpunished incidents also go on.

But you could blame the community for not trusting the police when there are "rare incidents" where citizens were beaten.

You could also ignore how the officers who committed the crime handled it and how that might add to the citizen's mistrust.

You could see it that way.