08-15-2018, 03:59 PM
(08-14-2018, 06:37 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: That said, I feel my first point shouldn't be ignored. For millions of encounters, we only have a very small handful of questionable incidents. Why are we pretending it's an epidemic? Also, I'm not sure what these quotes are you're referring to, but I'm not sure how that changes the fact that these players have essentially branded a nation of police officers over a small handful of incidents.
You are not taking into account two major facts that give these "handful" of incidents much more serious meaning.
1. Police use racial profiling. There have been multiple studies that factored out socio economic factors, location, and other variables other than race, and these studies show that police are more likely to stop and search minorities than whites. In fact multiple law enforcement officers have admitted to racial profiling practices. So blacks know that police use racist tactics.
2. Police brag about the honor code among them whereby they will lie to protect a police officer who has committed a crime. We have all heard about this famous "Blue Wall".
Minorities did not invent these two facts, but they know all about them. So now you don't just have a "handful of incidents". Instead you have a "handful of incidents where cops who use racists tactics have shot unarmed black men and are willing to lie to cover up an unjustified killing".
So if we are going to have better relationship between minorities and police we need the police to agree to stop racially profiling and lying to cover up crimes committed by fellow police officers.
