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[Belsnickel]

(06-09-2020, 02:53 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Unfortunately this is 100% bullshit.

Police only create a very small portion of arrests.  The overwhelming majority of black people get arrested because other black people are victims of their crimes and call the police.

Based on percentage of population blacks are almost twice as likely to commit violent crimes and 70% of the time the victim is also black.  That is not based on arrest or conviction numbers which might reflect racism in the system.  Instead that is based on the Bureau of Justice Victim Survey numbers.

BLM will never accomplish anything as long as they refuse to address the high crime rate among blacks and the glorification of the "thug" identity.  White people did the same thing back in the 1930's.  Thy saw the banks as evil so they saw bank robbers as heroes.  It was wrong then and it is wrong now.  But the black community has to take care of that themselves.  And the first step is to stop lying about the crime numbers.

Not saying I disagree with you on most of this. However, what we also need to recognize is that there are systemic issues that contribute to the increase crime rates in the black community. Namely, oppressive social policies that have made it difficult for black people in this country to get out of poverty and move up the socioeconomic ladder, laws passed that are targeted at crimes that poor people and minorities are more likely to commit therefore putting them in prison at higher rates for these non-violent offenses so that there can be a free labor force for the for-profit prison industrial complex, and red lining which has pushed these populations into small, urban settings which have also shown through research to be conducive to higher crime rates. That's just to name a couple off the top of my head.

We can keep digging deeper and deeper into this public policy hole, because root causes and holistic solutions are absolutely what we should target. But we need to recognize that there are also systemic issues of racial inequity in the criminal justice system, including the way in which policing often occurs (e.g. broken window policing).