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A Young Black woman's experience with police
- Thread starter bobhikes
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I'm not defending the cops. I'm not denying racism.
That said, think how much different this would be if - for the last 50 years - everyone in the country felt financially secure in their homes and financially secure in all the basic necessities of life.
That said, think how much different this would be if - for the last 50 years - everyone in the country felt financially secure in their homes and financially secure in all the basic necessities of life.
I really don't think it would matter people always have problems and are always looking to blame someone else. Immigrants, religions are always discriminated against for most they can hide and blend in but for black people they stand out by observation alone, which makes them an easy target.
It all points out the dire necessity to have cops continuously monitored.
I wasn't making a 100% claim. Of course their will always be the kinds of issues you mention. But my claim is that if we were closer to income and wealth equality, the problems we're seeing would be greatly reduced. Not entirely eliminated, but greatly reduced.
As depicted on TV, cops wearing body-cams seems more and more common. Perhaps body-cams are not that common in real life?
body cams would be helpful!
Monitoring is good but we also need a system willing to do corrective measures instead of just shuffling those with complaints around, or giving them slaps on the wrist, if they do anything at all.
And when they are, they somehow become de-activated.
If one watches the videos, one will see a cop changing his
attitude 180 degrees upon discovering he's being watched.
Have we? I mean, we see cops using unnecessary force through their body cams which I assume they know they have. I'm not sure how effective security cameras would be in this scenario, especially of those who evaluate the footage and make disciplinary calls don't have more of an interest in evaluating them objectively.
Don't get me wrong, I think they'd be useful for us, the public, to see what's going on with highest transparency, but we need reform in the police department too I think.
I've been blathering on & on recently about the need for much more
extensive reforms. So we agree on that. But sometimes I like to
address specifics, eg, the value of cops being watched, & knowing
they're watched. The one vikdeo of her experience made that compelling.
And if they are, that should be a serious strike against the cop and should lead to being fired or more if deliberately done.
That is a root problem and something that was expressed inherently as an ideal in the Declaration of Independence. Liberty is more than just not being locked up for a crime the person did not commit. It's more than just being able to vote. Created equal means that everyone should be treated equal in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of government.
I agree.
tytlyf
Not Religious
That's why I don't vote republican. We're in this mess because of capitalist policies.
These things hurt the middle class:
-Against minimum wage increase
-Against unions
-Against social security
-Against medicare
-Against safety nets
-Against tax relief for middle class
-Against safety laws that protect middle class
These are current day republican policies.
I know why people in the middle class would vote republican. They think republicans are the lesser of 2 evils.