The language used is quite telling isn't it:
Murder someone in broad daylight in front of others while being filmed but do it in uniform = bad apple
Throw a brick through a window during a protest = scum/vermin/thug.
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Murder someone in broad daylight in front of others while being filmed but do it in uniform = bad apple
Throw a brick through a window during a protest = scum/vermin/thug.
Regards the whole defunding police shouts, is that really wise?
Doesn't it make it harder for the police to actually go after real crime? Is that beneficial?
Doesn't it make it harder for the police to actually go after real crime? Is that beneficial?
Much like 'defund the WHO' it's a bit daft. Reform don't defund.
My thought is it was kind of like "Oh, you won't reform will you? Fine, we'll just take money off you till you do"
Exactly. I've been reading into the movement and the rhetoric of improving services such as mental health, social workers and community liaison is good.
Nevertheless, I can't help but feel that it's misguided to believe that this alone, or at least any time soon, will deal with crime that unfortunately occurs.
Debunkology
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OK. Excellent post. I appreciate you trying to engage in disputing the information rather than making solely personal attacks. But then the sly dig at the end was unnecessary. But whatever.
Replicationindex argue:
We argue that it is necessary to include population proportions in the model. After all, there are many counties in the dataset with predominantly White populations and no shootings of Black civilians. This is not surprising. For officers to encounter and fatally shoot a Black resident, there have to be Black civilians. To ignore the demographics would be a classic statistical mistake that can lead to false conclusion.
However it’s already argued in the original article that the population proportion benchmark is a flawed argument, simply because it’s a “strong assumption that White and Black civilians have equal exposure to situations that result in FOIS”.
Somethings have been expanded upon here: https://theconversation.com/our-database-of-police-officers-who-shoot-citizens-reveals-who-shot-citizens-119623
It’s interesting but not surprising that they find a correlation between police shootings and violent crime areas. And at the county level:
In regards to other studies, I have yet to read any studies that have concrete evidence of police bias and most of these studies need more information to why certain people died. I think everyone has to admit that it's very difficult to come to any firm conclusions. There need to be more information available.
tsubaki
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It’s a terrible idea, especially as no one has any idea what they are going to replace it with and of course the notion that the money cut from the police is going to go to “the community” instead is close to zero. All it will probably end up doing is further removing the one functional bit of the state from some places.
If they’d rather instead called for an end to private prisons / insecurity of tenure for cops whilst removing some of the legal craziness that abounds over there (both of which make appalling behaviour much more likely) then it would be a lot more sensible.
From what I've seen, there are people calling for 'dialogue' and pushing out clichés like 'a few bad apples shouldn't spoil the cart', simultaneously trying to portray anything anyone on the left or anyone black for that matter as speaking on behalf of every black person.
Debunkology
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Let’s see.
I get a labeled a right wing supporter/surfer of Candice Owens. A woman who is black. And verreauxi said “That’s a new one”.
I said “I don’t see why people connect politics to sport”. Just because I surf shouldn’t mean I have a certain political ideology. I find that prejudice weird.
Yeah, I did meet a vegan yoga instructor in Bulgaria. And the guy was the biggest Conservative you could ever meet. People assumed he was the total opposite in his political views on first appearances.
How you’ve managed to twist this into a correlation of “I have black friends I’m not racist” is actually not impressive at all, just another snide comment to indirectly imply I am racist. Which is tiresome.
Just because one subscribes to the view that the UK and USA are not Institutionally racist countries, does not make them racist. It also does not make them a Conservative.
Just because someone is a Conservative does not mean they are racist.
It’s this type of narrative that has divided the UK and USA, and also divided the left.
I'm aware of the problem in London. I live here and I've personally seen a few incidents with knives (quite unlucky I think).
Deploying more community based officers to get to know locals would make an immediate impact on the issue. As would an injection of funding as outlined above.
You can't just keep racially profiling people, as the vast majority of people who are stopped are innocent.
Innocent BAME people who are repeatedly stopped because of their skin colour. It isn't right.
the sniderman
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hi buddy i am from the leopards eating peoples face party and would like u to vote for us.
the sniderman
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people fresh out of diapers should really avoid hitchens books as this is what happens. finding ur center trips to bulgaria sure give some solid life experience.
I hear they have an excellent manifesto
the sniderman
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he does not seem the type of kid with an eye for detail buddy.
Man-eat-facesto?
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