Nikka you acting like i wrote it..it just popped up on my timeline...OK...i had nothing to do with it
We all know this...I meant in this context WHAT is a rookie police officer supposed to do to solve political problems..How does that make any of his criticism any less valid..Is he supposed to underwrite some mortgages ,move black families into the burbs..you tell me
And there it is ..the issue this cop was bringing up specifically "Black on Black" crime as you put it..IS EXACTLY why he was assigned to patrol these Black neighborhoods..which is WHY they have extra officers there ..theres probably 5 times as many cops in these poor neighborhood than in the wealthier ones..and its still not enough..
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I asked for clarification because your post was so vague...Grabbed this from another forum I used to read. A bit old but still relevant.
A STATISTICAL PRIMER
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● 60% of people in prison are ethnic minorities; 1 in 10 Black males in their 30s are incarcerated
(Note: Consider the implications. In order to impact change and get the draconian approach to justice fixed, you need to vote. Guess what you can't do when you're a felon?)
● 2027 black males are incarcerated per every 100,000 black individuals
● African Americans given 20% longer sentences for similar crimes as white individuals; 14.5% if you exclude sentences of probation.
● Young black males significantly more likely to be killed by Police (31 in a million v. 1.5 in a million); statistics show that the slayings are also done by mostly White Officers. But even Black Officers who do end up killing someone in the line of duty do so at a rate of 78% black.
(Note: I recommend going to this link and reading it, and explains why the difference is not merely related to, say, higher instances of crime in those communities)
● Black income gap, median income, unemployment, poverty rate is all disastrous compared to other ethnic groups. Wealth disparity between Blacks and Whites grew even larger during the Great Recession.
● Black children far more likely to live in areas of concentrated poverty; schools today are MORE segregated than they were in the 1980s.
● Blacks with a clean criminal background still have a massive handicap, even vs. White job seekers with a criminal background.
● Black folk who attended college about as likely to be hired as a White high school dropout.
● Blacks are far more likely to be selected for Capital Prosecution, aka Death Penalty. Literally, the country is systematically and institutionally choosing to kill Blacks.
● Mandatory Minimum Sentencing laws in this country crushing Minority communities; prosecution hugely disproportionately impacts Black and Hispanic communities.
● The Drug War has destroyed Black communities, irrevocably placing the government in a perpetual war with minorities despite a remarkably similar rate of drug use amongst most ethnicity including White.
● United States Sentencing Commission Report on Mandatory Minimum Sentencing (spoiler: It's screwed)
(Note:college students on the left, police participants on the right)
● The students were also shown photographs alongside descriptions of various crimes and asked to assess the age and innocence of white, black or Latino boys ages 10 to 17. The students overestimated the age of blacks by an average of 4.5 years and found them more culpable than whites or Latinos, particularly when the boys were matched with serious crimes, the study found. Researchers used questionnaires to assess the participants’ prejudice and dehumanization of blacks. They found that participants who implicitly associated blacks with apes thought the black children were older and less innocent.
● Black Students suspended more than three times as much as their white classmates
And those details would all be relevant if this was a letter from a rookie Black congressman..This is a rookie cop..how was he supposed to solve any of those problems
Courtesy of Facebook
Alot of it seemed pretty obvious to me but told from his perspective with such unvarnished truth was pretty powerful
Thoughts...
