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If you are police chief with limited resources, where do YOU focus your police force?
Location A: Inner City neighborhood plagued by shootings, robberies, visible drug dealing, gang grafitti and loitering, assaults and bodies found riddled with bullets?.... or...
Location B: Tidy suburb that hasn't had a murder in years, no graffiti or signs of gang activity. Where a pot grow house can be concealed in the basement of a well kept tract home without even the neighbors knowing.
Something tells me a police chief putting as much effort into policing the suburb is going to be accused of racism for ignoring the crimes in the inner city, which disproportionately and adversely affect the poor and minorities in those neighborhoods.
By the way, TONS of federal resources are spent "policing" white collar crimes from tax evasion to money laundering. From the FBI to cyber crimes departments. Just because it's not appearing on COPS or making the news doesn't mean it's not happening.
Good afternoon,
I'll answer your obviously easy scenario. Of course it will be focused in Location A where the drugs and crime are VISIBLE through open sales of drugs, gun battles over territory, neighbor complaints, and 10pm news stories.
In Location B the drug activity is out of sight, since there are no gun battles over territory or open sales for neighbors to see and report. The police chief wouldn't even know what drugs to go after if he doesn't know they exist.
I have yet to see a single thread about why whites are by far the largest market for drugs in America and yet the second-least incarcerated for it (percentage-wise).
Or why most of the cartels supplying the drug trade in America are from Europe/China/Mexico as opposed to Africa (which of course oddly coincides with American immigration patterns).
Or why the russians, italians and irish are not seen as "white" in popular culture the moment they represent a criminal element and the mainstream media (Hollywood) goes to huge lengths to exaggerate their accents and make their culture seem "different" from that of White America so that the two aren't connected.
Or why white collar crime and rampant corruption in Wall Street and corporate america in general - which is almost completely ran by whites - isn't seen in the same light as other crime despite that it almost destroyed our economy.
I could go into more detail but let's make this thread simple. Why are whites stereotypically not seen as being criminals despite that whites have made the vast majority of the $ from illegal trades and business practices throughout American history and are by far the most prevalent group of illegal substance abusers (a federal crime)?
.......they have money, better lawyers, and they are going to rehab and once cought they learn to be more careful........maybe there are more laws broken by those who sell, 2 mexican men were just busted with a trailor load of pot.....they were in a truck with produce it the back in the back. The men got stopped because they were driving funny, and observe going from motel
to motel. Dogs were brought in and ratted them out........crooks are stupid sometimes...........Hollywood depiction of not Americans........Watch American Greed if you bad white guys with no accents turn you on.....America gets it.......don't depend on the media or Hollywood to form your IQ
How do you know crime is more prevalent in large urban centers? You don't know this...none of us do. What you know is that more arrests take place for crimes in urban areas. That's the whole point...if Whites faced the same scrutiny and punishment by the law as Blacks, you would see who was really responsible for most of the crime in the US.
Oh, i don't know, maybe little things like pulling up to a gas station in Milwaukee and pre-paying for my gas with the the employee encased behind a room with 5" of bullet proof glass, and getting gas in a small town west of the city and noticing the lack of any bullet proof class or even the need to prepay before filling the tank.
Or someone's garage being broken into is big news on the radio in a small town, while in a town like Fresno, CA someone is shot and killed in a bar on a weekly basis.
I'll answer your obviously easy scenario. Of course it will be focused in Location A where the drugs and crime are VISIBLE through open sales of drugs, gun battles over territory, neighbor complaints, and 10pm news stories.
In Location B the drug activity is out of sight, since there are no gun battles over territory or open sales for neighbors to see and report. The police chief wouldn't even know what drugs to go after if he doesn't know they exist.
And so the OP's question is answered with a logical explanation, I believe.
Oh, i don't know, maybe little things like pulling up to a gas station in Milwaukee and pre-paying for my gas with the the employee encased behind a room with 5" of bullet proof glass, and getting gas in a small town west of the city and noticing the lack of any bullet proof class or even the need to prepay before filling the tank.
This does not prove that crime doesn't happen in small towns. This only proves that store owners don't take added precautions to prevent theft.
Or someone's garage being broken into is big news on the radio in a small town, while in a town like Fresno, CA someone is shot and killed in a bar on a weekly basis.
Really, a bar killing every week? That's amazing...do you have a link? Would love to check out those stats.
So a small percentage of the black population - never mind that there are plenty of white drug dealers - dealing drugs is a crime worth tarnishing the image of all black people in the media but destroying the economy for everybody when we know that nearly all of the perpetrators are white has no effect on the image of white people? Some country we live in.
Yeah I am sure lily White Boise, Idaho for example has just as many drugdealers as Compton and Detroit.
I bet there weren't many black bankers or Fanny May associates that allowed the country to go down the tubes.
Actually the CEO of Merrill Lynch at the early stages of the financial crisis was Stanley O'Neal a Black American. He managed to land a nice retirement package. As a nation it shows we are making further strides in equality. A Black American can now be just as negligent in his leadership as a White American and still make off great severence and retirement package.
Stan O'Neal got the fifth-largest exit-pay package for a U.S. executive when he left Merrill Lynch & Co. with $161.5 million in securities and retirement benefits, according to research group Corporate Library.
Yeah I am sure lily White Boise, Idaho for example has just as many drugdealers as Compton and Detroit.
Actually it probably does... Do you actually think that white people don't use drugs unless there's black people selling them? If there's no black people - or any other people - in Idaho then who do you think they buy them from?
Idaho social workers estimate children were found in at least a third of 170 labs busted on the Panhandle since 1998.
Kids pulled from meth homes are often sick, mentally and physically. They lose their belongings and security and fill foster homes. Many are likely to face lifelong health problems.
Actually it probably does... Do you actually think that white people don't use drugs unless there's black people selling them? If there's no black people - or any other people - in Idaho then who do you think they buy them from?
Marijuana is the drug of choice. Besides caucasions and pot, there are a lot of Mexicans in Idaho and the Northwest that bring in their meth and gangs from the SW, and is a very known issue. Boise is one of the cleanest and safest cities in the USA and there is an obvious reason for that
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Originally Posted by ChocLot
Idaho seems to prefer meth labs....exposing innocent children to the harmful chemicals while forcing them to live in squalor.
Idaho social workers estimate children were found in at least a third of 170 labs busted on the Panhandle since 1998.
Kids pulled from meth homes are often sick, mentally and physically. They lose their belongings and security and fill foster homes. Many are likely to face lifelong health problems.
Bleh..Washington is worse with Meth, in fact every state has meth, hardly a problem confined to a few states. Big cities have much worse problems, much, much more filth, especially many of the midwest and eastern cities---It is just so common in filthy cities especially the crime ridden DC area.
Digging deeply for scandalous info and weakly attempting to label an entire state are we
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.....America gets it.......don't depend on the media or Hollywood to form your IQ
