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Old 07-10-2016, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Why, well one reason: you can't just rent in a low income, project area unless you qualify. I might ask you the visa versa question: how many relatives and friends do you have who are police officers and what do yo think police should do to better serve the high crime areas?

It starts at home; get the parents to teach kids right from wrong: be there when the kids need attention: set a good example for them. If the parents did a better job, there wouldn't be so much street violence. Just isit or live in a middle class neighborhood, black, white, Hispanic, mixed or whatever: see the difference in the crime: stop blaming the police and start putting the blame where it belongs.
The parents are in jail because of the racist way law enforcement does it's business. An overwhelming majority of arrests are drug arrests. Even though races use drugs at similar rates blacks are incarcerated at a much higher rate.

Today, the US is 5% of the World population and has 25% of world prisoners

African Americans represent 12% of the total population of drug users, but 38% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 59% of those in state prison for a drug offense.

African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months).

In 2002, blacks constituted more than 80% of the people sentenced under the federal crack cocaine laws and served substantially more time in prison for drug offenses than did whites, despite that fact that more than 2/3 of crack cocaine users in the U.S. are white or Hispanic

Criminal Justice Fact Sheet | NAACP

 
Old 07-10-2016, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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I would like to believe that most Americans are raised to respect the men and women who bravely go out day after day to keep their community safe. We also get the opportunity to see what police officers are like when they don’t have the uniform on, and they are normal members of our society. As the rule enforcers of the community, maybe police officers may seem intimidating, and the rebellious humans we are, we tend to see people who enforce the rules as oppressive.

Police brutality is not OK, but the number of abusive officers is vastly outweighed by the majority of officers who do their jobs right and do it well. We should not have a negative view of all police officers just because of the actions of a few.

Black lives DO matter, all lives matter, BLUE lives matter too.

Most importantly, KINDNESS still MATTERS

Last but not the least, LAPD officers rock!!
 
Old 07-10-2016, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Why, well one reason: you can't just rent in a low income, project area unless you qualify.
Not all housing in love income areas is section 8. And the fact that you think it is, shows that you know nothing about the world outside of your little bubble.
 
Old 07-10-2016, 01:09 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I would like to believe that most Americans are raised to respect the men and women who bravely go out day after day to keep their community safe. We also get the opportunity to see what police officers are like when they don’t have the uniform on, and they are normal members of our society. As the rule enforcers of the community, maybe police officers may seem intimidating, and the rebellious humans we are, we tend to see people who enforce the rules as oppressive.

Police brutality is not OK, but the number of abusive officers is vastly outweighed by the majority of officers who do their jobs right and do it well. We should not have a negative view of all police officers just because of the actions of a few.

Black lives DO matter, all lives matter, BLUE lives matter too.

Most importantly, KINDNESS still MATTERS

Last but not the least, LAPD officers rock!!
Like the 8 cops who pumped 100 bullets at a gray truck with two Hispanic woman that were throwing newspapers because the cops thought they were Dorner a 6'5" black man in a blue truck?

Law enforcement as a whole is racist and is the big organized crime unit in America. They are not held accountable. A few good ones. Not many.
Too many cops don't speak up. They are almost as bad.
 
Old 07-10-2016, 01:10 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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Like the 8 cops who pumped 100 bullets at a truck (gray truck) with two Hispanic woman that were throwing newspapers because the cops thought they were Dorner a 6'5" black man (blue truck)?

Too many cops don't speak up. They are almost as bad.
when you poste the bolded, seriously, what do you expect me to say? ALL LAPD officers are bad?

Be fair.
 
Old 07-10-2016, 01:12 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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when you poste the bolded, seriously, what do you expect me to say? ALL LAPD officers are bad?

Be fair.
All of them are bad. If a good cops aren't speaking up, it's because the system punishes them for doing so. So anyone apart of the system is a problem.
 
Old 07-10-2016, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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All of them are bad. If a good cops aren't speaking up, it's because the system punishes them for doing so. So anyone apart of the system is a problem.

With all due respect, this whole "all cops are bad" thing needs to stop.

The statement within this question and also throughout the media and communities of all income class and colors, saying that these shootings and killings are the result of racist officers is, to me, disturbing.
 
Old 07-10-2016, 01:18 PM
 
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It's not done street by street.
No sheet Sherlock. Highly impoverished neighborhoods simply do not have the money to provide their own protection.

Again, where is the money coming from for the poorest neighborhoods?
 
Old 07-10-2016, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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With all due respect, this whole "all cops are bad" thing needs to stop.

The statement within this question and also throughout the media and communities of all income class and colors, saying that these shootings and killings are the result of racist officers is, to me, disturbing.
I don't believe the police officers are racist. The racist thing is just put there so the racist people who do exist will think it's ok for cops to shoot citizens. Police shoot unarmed white citizens too, but that's never reported, because the narrative needs to be be divisive. If white peope woke up and realize that they too can be victims of police brutality, then you would see racial unity on a topic against the government. And the government hates the idea of blacks and whites uniting against it.
 
Old 07-10-2016, 01:21 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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I don't believe the police officers are racist. The racist thing is just put there so the racist people who do exist will think it's ok for cops to shoot citizens. Police shoot unarmed white citizens too, but that's never reported, because the narrative needs to be be divisive. If white peope woke up and realize that they too can be victims of police brutality, then you would see racial unity on a topic against the government. And the government hates the idea of blacks and whites uniting against it.
Uniting against what?

Police brutality is never OK, but let's not pretend all police officers are bad.
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