Baltimore Riots/Freddie Gray (2 Viewers)
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http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/05/04/cbs-news-poll-race-relations/
Race relations at over 20 year low apparently.
Race relations at over 20 year low apparently.
So the indictment should be about police brutality if I'm not mistaken? It's glaringly apparent there are a lot of folks trying to make this about race (white cops targeting Af-Ams).
Not sure if it has been mentioned here yet but 3 of the 6 cops charged with Freddie's murder are black. This is going to be damn interesting.
Not sure if it has been mentioned here yet but 3 of the 6 cops charged with Freddie's murder are black. This is going to be damn interesting.
Debating police brutality is one thing...but debating that police brutality targets blacks and blacks are yet the victim again is entirely different.
Police brutality in general makes much more sense, but it isn't entirely against blacks like people claiming to be victims are suggesting.
But yes, this debate that we see NOW isn't doing us any good. Blacks in the 60's did it perfectly. Today its the complete opposite.
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Typical uninformed Europeans.
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European artists drawing KKK cartoons when half the cops indicted are black
Police brutality in general makes much more sense, but it isn't entirely against blacks like people claiming to be victims are suggesting.
But yes, this debate that we see NOW isn't doing us any good. Blacks in the 60's did it perfectly. Today its the complete opposite.
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Typical uninformed Europeans.
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European artists drawing KKK cartoons when half the cops indicted are black
Time to invest! :greed:
Buy low, sell high!
I'm not sure I'd characterize it as "below-average intelligence". My guess is its pretty average. Normal distribution curves are very difficult to skew one way or the other, especially at large population sizes.
More to the point, the problem is that, like most people, police are average. But we hold them to higher standards of stability, restraint, avoidance of bias, ethics, and incorruptibility compared to the average person. That's a failure right there. Because the pay and the job isn't enough to warrant attracting exceptional people as a rule... they're pretty much not that far from bus drivers in that regard.
The worst examples you see are in countries where the police are not paid or underpaid... like South Africa. Corruption is almost impossible to prevent with enough bad apples as a normal portion of the general population.
What's probably most missing is better checks and balances to provide oversight. Rather than pretend there are no bad cops, the system needs to acknowledge that there are bad cops and there need to be reasonable ways of either weeding them out or putting them out of potential harm's way.
Buy low, sell high!
I'm not sure I'd characterize it as "below-average intelligence". My guess is its pretty average. Normal distribution curves are very difficult to skew one way or the other, especially at large population sizes.
More to the point, the problem is that, like most people, police are average. But we hold them to higher standards of stability, restraint, avoidance of bias, ethics, and incorruptibility compared to the average person. That's a failure right there. Because the pay and the job isn't enough to warrant attracting exceptional people as a rule... they're pretty much not that far from bus drivers in that regard.
The worst examples you see are in countries where the police are not paid or underpaid... like South Africa. Corruption is almost impossible to prevent with enough bad apples as a normal portion of the general population.
What's probably most missing is better checks and balances to provide oversight. Rather than pretend there are no bad cops, the system needs to acknowledge that there are bad cops and there need to be reasonable ways of either weeding them out or putting them out of potential harm's way.