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> you'll still help the police do their job when it makes sense to do so. I bet a black or hispanic man would have a completely different perspective. Hopefull
by pm24601 9y ago
> you'll still help the police do their job when it makes sense to do so.
I bet a black or hispanic man would have a completely different perspective. Hopefully, one will comment.
- derefr 9y agoI bet someone who lives outside the US (say, a British person, or someone from Kenya) would also have a completely different perspective. I would invite those, too, but their perspectives might make the commenters here extremely confused, if they didn't mention they were talking about non-American police.
- tptacek 9y agoI live on a majority black block and have watched my neighbors help the police. The notion that black and latino people automatically oppose law enforcement is also troubling. Like (I presume?) most black people, I believe policing is structurally racist. But then, so too is exposure to crime, which disproportionately impacts poorer minority neighborhoods. The notion that black people and the police are natural adversaries doubly victimizes poor black people: first by ratifying the hostility they (definitely) experience from police officers, and second by putting them out of the protection of the law itself. It's an easy way to try to score points on a nerd message board, amongst an audience of people who are extremely unlikely to experience violent crime. It's also callously instrumentalist. Find a better way to make this point, is what I'm suggesting.