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If you have 649,990 cops, and 10 bad cops. And 0 cops arrest the bad cops for their actions. You actually have 650k bad cops. But even setting aside the issue
by kennywinker 6y ago
If you have 649,990 cops, and 10 bad cops. And 0 cops arrest the bad cops for their actions. You actually have 650k bad cops.
But even setting aside the issue of bad cops, the way policing is done in racialized neighbourhoods means that even if you had 0 bad cops the system would still oppress these groups through things like stop-and-frisk and various other means of over policing or "broken-windows" policing.
- google234123 6y agoGood thing that the number of bad cop arrests is not 0 then. I don't get why people have issues with sending law enforcement to the places where there is literally more crime.
- qtplatypus 6y agoBecause it creates a positive feedback loop. More police means more incidences of law breaking get detected as crimes, which results in more police enforcement. Imagine a road network and police with a limited number of speed traps. If you send the speed to the places where there have been more people caught speeding then the fact that the speed traps where in that location will have a higher rate of caught speeders. Another example is drug enforcement. Black people are searched more often then white people for drugs, which results in them being caught having drugs more often which in turn makes police think that they are more likely to have drugs.
- google234123 6y agoIt could also create a negative feedback loop: e.g. breaking up gangs or reducing the likely hood the a crime will go unpunished will lead to less crime in an area.
- kennywinker 6y agoIt could, but it doesn't
- kennywinker 6y agoCome back to me when they've arrested the cops who killed breonna taylor. Until then, it's as close to 0 as makes no difference.