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> Most Americans have a positive experience with police and with police protecting them. This is true in minority communities too. I'm not a minority and I gre

> Most Americans have a positive experience with police and with police protecting them. This is true in minority communities too. I'm not a minority and I grew up solidly upper middle-class. But even as a child, I knew that it was really dangerous to piss off the police. Because the police were generally considered to just be the biggest and best armed gang. Because they acted that way. Things have gotten much better in the ensuing 35-40 years here, but there are still serious, structural problems with police impunity -- especially if you're a minority[0][1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit... [1] https://theintercept.com/2020/10/13/nypd-stop-frisk-warrants-lawsuit/ https://theintercept.com/2020/10/13/nypd-stop-frisk-warrants...

Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
NYPD (in decades past) is an bit of an outlier... but even then, there's a gulf between "have a good experience with" and "don't piss off". Modern polling is what I based by contention on, and I don't think citing the most notorious counter-example (and reaching back before reforms to solve exactly the problem you allege) is much of a response. Minority communities routinely poll in favour of INCREASED presence in their communities nowadays.
- nobody9999 6y ago
  >NYPD (in decades past) is an bit of an outlier... but even then, there's a gulf between "have a good experience with" and "don't piss off". I'm pretty much with George Carlin (at least I'm pretty sure it was him) WRT the police: "It's not that I don't like the police, I just feel better when they're not around."