The Real Systemic Racism In Policing

American Greatness ^ | 26 Jun, 2022 | Paul Bradford

[MtnClimber]

A criminal’s skin color shouldn’t allow him to escape justice. That would be actual systemic racism.

Police in Washington state must now take a suspect’s race into account before doing their job. The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled earlier this month that a suspect deserves special treatment should he happen to be nonwhite.

“Today, we formally recognize what has always been true: in interactions with law enforcement, race and ethnicity matter,” Justice Mary Yu declared. “Therefore, courts must consider the race and ethnicity of the allegedly seized person as part of the totality of the circumstances when deciding whether there was a seizure.”

The case dealt with police approaching an Asian Pacific Islander man as he slept in his car in 2019. The car was parked in an area known as a destination for stolen vehicles. The man, Palla Sum, gave a false name and birthdate to the officers. When the sheriff’s deputy went back to his car to check for any outstanding warrants, Sum fled the scene and later crashed his car. Police later found that Sum had a gun in his vehicle. The suspect was legally barred from owning a firearm, which explains why he sped off.

Sum said he only gave false statements due to being detained under the police’s faulty assumption he was in a stolen car. Sum said police should’ve considered his race before stopping him. He argued that people who look like him are naturally afraid of police. Apparently, all nonwhites—including Asians—are at risk of police violence and this explains why they may run away from cops. The court agreed with this explicitly racial argument.

In effect, minorities can now claim they were unlawfully detained by police simply by pointing to their race–even if a cop had a legitimate reason for stopping them. If the new standard had been applied to the Sum case, the police would have to hesitate to approach any vehicle in a spot known for stolen cars if the occupants happen to be nonwhite.

The ruling pleased public defenders, with one group claiming it recognizes “the lived experiences of our clients and the significant harms they face due to racialized policing.” It did not sit well with prosecutors and police, however. “Police officers and trial court judges, especially, are facing some confusing and uncertain times ahead as they try to correctly apply the court’s ruling,” Pierce County Prosecutor Mary Robnett told the Associated Press.

Thanks to this ruling, criminals now have another way to get out of trouble and police face a new hurdle to doing their job—all because of progressive racial dogmas. The fact that certain races may face arrest more than other groups is a bigger problem than crime itself. We’re not allowed to suggest that members of these groups may commit more crimes than people from other races. That’s racist. The only acceptable explanation for these disparities is systemic racism and we must work to tear down this oppression before we can catch criminals.

In fact, we’re going to need to release a lot of criminals to atone for our racism.

It should be noted that Sum’s racial group is actually disproportionally under-arrested. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are seven percent of the U.S. population but comprise only 1.4 percent of American inmates. If we believe systemic racism is the culprit behind disparities in the justice system, then Asians appear to benefit from it. But logical consistency isn’t one of the Left’s strong suits. The Left says Asians, by virtue of not being white, are oppressed by police and deserve special privileges when dealing with law enforcement.

The Washington court decision is just the latest action in racial mania from progressives. King County, the home of Seattle, basically apologized last week for the offense of arresting blacks disproportionately. Instead of saying it’s due to the police department simply arresting those who committed crimes—regardless of race—officials said the numbers show they need to do more to curb “racial bias.” Police arresting criminals is a reason to feel shame in 2022 America.

The Democrats’ criminal justice reform bill–named the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act–encourages law enforcement to notice race when it comes to stops and arrests. If a department was found to disproportionately arrest a particular minority group, that may be grounds for a federal investigation into their alleged bigotry. So the police would need to take measures to avoid this unfortunate outcome. This would likely mean cops would stop and detain innocent whites and Asians and allow black and Hispanic criminals to roam free just to reduce racial disparities. However, under the Washington Supreme Court’s standard, Asians would be protected—only whites would be subjected to the new racial quota system.

That bill passed the House of Representatives last year. Fortunately, it died in the Senate, but that shouldn’t be too much of a reassurance. Pretty much every congressional Democrat and the White House believe police should implement racial preferences in arrests. That’s an un-American and deeply poisonous idea. Police would look the other way when they see crime if the perp’s race has already exceeded its quota. Worst, they would then arrest innocent people solely to please race commissars.

This insanity underscores why Republicans shouldn’t give any credence to the Left’s claims of police racism. These lies only lead to more crime, more injustice, and more idiocy from judges and lawmakers. A criminal’s skin color shouldn’t allow him to escape justice. That would be the real systemic racism.

[MtnClimber]

Why can’t you get away with looting if you identify as black?

[mewzilla]

FWIW, I doubt law-abiding people if color aren’t cool with lax enforcement since perps tend to prey upon people of a similar skin color.

Deep State’s get-out-of-jail-free cards for minority perps hurts the very communities it’s trying to curry favor with.

[mewzilla]

...doubt law-abiding people of color are cool with...

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

A conclusion that color of skin denotes anything, any value or any internal content is a racist conclusion. The post-Civil War continuation of race baiting was a feature of Democrats, who knew as did the eugenicists, that the token blacks on their side would allow them to mask the larger racist thinking. Since the “content of their character” statement of King and forward to today, the Democrats have worked tirelessly to uphold the core belief that skin color is itself evidence of something. Anything. Without racism as a political tool, the Democrat Party stand only for its own power.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Straight, white males are the only people it is legal to discriminate against, and discrimination against them is required by law.

[AZJeep]

I am not planning to visit WA.
Too much racism there!

[EEGator]

Every single corporation…

[SharpRightTurn]

Washington state is on a mad dash toward third world hellhole status.

If you belong to a non-preferred racial status, now is the time to flee the madness.

[Tell It Right]

"FWIW, I doubt law-abiding people if color aren’t cool with lax enforcement since perps tend to prey upon people of a similar skin color. Deep State’s get-out-of-jail-free cards for minority perps hurts the very communities it’s trying to curry favor with."

That's the way it is with most of my black friends. Many of them are my age and are still of the mindset they had in the 1990's when it was considered racist for police to protect white neighborhoods but not black neighborhoods. They want black neighborhoods as protected as white neighborhoods even though it means arresting more blacks than whites.

[Altura Ct.]

Seems to be and many whites are kowtowed into not speaking up.

[Paal Gulli]

"A conclusion that color of skin denotes anything, any value or any internal content is a racist conclusion. ...."

Except that in many countries (and particularly in America), race generally is aligned with culture, and culture is integral to value and internal content.

[Roccus]

Hey!
Own up to it!
We straight, white males are the single demographic responsible for ALL past, present and future ills, injuries and catastrophes to befall the entire universe and its inhabitants.
Learn your place!!!!!

[antidemoncrat]

“Police in Washington state must now take a suspect’s race into account before doing their job.”

Unless the perps are attacking one of the state’s politicians and then use of deadly force is authorized no matter what color they are.

[Jewbacca]

My very good friend is a state prosecutor in the USA.

He said he (and all prosecutors) are under tremendous scrutiny because minorities allegedly get “harsher sentences”.

The truth is minorities get longer sentences because they commit more crime, more serious crime, and are repeat offenders.

So, the “fix” is to give white men unusually harsh sentences compared to minorities with a similar record.

[nagant]

More specialism. “Society’s rules don’t apply to me. I’m special.”

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Except that in many countries (and particularly in America), race generally is aligned with culture, and culture is integral to value and internal content."

Then logically "culture" asserted to represent a group or nation is de facto evidences a form of racism. Certainly this is true for the Democrat Party as its culture is deeply aligned -- your verb, with which I agree -- with skin color being a defining characteristic. The remaining question is merely -- which skin color(s) evidence which characteristic(s)?

[Paal Gulli]

"...A 2015 study by University of Pennsylvania criminologist Greg Ridgeway, formerly acting director of the National Institute of Justice, found that, at a crime scene where gunfire is involved, black officers in the New York City Police Department were 3.3 times more likely to discharge their weapons than other officers at the scene...."

The Myths of Black Lives Matter by Heather Mac Donald

A related study in Philadelphia (which included Hispanic officers as well as blacks) put the figure at 3.1x. Both studies were vetted by the USDOJ.

So if black and brown cops are three times more likely to shoot a black suspect than a White cop, the logical conclusion is that either black and brown police are too eager to shoot black suspects or White cops are too hesitant.

It's a question that fair answers itself.

[bert]

Black Lives Matter, BLM, is a purely political gambit to kill outright the Trump claim that 34% of Afro Heritage minority citizens would vote for him.

BLM is black ass kissong on a grand scale

[bigfootbob]

Only in the Pugetopolis area. Most of the state has reasonably normal people just trying to live their lives without any interaction with the government.

The Washington Supreme Court, aptly named the Seattle Supreme Court is so far left of center, they make 3 left turns every time they want to go right. As far a systemic racism…look in the mirror Washington leftards, we’ve been dominated by the dimocRAT party for almost 50 years.

Washington State is a great place to visit as long as you stay out of Pugetopolis. My city, Ocean Shores has many snowbirds from Arizona who own summer homes at the beach.