Posted on 08/14/2014 3:05:37 PM PDT by Valpal1
Consider the very first interactions: A cop and young black male interact on the street, and both give the other a bit of attitude. The officer gives some attitude because he's tired of getting attitude from other young men, and the young man gives some attitude because he's tired of getting attitude from other cops. Now, who's at fault?
This, as simple as it sounds, is how it starts. Once the infection begins, it grows quickly. If you want to say the cop's at fault because he's the adult with training, you are right. And if you want to say the young man is at fault for disrespect or mistrust of a cop's authority, you are right.
If both sides refuse to move toward the middle, we will all just keep going down this path, and another black family will plan another funeral. Or we can agree that we, each of us, will be better off accepting responsibility for an infection that we cannot defeat individually.
Who makes the first step? The police must. Many police agencies have community outreach programs that are successful. Police officers are in the position of authority, and they have the power to send a message that when they serve a community, they serve all the people of the community equally, regardless of race. To break this cycle, police must recognize there is bias in the system, and they make an effort to treat the people they serve with respect.
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You know, all these police / minorities conflicts remind me of growing up in the late ‘60s - early ‘70s. Same problems, same news reports, same riots, same tired old rhetoric, etc. Nothing seems to have changed or gotten better.
We have reverted back to the ‘60s. Are “Mad” and “Cracked” magazines still around?
Exactly, and notice how blacks who do well in school are belittled by their peers for "acting white" and successful blacks are called "sellouts" and "uncle toms." But somehow the authenticity and blackness of black criminals is never questioned. Hmmm, Quite revealing.
Where is the outrage over the black “teen” who sucker punched a 71-yr-old white guy recently for no other reason than he was white?
Exactly, whites are victims of black violence far far more than blacks are victimized by whites, whether police or civilians.
The problem here is not militarization or profiling or any other PC scapegoat du jour. The problem is black culture and the way it fosters, enables and excuses black criminal behavior.
Its never going to change as long as everyone allows blacks to blame everything and everyone else for the problems they, for the most part, create.
Yep and now Rand Paul is trying to borrow a tactic from their playbook. Sad to see that some of the people here, who should know better, are falling for it.
100% agree with every word.
nail on the head.
All we want to door is knockout some white people, rob some stores and burn them down, why do keep treating us bad and putting us in jail??
“In the case of Ferguson, it used to be a white suburb, now black. Police are a legacy from the white past.”
Very well put; same here in northeastern cities. The current residents don’t pay for police protection (or schools, or anything else for that matter); they expect them because when Anglo-Americans were there they had those things (the fact that they paid for them is conveniently ignored). When municipalities try to raid employers for the revenues, they simply pack up & leave.
Today they complaint about the retirement benefits being paid to those retired white employees (since they consume so much of the limited current revenues); apparently they don’t like other Democrats getting their “stuff”...
“Poisoned relationship between police and minorities”
They should specify that it is one particular minority group, not minorities in general.
no offense, it ain’t just minorities.
Yes, I woke up one day and suddenly understood what some other demographics were complaining about. I ignored the growing police state because I was unaffected by it... until I wasn’t.
So no, the Ferguson PD isn’t getting a free pass on this one. I’m no longer assuming that victims of police shootings invited it through their own criminality.
he pd may have problems but the officer still may have been attacked by the guy.
reports say the kid got several face punches in on the officer and then went reaching for the gun. they say the officer’s face is clearly swollen ow. if true, it wold lend some credibility to this account.
i was a “good boy” at 18 and at that time never would have thought that was the thing to do to an armed officer.
I have been saying this for days. If civility had been used on both sides, the guy would be alive. “Gentlemen, move onto the sidewalk!”
“Yes, Officer.”
Done deal.
Exactly. I wish one politician would have the spine to say that there is an epidemic of violence being perpetrated by blacks on Whites and that the problems within the black community are of their own making, not due to White racism.
Same as the retired cop that shot the retired navy guy over texting and thrown popcorn.
Good manners saves lives.
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