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Originally Posted by JayJamJah
How often is police brutality an issue? And how often is it exclusivley white cops and a black vicitm?
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" Research on police brutality against ethnic groups is increasing, particularly in Latino communities. Findings suggest a pattern of abuse, often without evidence of a crime and without appropriate review of police action. It is suggested that abuse will abate only when police departments operate openly and undergo public scrutiny. (MSE)"
-Roberto Rodriquez who conducted a story on i believe for a local news outlet.
"A P-I analysis found that africanb-americans are arrested for the crime of obstructing an officer eight times as whites often as when population is taking into account. Analysis, which examined six of Seattle municipal court records also found that almost half of these cases are dropped before trial."
-Taking from a seattle newspaper. Heres the whole link
Blacks are arrested on 'contempt of cop' charge at higher rate
Even my own step brother has gotten pulled over numerous times without any legitimate reason for it.
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Here's the issue summed up as briefly as I can: Try to imagine yourself basing your treatment of another human being based solely on the color of their skin. Understand how absurd that sounds to you if you're a normal thinking person and keep that in mind before you go assuming that it's motivation for others.
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I can't imagine myself doing it, but apparently some people can judge others simply on skin color. A lot of it likely has to do with stereotypes of black people tv ,and on the radio by many hip-hop artists who many people take too literally.
Try going up to kids my age and asking their reaction on racism. Black people who act intelligently are called "White" or "man, hes a white-black kid". Many white kids who grow up in the surburbs that i know our terrified of even taking a city bus.
It doesn't help that they got rid of the law that said cops had to patrol in the city they live in. Now you get cops who live in white neighborhoods coming into these "bad" neighborhoods not knowing how to conduct themselves.
What they need to do is make the cops do some community service or spend some time with families of the people they're falsely arresting.