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We probably don't have large

rmrd0000 — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 02:38:13 +0000

In reply to I used the word racist, and

We probably don't have large disagreement on this issue. The major difference is that if a minority person ventures into a high end community where the police cannot identify the minority person's vehicle, there can be problems. The police will ask why a minority is in such a nice vehicle in such an upper class neighborhood

Racism may not have decreased, but police have learned not to express overt racist behavior. We have gone from calling someone N****r to saying that the minority was going for an officer's gun or the minority made a reach towards his own waistband.

I used the word racist, and

artappraiser — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:22:05 +0000

In reply to I'm not sure that the Black

I used the word racist, and not any other kind of words like "minority community" for a reason.

I think the NYPD overall is much less racist than it was in the 8o's when it was all white Irish guys.

It's probably mostly a semantic difference we are getting into here, where I use the term racist much more literally than you do. But I think it's an important semantic difference.

For example, they don't much stop and frisk people with black skin who are among the shoppers on Upper Madison Avenue looking checking out Louboutins, Italian lingerie and snacking on $50 salami..Now I've read enough stories that would suggest that some of the sales clerks and taxi drivers in that hood are still racist. But I don't think the cops are. They don't ask Bill Cosby what he's doing standing in front of the door to his $20 million townhouse just off Madison. They probably all know he lives there. I know for a fact that they treat all the employees at the Cameroon consulate in the same nabe with almost too much respect, even though they have the darkest skin one could have. I think it's because they speak French, but who knows, maybe it's because they pay them off.

I am sticking to it: I think the NYPD has become less racist.

Yes, they target "minority communities," waht they do is they target "minority communities" that are high crime communities. This does not equal racism on their part. If they had a bunch of poor white trash skinheads living segregated in poor council flat neighborhoods like in England, I bet they would target all the kids that in that hood that looked like those skinheads. This is not racism

Did you ever think that when you use the term "minority community" as if it is something to be proud of, that it is giving a blessing to the idea of segregation? It strikes me that way. I'm a staunch believer in integration of all kinds.being good for mankind. So the pride of "minority communities" sort of sticks in my craw. Especially when the results of segregation into minority communities ends up in a bunch of people self-reinforcing generaional failure and high crime.

As I suggested on another thread, if there wasn't segregation of one race of poor people like in places like Ferguson, there'd be less targeting of people by skin color.. It's about segregation, when you segregate yourselves into one community, people are going to make generalizations.

Goes without saying that I don't think police brutality is a solution to the problem. It's self-defeating, actually. But always promoting minority communities as if they are something good, that I think is self-defeating too. Even when it's like, Russian Jews from the Soviet Union or Bengalis and not high crime. It's makes for very closed minds on the inside and people making generalizations from the outside, including police.

In mixed neighborhoods, brutal cops don't even know what skin color to target. They get all confused and like, pick on 76-year-old Hispanic men. Segregation, including self-segregation, promoting "minority communities" as if they are something good, that's at the heart of the problem here.

When there is law enforcement, with people being invested with great power over others, there is always going to be abuse. That's something that can't totally be erased. But this targeting of "minority communities," well if they were fewer of them in very bad shape, it would go away. They would then target "poor, crime ridden neighborhoods" no matter the color of the skin.

Sorry to butt in. Message to

Oxy Mora — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:45:53 +0000

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Sorry to butt in. Message to the Management. I wrote a blog just now. It's in my "account" but can't seem to get it published. Thanks.

It is; I suspect they are

Resistance — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:28:16 +0000

In reply to Sad

It is; I suspect they are gearing up and having equipment distributed nearby doesn't hurt if Martial Law is invoked.

Sad

rmrd0000 — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:52:34 +0000

In reply to Think rmrd

Sad

I thought not

Resistance — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:50:38 +0000

In reply to Lanza didn't wave a gun in a

I thought not

I thought so

I wasn't responding to your browbeating video, as I said I too was slightly off topic

Some said the police in the Jodi Arias case, brow beat her for hours. From videos I've seen and the subsequent trial it appears she is a compulsive liar.

Think rmrd

Resistance — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:12:07 +0000

In reply to Resistance, you did not read

Think rmrd

where the issue even came up.

YET

It seems every law has a slippery slope that will be used in future events.

Resistance, you did not read

rmrd0000 — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:34:07 +0000

In reply to Give MRAP vehicles to cab

Resistance, you did not read the entire article from snopes, did you? You took a snippet that fit your opinion. The law you cited applies to personal aid to a police officer. It says nothing about use of personal property like a car by the police. If fact, snopes could not find a California case where the issue even came up.

Try again

Lanza didn't wave a gun in a

rmrd0000 — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:23:50 +0000

In reply to Slightly off topic

Lanza didn't wave a gun in a park. Do you have something that relates to a guy with the homicide of someone with a BB gun sold by WalMart? Do you have something related to the brow-beating the dead man's girlfriend underwent?

I thought not.

Slightly off topic

Resistance — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:21:31 +0000

In reply to Slightly off topic but here

Slightly off topic

On first sight would you imagine this is a kid capable of killing many?

Imagine if you'd have seen a similar kid, swinging a gun around in a park? Or in a Walmart? Would you have grabbed your Taser first? Believing the gun in his hand wasn't real?