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Obviously this means they get

rmrd0000 — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:22:37 +0000

In reply to 1. The #BLM approach to

Obviously this means they get a free shot at everybody.

Edit to add:

Stop and Frisk made some people feel safe

It made 90% of people stopped feel like targets.

Police community relations were not improved.

I refuse to give up my right to be treated with dignity to soothe a police officer's fears.

That is a police state.

In a recent incident a woman and her young relatives were forced onto hot asphalt for a bogus police stop

Coleman is free to sacrifice his relatives to that treatment, my relatives expect better.

1. The #BLM approach to

artappraiser — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:21:32 +0000

In reply to Obama recommends on police reform

1. The #BLM approach to analyzing police shootings assumes that things like this don't happen: https://t.co/Th2BkosGbO

Every cop must have this in their head as a non-zero possibility when they make a routine traffic stop.
— Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) August 27, 2020

2. A cop gets shot almost every day in America: https://t.co/vDrzjBrKcm

This makes policing in America fundamentally different from policing in Europe, where cops have (almost) no reason to fear being shot.
— Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) August 27, 2020

81% of Black Americans Don't

artappraiser — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 04:00:59 +0000

In reply to Obama recommends on police reform

81% of Black Americans Don't Want Less Police Presence Despite Protests—Some Want More Cops: Poll

By Jocelyn Grzeszczak @ Newsweek.com, Aug. 5

A majority of Black Americans have said they want police presence in their area to either remain the same or increase, despite recent protests over police brutality, according to new polls.

A Gallup poll conducted from June 23 to July 6 surveying more than 36,000 U.S. adults found that 61 percent of Black Americans said they'd like police to spend the same amount of time in their community, while 20 percent answered they'd like to see more police, totaling 81 percent. Just 19 percent of those polled said they wanted police to spend less time in their area.

Black Americans' responses to the question were nearly on par with the national average, in which 67 percent of all U.S. adults said they wanted police presence to remain the same and 19 percent said they wanted it to increase.

The poll's results come amid continuing nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism. The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, which activists founded in 2013, has led the U.S. to its largest collective push for civil rights since the 1960s.

Calls to defund and even abolish entire police departments are popular talking points among BLM activists. Miski Noor, an organizer and activist with Black Visions Collective in Minnesota, recently told WBUR that abolitionists "100 percent" mean they want no more police officers.

On May 30, five days after George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, BLM called for the of defunding police in a statement on its website [....]

Ah now here we have the hard

artappraiser — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 23:26:08 +0000

In reply to Obama recommends on police reform

Ah now here we have the hard complicated truth as I see it after reading a gazillion things on topic. And I suspect Obama might agree-so I am plopping it here- he's a smart and reasonable cookie who has talked to a lot of folks about things like this and policy and realities, and thought long and hard about it since his community organizing days, not to mention seen how policing works out around the world. He's just not ready and able to admit this reality for political reasons, maybe never will be able to:

"The protests were whiter than the police department’

Peter Moskos – sociologist and former Baltimore cop – talks to spiked about race, policing and mass incarceration.

By Tom Slater, Deputy Editor @ Spiked-online.com, July 27

I question this story. He

rmrd0000 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 02:39:37 +0000

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I question this story. He says blacks and Latinos wanted to talk to him, but the conversation was stopped by white people, repeatedly. No black or Latino person told the white person to STFU?

Portland had the highest

artappraiser — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:05:50 +0000

In reply to Obama recommends on police reform

Portland had the highest number of homicides of any single month in three decades. The police are tied up defending a courthouse that rioters are trying to burn down for...reasonshttps://t.co/7XfBJ6Lhjn
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 2, 2020

Doleac is Economics professor

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 03:13:16 +0000

In reply to Obama recommends on police reform

Doleac is Economics professor @TAMU, Director @JusticeTechLab, Host of the @ProbCausation podcast. I study crime & discrimination.

I talked with @mattyglesias about policing and recidivism and the role of research in improving criminal justice policy. Check out the latest episode of The Weeds:https://t.co/sPDAOgW39m
— Jennifer Doleac (@jenniferdoleac) July 24, 2020

^A "must watch". Intelligent

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:05:20 +0000

In reply to Black officer in Portland

^A "must watch". Intelligent cop with history degree with his own earnest grievances about adolescent "BLM" protesters.

Black officer in Portland

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:59:23 +0000

In reply to Obama recommends on police reform

Black officer in Portland describes street confrontations between violent crowds of protesters far more white than the heavily minority police forces trying to maintain order https://t.co/5kaD8vmiUd
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 16, 2020

Things aren't looking good

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 05:29:13 +0000

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Things aren't looking good for the NYPD becoming open to acting more humanely towards strangers::

You don't see this every day. "Highest-ranking officer" means just that. (The commissioner is a civilian appointment.) "Terence A. Monahan, New York’s highest-ranking uniformed chief, was one of several officers who were attacked on the Brooklyn Bridge." https://t.co/pGg4JMFyeq
— Bad Hombre "remains silent" Moskos (@PeterMoskos) July 16, 2020

I don't see no de-escalation or non-violent theory here. I see tribal hatreds.