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Originally Posted by Bellavita
Yes let’s do nothing
Blame the poorest
Keep our heads in the sand
This post is well written white speak
I suggest you walk a mile in another mans moccasins
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The problem with a lot of people who post here and elsewhere know not of what they speak. My experience as a P.O. in a black housing project for 5 years: The unit was a mixed unit with one black officer and one white officer in each patrol car. Some cars had two black officers. Some cars had one white officer. Often times my observation was that the cars with two black officers were quicker to use use force in arrests than the white officers. The occupants of the project did not respect the black officers any more than the white officers. Some of the occupants were doing their best to raise their family and improve their situation to leave the project, while others had no inclination to do anything to improve their situation.
Police officers are not the problem. Statistics shows that. Systemic racism is a buzz word which people are using to blur the lines and discount the inherent problem that not all people are good, bias works both ways, opportunists and politicians will say and do anything to to further their own agenda.
The current frenzy is being ginned up by the media and groups which are seeking power in the vacuum created by elected officials who have abdicated their role in protecting the citizens of this country.