Salt Jones
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Police focus their efforts on neighborhoods with the most violent crime. Not on the race of those in that neighborhood. Almost every single study done in major and small cities show violent crime is committed in any range from 60% to as high as 90% by minorities. However, every police study also shows a stronger correlation to poverty and crime than race. Unfortunately, some races are afflicted by poverty more than others, for many reasons that belong in another thread.
But....your assumption is simpy innaccurate. Especially with the recent decades surge in the hiring of black, asian and hispanic cops.
Now, care to address the OP?
What does the race of the cop have to do with anything? A cop is a cop, is a cop. Throughout the history of this country some of the most abusive cops toward blacks have been black cops.
You stick to your "studies" and I'll rely on my 48 years of being a black man who witnessed the disparity in police treatment of whites and blacks growing up in a majority white rural area and that same disparity while living in urban areas while being stationed all over America while serving in the military.
If you've never been white, how do you know whites aren't treated unfair also? You just want to be a victim. You are told that cops do that, so every encounter you have with one you automatically assume his intentions are racial. However, when a crime happens, and the fleeing suspect is a black male, its natural that cops in the area responding will look at black males to see if they are acting suspicious. And black males commit a massively higher percentage of violent crime, thus, putting many innocent black males into the police attention immediately following a crime. Sounds like your gripe is with the wrong people.
Your gripe was valid in the civil rights era and before. But as time goes on......so to mindsets and attitudes. And yes, studies by brilliant people have shown this. I can accept, however, that being your age and seeing the cops in the civil rights era would cause you to believe all cops today are like that, and it's simply not true.
Growing up the police would take the white kids that they caught with weed or drinking home and talk to their parents, while us black kids went to jail or juvenile hall.
You have no clue as to what I have experienced with police. I was not "told", I witnessed all that I talk about. I had a friend, an E-5 black Sailor, who had tinted windows and Nevada tags on his SUV, we were stationed in San Diego at the time. He was pulled over and made to perform a sobriety test, the part about standing on one leg. The cop made him use his left leg and raise the right leg about 5 times. My friend had just had surgery on his left knee and had a brace on it. By the end of the "test" he could barely stand and was covered in sweat. Finally the cop said he was borderline and let us go. I was riding with my friend and witnessed this, along with 3 cops who arrived as soon as we were stopped. This is just one of many experiences I had with the police during my 20 years in the military.
P.S. I have no criminal record and retired from the military after 20 years.