I didn't say don't punish people for crimes committed, did I?
What I'm saying is make education better, make opportunities for all based on ability rather than the money you're born into, make sure everyone is getting through high school, make sure school is relevant to their life as an adult by teaching skills that will be useful.
Technical schools for those who want to go that route, academic schools for those who want to follow that route. Make sure they're learning about how to be good human beings, make sure they're learning critical thinking skills, cooking skills, being made aware of the people around them, the consequences of the actions they make.
Let's change things so they make sense and are relevant to people's lives.
There's opportunities like that available today, opportunities passed up by black people who would rather deal drugs. What does that have to do with justifiable police shootings being recast as racial oppression?
Oh come on. People would much rather do things legally than illegally. However many "would rather deal drugs" than what? What deals are they passing up on?
Often they see what their society is like, their inner city areas, those around them who never make it. Those who stick to the straight and narrow and end up working in McDonalds. Where are these opportunities they're passing up on?
What does all this have to do with police shootings etc?
People start getting angry when they see no other choice, that's what.
Ridiculous. Blacks deal drugs because it can be more lucrative than toiling for an honest buck. Which still has nothing to do with protesting justifiable police shootings as if they were some sort of injustice.
People will try and make money. If dealing drugs is far more lucrative than anything they can get, then they will do this. When you have inner city areas which don't provide opportunities then people are going to go for the money.
If you haven't given them the chance to get a decent job, then they'll go for that.
The biggest problem in inner cities is that they've been allowed to fester, to the point where dealing drugs is actually seen as normal. Where being in a gang is seen as normal. The break up of the family, the lack of support for kids, and gangs are suddenly a better option.
This isn't a simple topic, there are lots of areas in which you could go into detail and see the effects of many things. The easy thing here is that the govt isn't dealing with any of them effectively, so the problems continue.
As for police shootings. The police do a very difficult job. Their job is far, far more dangerous and difficult than their counterparts in other first world countries.
2016
85 police officers have been killed in the line of duty this year in the USA.
2 from Assault, 39 from gun fire, 10 from vehicular assault.
In 2015 it was 130 deaths
2014 145
2012 124
List of British police officers killed in the line of duty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the UK, which has a population 5 times lower than the US, in 2015 there was one. In 2014 there were none. In 2013 there was one, in 2012 there were 3, 2011 and 2012 there were none.
List of Gardaà killed in the line of duty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Ireland with a population of 6 million, 50 times smaller, there was one in 2015, one in 2013, one in 2011, two in 2009.
Do you see the difference here?
The job is harder. And the police are more on edge, the criminals are far more likely to have guns, and far more likely to use them,