Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
I wonder if we should reflect on historical data relating to crime.
Every week we see video evidence of our police forces acting like a latter day gestapo. Racial profiling, violence and public executions are being captured by dash cams , mobile phones and other devices. Its an eyeopener for some of us and of course some of the trumpers on here get off on it.
It does call into question the police actions in the days before a universal video facility. How many victims were framed ? How many were killed ? Without video evidence we can only speculate.
Look at the Rodney King assaults. If it had not been captured on film people would not have been aware of the crime. George Floyd is another victim and the jogger guy in Atlanta. The Wisconsin execution is the latest.
In the UK we are now seeing the extent of our police racism. People are now able to capture their encounters with the police. Just recently 3 people in London. An Olympic sprinter, a Police Inspector and a Labour MP, all of them black, have filmed themselves being stopped by racist police officers primarily because they were black.
British folk were rocked by the Brixton riots in the early 80s but it is obvious that the community was provoked beyond measure by a police force that was dubbed "institutionally racist".
I suspect that there have been many Rodney Kings and I suspect that our police forces have operated with impunity against minorities in the pre digital age.
To me it invalidates all crime data from this era. We are being asked to accept crime figures based on the actions of a corrupt police establishment. The figures are racist and help to reinforce racist stereotypes.
There needs to be a rebalancing of our societies, the stables need cleaning out.
Every week we see video evidence of our police forces acting like a latter day gestapo. Racial profiling, violence and public executions are being captured by dash cams , mobile phones and other devices. Its an eyeopener for some of us and of course some of the trumpers on here get off on it.
It does call into question the police actions in the days before a universal video facility. How many victims were framed ? How many were killed ? Without video evidence we can only speculate.
Look at the Rodney King assaults. If it had not been captured on film people would not have been aware of the crime. George Floyd is another victim and the jogger guy in Atlanta. The Wisconsin execution is the latest.
In the UK we are now seeing the extent of our police racism. People are now able to capture their encounters with the police. Just recently 3 people in London. An Olympic sprinter, a Police Inspector and a Labour MP, all of them black, have filmed themselves being stopped by racist police officers primarily because they were black.
British folk were rocked by the Brixton riots in the early 80s but it is obvious that the community was provoked beyond measure by a police force that was dubbed "institutionally racist".
I suspect that there have been many Rodney Kings and I suspect that our police forces have operated with impunity against minorities in the pre digital age.
To me it invalidates all crime data from this era. We are being asked to accept crime figures based on the actions of a corrupt police establishment. The figures are racist and help to reinforce racist stereotypes.
There needs to be a rebalancing of our societies, the stables need cleaning out.