The Sad Truth you are ignoring is the vast majority of crime happens in areas that are dominated by black people. All reasonable people wish that were not the case but it is what it is. Your "racism" take is false and without merit.
Any Memphis Area Dawgs Following the Tyre Nichols Story?
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So you know this, yet still think police are the problem? What are you trying to prove to yourself? That police can be perfect? Not happening.
You'd have far more success trying to change 99% of criminals, rather than changing 1% of police.
THAT is how silly your viewpoint really is.
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And what types of arrests would you prefer not happen? I'll start by pissing off my fellow conservatives here by saying the war on drugs has been just as destructive and futile as the war on poverty.
The vast number of crimes happen in areas with high poverty rates. Black areas are typically more often than not always high poverty rates.
Check out poor white neighborhoods with low education and tell me how their numbers look. Almost exactly like black neighborhoods.
It's not the fault of cops that blacks commit more crimes than whites on a percentage basis but that's what you are promoting. Sad.
To criminals, yeah.
Now do violent white criminals versus violent black criminals. This is the point.
The most surprising stat to me is that less than 1,000 people are killed annually by police in this country with some very violent areas. Seems pretty impressive since I have a feeling 90%+ of those were completely justified.
Wonder how much property damage to innocents and injuries and deaths arise out of protests over the very few unjustified and the many justified police shootings?
Jacob Blake springs to mind.
Wonder how much property damage to innocents and injuries and deaths arise out of protests over the very few unjustified and the many justified police shootings?
Jacob Blake springs to mind.
You’re not wrong. Politicians, DAs, judges, and LEOs don’t fix those problems. Parents do.
Powers that be decided that showing black officers beating a black man wouldn’t have the same political effect they hoped!
Maybe they shouldn’t let someone out with no bail for stealing a car and there would be less arrests.
Oh and at least one less dead black person.
Imagine if the media showed 10 police shootings per year with this break down
4 whites being killed
3 blacks
2 hispankcs
1 Asian
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9 blacks and 1 other
We wouldn’t be talking about police shootings at all.
agree 100% with the first part.... disagree with the second part only because they are too stupid to know the law of the jungle. no respect, just stupid...
No you are 100% wrong.
it’s exactly 1.9:1 since 2015
1,904 blacks
3,615 whites
On this we can all agree.I miss threaded view too
I'm not against additional training for police but how does that become the go to remedy? How about additional training for DA's and judges to make sure repeat offenders aren't hitting the streets? How about additional training for voters to make sure they are properly informed when voting for DAs and judges to ensure individuals who will uphold the law are elected to those positions.
Certainly all possibilities. Appreciate the thoughtful engagement over name calling just because there is disagreement. Refreshing to see some thought put into a response.
I didn’t read the whole thread because I get tired of the arguing so this may have been posted. The cops are facing charges, they shouldn’t have beat that guy to death, we know what the death penalty is for, and running from the cops isn’t it.
The pic I saw is bad, his face is unrecognizable. Just senseless IMO, they murdered the guy, and now they will face a jury of their peers. We can’t allow LE to do this. When a peep isn’t a threat to the life of the cop(s), deadly force should never be considered.
I see the police encounters stats argument, which is ********, no one should ever die at the hands of LE unless a threat to them and/or others. Race of perp shouldn’t matter as well.
As far as riots, that’s just an excuse to get a free tv. I imagine DS will partake, one of his 27 tv’s has gone out.
The pic I saw is bad, his face is unrecognizable. Just senseless IMO, they murdered the guy, and now they will face a jury of their peers. We can’t allow LE to do this. When a peep isn’t a threat to the life of the cop(s), deadly force should never be considered.
I see the police encounters stats argument, which is ********, no one should ever die at the hands of LE unless a threat to them and/or others. Race of perp shouldn’t matter as well.
As far as riots, that’s just an excuse to get a free tv. I imagine DS will partake, one of his 27 tv’s has gone out.
I live in Pigeon Estates and my wife now refuses to walk by herself. They did get a pretty good picture of the car from someone's camera doorbell thank goodness, so hopefully they will be caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I told my son this morning (he's 13) that when he starts driving, NEVER EVER RUN from the cops. Doesn't matter if you think you did nothing wrong. You will not be killed or beat to within an inch of your life for complying.
Been plenty of thought into responses you’ve received.
You just don’t want to engage with people who prove you wrong.
Considering you had the second response to this thread and it contained false information this post is gold Jerry.
I’ve never had a run in with the popo but I have been pulled over a couple of handful of times, even gone thru roadblocks a few times and on one occasion with probably one beer too many but I’ve never had an issue with police.
I’m pretty sure you act decent and do what they ask of you, show some respect and basically don’t be stupid or a *****, you’re going to be ok- no matter your skin color.
Why this is so hard to comprehend is beyond me, but, as the old saying goes - you can’t fix Stupid!
I’m pretty sure you act decent and do what they ask of you, show some respect and basically don’t be stupid or a *****, you’re going to be ok- no matter your skin color.
Why this is so hard to comprehend is beyond me, but, as the old saying goes - you can’t fix Stupid!
To go ahead and push this off the political cliff - bottom line, Democrats could literally take over this country if they'd get off this 'F the police' narrative. It's sh*t like that, that will continue to keep me from voting blue, even though the Republican leaders have done just about all they can do to piss me off.
It's simple. I can't move beyond the basics. Safety is paramount. horshack is doing everything possible to convince himself that his narrative is logical, he can't because its silliness.
It's simple. I can't move beyond the basics. Safety is paramount. horshack is doing everything possible to convince himself that his narrative is logical, he can't because its silliness.
Problem is there are a lot of young people in this country who have no idea what "act decent" means because they have no positive role models in their lives.
No but they did release a pic. No motive behind this release at all.
According to Memphis WREG TV at five o-clock, all five cops are african american and have been fired. Pictures were posted in the news story.
If their offense was fireable, makes sense they should be arrested too
Pictures of officers were released to the public today and officers fired.
Rumor on video release is that National Media will be in town for Lisa Marie's funeral so they are trying to keep from mucking that up with National spotlight on them. Video to come out later next week and like many have said it's supposedly very brutal.
Maybe we should try something other than a warfare approach to our problems because we cannot win the war on either drugs or poverty. I don't have an answer myself because I'm not that smart, but I bet if we ALL discussed these subjects with zero tolerance for people who want to "win' the debate and give and take for the sake of progression, we might get somewhere.
I'm 17ing sick of our leaders arguing and never admitting they might have been wrong or acted wrongly.
The #1 thing I want to do is pay politicians on the bonus system. We have a vote every July; everyone can vote if the elected officials did a good enough job to earn a bonus reflecting their work accomplished. Use an independent group to make report cards of their work in the past year.
We all as a nation are paying too much for salary and benefits for the craptastic amount of gridlock we have to deal with.
I do know one thing: If there is one group of people who understand what it’s like to be a black man in the inner city interacting with the police it’s a bunch of white dudes from Mississippi posting on a sports message board
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Maybe if had we waited for the facts we could have actually been able to discuss police misconduct instead of racism but we as a people never wait for stupidity.
It is a disservice to the actual problems with racism to blame everything as being racist before you know what actually happened.
It creates ear fatigue.
Waiting for the facts is lacking on many topics these days. Gotta have that hot take before anyone else
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