oski003 said:
Unit2Sucks said:
oski003 said:
going4roses said:
Does the application ask if one identifies/associates/co mingles with racist/fascists/white supremacists ?
I am guessing just like society's bad apples grow to hate cops, cops grow to hate society's bad apples. There is unfortunate prejudice on both sides.
Please connect the dots between cops identifying as "racist/fascists/white supremacists" and "cops grow to hate society's bad apples."
The last sentence about unfortunate prejudice connects the dots. Black Americans commit crimes at a higher rate than others so cops develop a prejudice against black Americans. Generally, cops also are more likely to have negative encounters with black Americans than other races. This develops or reinforces a stereotype. This goes both ways as black Americans develop a negative stereotype against cops based on their bad behaviors, abuses of power, and negative interactions.
I dunno man.
With
stop and frisk in NYC, cops were far more likely to target people of color, but white people were more likely to have weapons. Who are the bad apples there?
Cops stop black drivers 3x more than white drivers, but
are more likely to find drugs and weapons when they stop white drivers. Who are the bad apples there?
The bolded sentence in your comment is doing a lot of work. Maybe if they stopped disproportionately targeting black men, they wouldn't be more likely to have negative encounters with black people.
By the way, if you re-read your initial post in the context of G4R's comment, you might realize that it appears to say that black people are society's bad apples. I do agree that stereotypes are bad and that it appears to be a vicious cycle of police brutality and targeting of black communities that leads to cops having more negative experiences with black people than they otherwise should. I think that mitigations and regulations put in place to curb racial profiling should be effective in reducing these harmful police practices.