Causes of Crime

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Zeke

And being the same race doesn't imply that the community WILL trust you.

Why don't you ask the black community that?

Maybe they feel "entitled" to have a reasonable percentage of black cops.

Your way doesn't seem to be working very well.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

If that's the case then lower the standards for blacks.

The negative effects of that are far less than the negative effects of having virtually all white Police patrolling black neighborhoods.

IMO, that seems patronizing and racist. It implies that blacks are incapable of meeting the standards.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by JJIII

IMO, that seems patronizing and racist. It implies that blacks are incapable of meeting the standards.

It does indeed. However, Tom is somehow more enlightened than us in these matters.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by finnbow

It does indeed. However, Tom is somehow more enlightened than us in these matters.

I keep forgetting that.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by JJIII

IMO, that seems patronizing and racist. It implies that blacks are incapable of meeting the standards.

First of all I'd say that any black that can meet the standards should be hired.

Number two if blacks can't meet the standards as often as whites that shows the effect that institutionalized racism has had upon them. It has nothing to do with their genetics.

Blacks, in particular black males are subjected to racism from the moment they are conceived in the womb as their mothers are more likely to be poor and therefore less likely to have access to good pre-natal care. Again due to the history of institutionalized racism. This stacking of the deck against them continues right up until they die. Even then, since they are more likely to be poor and end up in some cut rate boneyard instead of a fancy upscale cemetery, but once your dead it doesn't really matter does it?

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

It does indeed.

That's because you're a fucking idiot.

Originally Posted by finnbow

However, Tom is somehow more enlightened than us in these matters.

Not everyone, just the baggers.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by JJIII

I keep forgetting that.

I didn't forget you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlA35y0bGQc

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

That's because you're a fucking idiot.

You're the one who simultaneously wants better background checks and lower standards.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by JJIII

IMO, that seems patronizing and racist. It implies that blacks are incapable of meeting the standards.

Precisely.

It generates far more issues than Joad's manufactured one.

[Oerets]

I still say there are qualified people in the neighborhoods. Just the ones who served faithfully in the military as an example. Went to collage and so on. I know my local PD have ""requirements"" but suspect they get fudged. Just by fact it only seems to matter the last name or who you know to get hired. They make the all paperwork workout.



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