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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRead This Before Calling the Police: For Wypipo Who Have Considered Cops When Privilege Wasn't Enoug
As one of the worlds foremost wypipologists, I have been tasked with addressing the newfound epidemic of Caucasian cop-summoners that just began trending around ... oh, Im going to say it started in 1619, give or take a few days.
Thats correct. None of this shit is new. White people have always loved calling the police. In fact, in newly-unearthed ship logs from the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, researchers have discovered that upon landing in the New World, Christopher Columbus first words were:
Hello 911? Id like to report some Natives trespassing on the land I just claimed for Spain.
snip
You do know they shoot black people, dont you? Calling the police on black people when they have done nothing wrong is not just racist and insensitive, it is life-threatening.
Hopefully, we can end all of this by practicing the WHITE Method for not calling the police. And if any of this offends you, think of how offended an innocent black person feels when they are confronted out of the blue by men with guns known to shoot people who look like them.
Moving forward, I hope you can do better.
Read More: https://www.theroot.com/read-this-before-calling-the-police-for-wypipo-who-hav-1826090898
Nailed it and with humor.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Perfect...KR
Cha
(297,196 posts)Especially this..
Mahalo, she
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)Thanks~
Cha
(297,196 posts)are calling 911 over Black People sleeping, sitting and not buying, BBQing, etc.. obviously have no empathy for those who have been gunned down by the police over nothing more than having a cell phone or a toy gun like Tamir Rice, walking down the road, selling cigarettes, etc etc etc
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)Something EffieBlack has been trying to get across.
NatBurner
(2,640 posts)her eloquence is ridic
EYE get on 1st with any given point
SHE hits it outta the park
from jump-
she bats us all in- how fly is that?
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)For example, the other day at the movies--Deadpool 2, which is not a quiet film--a guy sitting behind me was talking loudly on his phone. I did my usual first move, which is to turn and glare. If that doesn't work, I'll "sshhh!" followed by getting a manager to speak to the offender.
When I turned to glare, I saw that the guy was an old black man. I thought about the things Effie has been posting and instantly decided I wasn't going to be another old white lady who calls the cops on a black man. I glared, I sshhed, I whispered "Please don't talk so loud." No response, but he did get off the phone.
Another phone call. This time I just moved, but sat on the aisle on purpose, so he would see me when he left. I said to him "Shame on you." I was ready to engage verbally, which is not something I would have done before Effie Black. This may seem small and stupid, but it was profound for me.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,329 posts)privilege. "What do I gain by doing this? What do I lose? Is it necessary? What happens if I do nothing?" The WHITE method looks like a good one!
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)sheshe2
(83,751 posts)Love his writings.
MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)It's fucking divisive.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)Divide et impera, indeed.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,329 posts)Exotica
(1,461 posts)also here (I just saw this OP)
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210627566
I said Putin adores this type of shit-stir within our American zeitgeist, not that his forces are necessarily doing it. Non-linear warfare and reflexive control are never one-way or one-sided paths.
Response to Exotica (Reply #70)
NCTraveler This message was self-deleted by its author.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I have just started trashing all these threads. This one is headed to the can right now.
MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)Every kick helps.
Thanks for this one.
Thanks.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)sheshe2
(83,751 posts)To call out racism by wypipo?
Do tell.
Have you been here long Trust Buster? Have you watched the Af Ams on this site stalked off the board? Have you seen their group quietly close their doors? Have you even noticed that they are gone?
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)or the Stockholm Syndrome threads.
Or the fact that many prolific AA DUers just don't post here anymore, because of the shit they took during the 2016 primary, when primarily black voters in southern states were summarily dismissed, because "those states won't vote Democratic anyway".
Sid
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I too minimize and trivialize concepts which don't reinforce my biases (since we're going simply with 'seems' rather than 'is' ).
It's can be a tough thing to do if we don't like to be measured by our own words.
Response to MrsMatt (Reply #9)
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sheshe2
(83,751 posts)There are white people of sound mind and have hearts and souls. We are the ones that support POC and try every day to learn more. We listen. Then their are wypipo who sow divisiveness and hate. Wypipo need to start listening and adjusting some of their engrained attitude of their racist hate. Or maybe they just need to lose their white privilege they hold so dear. They are so frigging color blind that they do not know what they have and most refuse to educate themselves.
PS. Not all white people are wypipo.
MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)Especially if based on physical characteristics.
Name the behavior, not the color/race.
Turn it around. If/when white people are the minority, will it be ok to call them "wypipo"?
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)Oh I can not wait until 2043. It will no longer be a white America. So the census tells us so. They only will be called wypipo if wish to remain to be so, Their choice .
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Some folk are terrified that they will be the victims of the type of racism they now insist doesn't exist.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)Bet the 'others' will be treated far better than you and yours ever were. Time will tell, Effie.
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)And an idea I intend to throw around on a go forward basis - if you don't mind.
George II
(67,782 posts)sheshe2
(83,751 posts)it has been a day away.
catrose
(5,065 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)I think it is safe to say that you've lost this particular argument
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Better?
yonder
(9,664 posts)with respect to pale skin sunburns, this line got me laughing too:
"how are you the master race if light can kill you?"
oberliner
(58,724 posts)His writing should be banned here.
yonder
(9,664 posts)Response to oberliner (Reply #15)
sheshe2 This message was self-deleted by its author.
Some said.
Bernie Sanders Says Trump Won Because Democrats Are Out Of Touch
http://wlrn.org/post/bernie-sanders-says-trump-won-because-democrats-are-out-touch
Okay. Got it. Bernie, who is not a Democrat rips the party to shreads at every chance he gets, was supported by OUR party for his run then leaves said party before the door even hit his behind and you support him wholeheartedly. A fickle partner at best, Yet here you are:
Re: Michael Hariott.
His writing should be banned here
So the white man gets a pass from you, one who has never had to live through racism. You give them a pass He can boldly say what ever he wishes about the Democratic party because he is white and marched with Martin 50 fugging years ago. Lol...not really. Hm, yet here you are Oberliner, telling the black man that he should sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. Well Oberliner, your privilege is showing. Who should be able to speak, be banned or not banned, You chose white.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)I can't quite put my finger on what the difference is, but he's different some kind of way.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)I am so confused.
George II
(67,782 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)More specifically, what is it in the OP that should not be posted here?
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Otherwise, it's fine.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)Yet if I erase it, then it will be white.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)"how are you the master race if light can kill you?"
Thanks, yonder!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Michael Harriot is awful and should be banned here, since he encouraged people not to vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election (not the primary, the general election).
again.....
You post alot on others threads. Hm...you never posted on your Effie bashing thread. Why is that?
You seem to have a thing for Michael and Effie as well. Both are from black people about black people and their very lives,. Interesting.
ExciteBike66
(2,341 posts)but they are technically correct about the Hillary Clinton thing. This is DU, we are supposed to care about people supporting Dems in general elections.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)69. I'm not really an oberliner fan from some of his/her comments lately...
but they are technically correct about the Hillary Clinton thing. This is DU, we are supposed to care about people supporting Dems in general elections.
First of all, he is not a member here. Second of all two of Sanders good friends Killer Mike and Cornell West said the same thing...Mike also is a spokesperson for the NRA and Cornell called President Obama a 'House N***er. Are you calling for them to be "banned" as well?
Hekate
(90,674 posts)TygrBright
(20,759 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)If so, I guess I'm guilty, since I did, in fact, call the cops when a young man of color crawled univited into my apartment window in the middle of the night. In another residence, a young white man did the same thing via a slipped lock and I called the cops on him as well.
Bottom line is, I DO recognize that some white people are irrationaly fearful and overeact -- That said, crime IS an issue to which women of all colors are uniquely vulnerable, and so are realistically cautious.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)This article is talking about when people call the police on people of color when it's unlikely they'd call the police on a white person doing the same thing: napping, pushing a baby in a baby stroller, returning an item to the store, having a cookout at the park, etc. None of the people who called the police in those case were being victimized in any crime.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)You report crimes. You protect yourself and family. Always.
This is about insecure....gotta say fearful people, that fear black people doing what the rest of us do daily. Shop. sleep. return. breath. live. They report them for nothing other than white fear, they may not survive that report.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)My point being that some whites DO overreact, but to sneeringly invoke the "white privilege" meme as the cause of it all is bullshit, as these people's fears, however exaggerated, are rooted in reality. That is my only issue here.
.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Their fears of dads pushing their babies in strollers in the park?
Fears of actual crimes are reasonable, but there's nothing reasonable in those fears. Nobody calls the police on white dads pushing their babies in stroller.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)Those are the "irrationals". These people either have a hyper fear of blacks or crime or some combination of the two -- That said, it doesn't have a thing to do with "priivilege".
gollygee
(22,336 posts)and actually get the police to show up and check on a dad pushing a baby in a stroller is white privilege.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)As a group, minority men have a high crime rate -- Neurotic, overly fearful people can generalize about individuals they don't know, even those in situations which would make criminality highly unlikely.
One has to remember that there are many folks out there not playing with the proverbial full deck.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)If you generalize to the point where a dad pushing his baby in a stroller sets you off, it's still racism, whether someone is neurotic or not.
And the white privilege I'm talking about here is the knowledge that police will take that call seriously, and the knowledge that calling the police won't be dangerous for them.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)The rest is just neurotic paranoia.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)I'm sorry, but that's just absurd.
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why
Much of Shalon's research had focused on how childhood experiences affect health later on examining how kids' lives went off track, searching for ways to make them more resilient. Her discovery in mid-2016 that she was pregnant with her first child had been unexpected and thrilling.
Then the unthinkable happened. Three weeks after giving birth, Shalon collapsed and died from complications of high blood pressure.
The researcher working to eradicate disparities in health access and outcomes had become a symbol of one of the most troublesome health disparities facing black women in the U.S. today: disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality. The main federal agency seeking to understand why so many American women especially black women die, or nearly die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth had lost one of its own.
Even Shalon's many advantages her B.A. in sociology, her two master's degrees and dual-subject Ph.D., her gold-plated insurance and rock-solid support system had not been enough to ensure her survival. If a village this powerful hadn't been able to protect her, was any black woman safe
She must have been more violent? Or are the NUMBERS and STATISTICS just cutesy wootsie little neurosis?
I'm really interested in your response-
I've got a feeling I know PRECISELY what it is.
Oh and pay close attention - she wasn't a poor uneducated woman in the ghetto on welfare. IE - One of your statistics. So that 'argument' cannot be used as an excuse - and neither can the numbers.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)sheshe2
(83,751 posts)And as Michael says in the end...
And if any of this offends you, think of how offended an innocent black person feels when they are confronted out of the blue by men with guns known to shoot people who look like them.
racism
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)So what does the crime rate among black men have to do with this discussion?
whathehell
(29,067 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)them out for doing it = "Divisive racists."
Gotcha.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)but feel free to generalize, like the people you are complaining about.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)shopping. returning. living. breathing. Call 911. Doing it while black is a crime. So much fear.It is bullshit.
Do they fear the white men with the AK 15's? They should as they have killed far more.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)As you said, we shouldn't call things what they are not.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Calling by the police because people having a cook out? That could be just good ol fashioned racism.
Its the ability to have a BBQ at the neighborhood park and be 100% certain that the cops wont be called on you thats the privileged part. The part where, if you call, you know the cops probably arent going to shoot you or a loved one? Thats the privilege.
But calling he cops on a black family having a cook out? Racist and insane, but not inherently an act of privilege.
(I agree with you, though, Effie. And whatthehell has been wrong up and down the post, in my opinion. Im just jiscussing the notion of privilege)
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)to call the police because you think they don't belong.
It's all tied together.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It's also privilege to believe it is not privilege.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)and denying reality because it doesn't fit into a particular narrative is absurd.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)BBQ Lady????
She makes everyone else's claim bullshit.
So much fear. Bullshit. White privilege. Better yet, just another asshole.
Who's defending BBQ lady?
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)An intruder into your home - and calling the police is a true case of personal safety.
Calling the police because a black person walked into your store/shop - that's racist.
And - this is why the Negro Motorist Green Book is coming back. Seriously.
To challenge all of it - we can create lists of places where we can not be embarrassed, harassed, arrested, or god forbid - shot at. It's nothing 'new'. It's something old made new again.
I feel like it will actually be doing the racists and YOU a favor.
The racists can have a place where we will let black folks not to go. It will make them happy.
As our ally - you can then choose to go there, or to not.
I suspect if a valid and verified list exists like this - you won't go there whathehell. You have very little tolerance for nonsense!
whathehell
(29,067 posts)and it's easy to mock them, but they're obviously a minority -- trying to turn this into some racial phenomenon like "white fragility"
while overlooking the real issue of violent crime, is just as silly.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)society. And it IS a racial phenomenon, no matter how much you try to defend and deflect it.
The Klan was a minority. White women who falsely accused black men of rape and got them lynched, executed and imprisoned were a minority. Cops who shoot and kill innocent, unarmed black men are a minority. That doesnt make any of that less poisonous or less of a racial phenomenon.
And no one is overlooking the issue of violent crime. Thats a bullshit, red herring, dog-whistle argument better suited for venues other than this.
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)I think the insulation of privilege sometimes make people think or 'fa la la la deal with it'.
Except - deal with it or not -
It's getting us killed. If you really think back - had the Zimpig just followed orders - all of this and I mean ALL of it could have been avoided. In that case an asshole not only called the cops, but made sure his VICTIM indeed got shot to death.
When they call the cops on us for walking to our homes - it is over the top.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)And then got away with it.
Privilege on steroids.
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)IE Overlooking the real issue of violent crime.
And White Fragility is not a 'racial phenomenon'.
It's just not. Agree to disagree.
If a 'supposed' grown person can't handle having a serious character flaw pointed out - then they are being 'fragile'.
Woman Up, Man Up, and deal with it. There is a certain ilk in this country that thinks their fears about violent crime in Chicago has one iota to do with me. When I point out - hey - I'm in horse country NJ - and they continue to point it out - they are just an asshole and I WILL make fun of them.
While they were all whining - I took a job from one of 'them' with a significant pay increase enabling me to increase my donation to the UNCF. And then they whine like little babies about that. Whaaa Whaaa not fair.
I'm so over them. And yes - I look down on them and make fun of them. I don't see what the issue is. It's not like I go to their house and knock on their door and do it to their face.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)The fact that the only crimes I read about on DU are those committed by cops against black men, make me question that.
Beyond that, I must tell you I AGREE that individuals with character flaws, like the paranoid whites mentioned, should be able to handle it, the PROBLEM arises when phrases like "white" fragility are used to characterize it -- It then becomes a broad-brush racial insult.
Your story about white people assuming you are somehow connected to "Chicago crime" is instructive -- Of course it's silly to conflate you with that, as silly as conflating Me, a two time white violent crime victim who DOES live in Chicago, with some condescending "white fragility" crap.
.THIS is what's wrong with stereotyping ANY one group of people Since its impossible to know everyone personally, we all do it, but it should be avoided ESPECIALLY on a board where a diverse group of people come together, purportedly, to solve common problems.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)If someone is breaking into your house, you call the police. Period.
Doesn't matter what colour their skin is.
FFS.
Sid
whathehell
(29,067 posts)In this country, mnorities commit a disproportionate amount of violent crimes. Knowing this, most respond realistically and a few overreact. FFS indeed..
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)There is a tremendous amount of subjectivity built into the numbers you are treating as objective indicia.
1. A subjective decision to call the police - and we know that people are more likely to call the police on blacks than they are on whites - so even when there is nothing objectively criminal, police will be on the scene, giving the first subjective bump to the black violent crime rate.
2. A subjective decision of the police to arrest. Police have considerable discretion in making the decision to arrest. As we saw in Starbucks - they arrested two black men who were trespassing (so the arrest was permitted) - but very few people in their right minds believe they would have arrested white men engaged in the same behavior. The same happens with violent crime, giving the second subjective bump to the black violent crime rate.
3. A subjective decision of charging prosecutor. Every study I've ever read is very clear that when a white person and a black person are engaging in the same behavior, the black person is statistically more likely to be charged with a more serious offense than the white person - so some violent crimes by whites will be charged as non-violent, and prosecutors will stretch the limits of non-violent crimes and charge blacks for violent crimes when a more supportable charge would have been a non-violent offense.
4. The decision of the jurors or judge as to whether the person charged actually committed the crime. This should be objective - but, again, every study suggest that when charged with a crime, blacks are more likely to be convicted.
5. One final subjective decision - less relevant to this cycle, aside from the impact it has on the lives of blacks- sentences imposed on blacks are harsher for the same crimes.
So the "minorities commit a disproportionate amount of violent crimes" you are relying on in making your first subjective decision to call the police may not be true in the first place (or at there may be dramatically less distinction in the rate of commission of violent crimes), which ultimately drives the perception that blacks commit more violent crimes up, an it becomes a feedback loop of successive subjective decisions that each make it more likely that the next subjective decision will go against blacks.
Here are a couple of resources - it's been a few years since I studied this in depth (in connection with the death penalty) so I don't have my older resources at my fingertips. But the principles are the same, and are applicable through this entire chain.
http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty/pedagogy/LLu-Prosecutorial-Discretion-and-Racial-Disparities.pdf
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6b23/24a9d3417fb914f3c5baf4d9a8c76f2038fb.pdf
Bottom line: your apparently objective statement that "mnorities commit a disproportionate amount of violent crimes," is far less objective than you believe it to be.
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EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)tonedevil
(3,022 posts)Since you only mentioned violence that was perpetrated by black people it looks like you are saying that black people are more criminal and dangerous than white people.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)Top-Hat
(11 posts)For violent crimes, such as murder and sexual assault, the effect of prosecutorial discretion and juror subjectivity would seem to skew the statistics more around the edges.
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)In fact most of my research was on murder - specifically.
Just as to one specific example - in Nebraska death-eligible murders are nearly exclusively charged in Lincoln and Omaha. (Death penalty cases are so expensive because the county bears the cost of the appeals, so no rural county can afford the discretion of making a death-eligible charge, regardless of how heinous the offense.) Guess where virtually all of the minority population in Nebraska lives?
So the current population of death row in Nebraska is 27:27:45 (black, white, hispanic); Nebraska, itself, is 1: 9:86 (4% other races). The racial disparity in death row population, compared to the rest of the state, is significantly influenced by the more heavily minority counties that can afford to exercise their discretion to charge a defendant with aggravated murder.
There is no logical reason that prosecutors (or jurors) would be better able to counter their biases based on the crimes being violent crimes.
clearly an ouch for some nerves.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)hopefully.
brer cat
(24,562 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Bok_Tukalo
(4,322 posts)<OPE>
Mike Rows His Boat
(389 posts)Oneironaut
(5,493 posts)I was a sheltered suburb kid. Some of the ideas I used to have about minorities 15 years ago are pretty cringey. Luckily, i changed. So can everyone else.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)That's the job of the police. Serve and protect.
It's the police's job properly evaluate the situation. And then address it by either dealing with the subject of the call, or having a conversation with the caller.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Feeling unsafe because you see a dad pushing a baby in a stroller? That's racism.
This is how systemic racism works. People call because they feel unsafe, when there is really no safety issue, but they are entitled to do so. And they very much feel entitled. Then police show up, and they're just doing their job. This is literally how systemic racism works.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)But I would agree that it's racism.
curiously, racism isn't actually illegal except in certain narrowly defined situations such as hiring, firing, renting etc.
It's literally not illegal for someone to feel fear of people of another race...even if they are just pushing a stroller
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)just fucked up.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)and are neurotic.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)at least not singularly, but when one's a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes?
whathehell
(29,067 posts)A few neurotics does not a Racial Phenomenon make.
JI7
(89,248 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)Last edited Mon May 28, 2018, 07:55 AM - Edit history (1)
or students falling asleep in libraries -- That conflation doesn't work.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)A minority of people - even just a handful - can trigger it, the institutions step in to back them up and when people are harmed by it, a significant number of the majority either just shrug their shoulders and then defend the behavior as necessary or understandable, blame the victim for not doing enough to avoid being victimized, or as you always seem so eager to do for some reason, insist that its no big deal because its only a few people doing it - and then try to deflect attention and shift responsibility by accusing those of us pointing it of such things of being divisive and overlooking violent crime.
Thats how structural racism is intended to work and, thanks to too many well-meaning white folk, it works beautifully.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)Sancho
(9,067 posts)I'm an educator (40+ years), and I know what happens when you call the cops on kids. It turns a discipline issue into a confrontation with a criminal. When there are no cops stationed in the school, you buzz the office and the principal shows up and the disruption results in a call to the parents or prescribed punishment. The school without an SRO has a staff plan, parents are informed, and the school has to organize the response to misbehavior.
Since they started put SROs (school resource officers) in schools, calls often result in handcuffs and a trip to the juvenile assessment center. A court date and hearing with a judge is next - and the court will order community service and blame the parents.
The vast majority of "arrests" are MINORITY students. The schools with SROs don't have student management plans, communication with parents, or logical consequences any more - because they depend on the SRO for "discipline". The only tool that SROs have are intimidation and force. The SRO doesn't usually know who is in special education, the classroom context, or student history.
Virtually EVERY middle school/high school student will have an emotional day, do something stupid, or have altercation. If you remember your school days as an adolescent, you can surely remember something about yourself. The statistics are clear - staff will call an SRO if one is available on campus, even for a small issue. The black or Hispanic students will be treated more harshly, and hauled off more often, than the Wypipos!!! We don't even need to get into calls to the cops because a black parent cut you off in the pick up line!!
In my class, "It's a good day when the cops come and don't take anyone with them!" I've been called out for saying that publicly by the way.
Like others have said, dial 911 if it's a real emergency, but an on-duty cop down the hall is an easy invite for discrimination!