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In reply to the discussion: They Ask For Sympathy and Respect, But Showed None For The Victim ---> [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)8. They don't even give a shit when they kill one of their own
when the officer was black or Hispanic -
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If you speak with nine out of 10 officers of color they would tell you that when they hear sirens, in their head they are thinking: I hope these cops know that Im one of the good guys.
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It is naïve to assume that our department is driven by racism, Dr. Haberfeld says. Your experience will be based on what you encounter, and its natural to build up a profile.
But some black officers and academics counter that this is too easy. If it was just a mistake, we would see more of these mistakes with officers of different colors, said Prof. Delores Jones-Brown, director of John Jays Center on Race, Crime and Justice.
Instinctual judgments about race and crime are woven into the culture of the streets. We tend to pretend in the police force that we dont see race, we dont see ethnicity, but we do, said Senator Adams, the former police captain. One of my cops once said that if he sees a non-uniformed black man with a gun, he takes precautions for himself; if he sees a white guy with a gun, he takes precautions for both because he knows it could be a fellow cop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/nyregion/31friendly.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
If you speak with nine out of 10 officers of color they would tell you that when they hear sirens, in their head they are thinking: I hope these cops know that Im one of the good guys.
<...>
It is naïve to assume that our department is driven by racism, Dr. Haberfeld says. Your experience will be based on what you encounter, and its natural to build up a profile.
But some black officers and academics counter that this is too easy. If it was just a mistake, we would see more of these mistakes with officers of different colors, said Prof. Delores Jones-Brown, director of John Jays Center on Race, Crime and Justice.
Instinctual judgments about race and crime are woven into the culture of the streets. We tend to pretend in the police force that we dont see race, we dont see ethnicity, but we do, said Senator Adams, the former police captain. One of my cops once said that if he sees a non-uniformed black man with a gun, he takes precautions for himself; if he sees a white guy with a gun, he takes precautions for both because he knows it could be a fellow cop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/nyregion/31friendly.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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They Ask For Sympathy and Respect, But Showed None For The Victim ---> [View all]
napkinz
Dec 2014
OP
"Very disturbing" should be nominated for Understatement of the Year, imo - nt
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#15
Have any of the officers in these photos been publicly identified yet? - nt
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#7
Authoritarians don't respect those that they control. You can see it in their words and deeds.
Rex
Dec 2014
#9
Yes, notice he could not believe it - therefore meaning his racist mind would not grasp
Rex
Dec 2014
#26
Stunning cluelessness. Very narrow definitions. Let's reinvent the wheel, huh?
freshwest
Dec 2014
#20
if "Black Lives Matter" gets blamed for the deaths of NY officers, why isn't the far-right blamed
napkinz
Dec 2014
#23
This needs to be posted more often, and I wish there was a way to get Lynch to answer in public!
freshwest
Dec 2014
#27
Bad Breath Alert!! What a bunch of heartless creepy dickwads. Fuck the NYPD!! nt
99th_Monkey
Dec 2014
#22