Eh. We can celebrate one person doing something heroic and acknowledging some people are generally decent people while still also acknowledging that an overall system needs to be updated and corrected and analyzed as it leads to profiling and violence.
But mostly I was waiting for the funnies. So far no one is doing funnies.
We can celebrate one person doing something heroic and acknowledging some people are generally decent people while still also acknowledging that an overall system needs to be updated and corrected and analyzed as it leads to profiling and violence.
If both those facts were acknowledged in equal measure, maybe I'd be a little more receptive to PR fluff pieces about good police. But there's way too much of the former and not enough of the latter for me to throw a (tea) party when cops do their jobs properly. As I said, I'm glad the little girl made it, but I'm also hyper aware of the fact that if she'd been the wrong skin color in the wrong neighborhood the police probably wouldn't have shown up fast enough to save her life. If they'd showed up at all.
Yeah. I can completely understand what you are saying and I'm not even sure where to start wrt addressing the structural changes there? I do think, as the poster below states, there needs to be more emphasis on doing public service and saving lives instead of just shooting folks but that also does gloss over and serve as better PR so they can ignore the bad just as much and claim "HEY! Look! We're not bad!! See?!"
So how do you weed the good from the bad and make sure the police who actually GAF are promoted and used as examples while ignoring the bad? Serious serious oversight, maybe, but that's hard to enforce because the lower you get the more groups are going to circle wagons so you can't always find problems until after they happen either.
sorry, theorizing here. Where I live the police tend to be good ol' boys but because we are fairly homogeneous they can get away with it.
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But mostly I was waiting for the funnies. So far no one is doing funnies.
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If both those facts were acknowledged in equal measure, maybe I'd be a little more receptive to PR fluff pieces about good police. But there's way too much of the former and not enough of the latter for me to throw a (tea) party when cops do their jobs properly. As I said, I'm glad the little girl made it, but I'm also hyper aware of the fact that if she'd been the wrong skin color in the wrong neighborhood the police probably wouldn't have shown up fast enough to save her life. If they'd showed up at all.
/bitter black Texan, ignore me
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So how do you weed the good from the bad and make sure the police who actually GAF are promoted and used as examples while ignoring the bad? Serious serious oversight, maybe, but that's hard to enforce because the lower you get the more groups are going to circle wagons so you can't always find problems until after they happen either.
sorry, theorizing here. Where I live the police tend to be good ol' boys but because we are fairly homogeneous they can get away with it.
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i ate the last cookie. twice.
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