Nas wrote:
badrogue17 wrote:
Nas wrote:
badrogue17 wrote:
Nas wrote:
It's not entirely about how swiftly someone was charged. It's about people being tired of it happening.
If this is truly the case there will be rioting until the end of time. There is no way you can stop people from making bad decisions or expect them to make the correct choice every time . So then it has to go back about being satisfied that the police are charged with the crime, terminated, and the case to go through the court system and whatever the result ends up being, it is.
Angry people don't always think rationally. Most of the time people just want to feel like they're being heard.
Then what, outside of firing, charging and arresting the officer can be done to make people think theyre being heard ? They can put him and the next 25 cops who do this in jail and the 26th time it happens, there will be rioting.
I'm not going to pretend that I have the answers because I don't. I think mutual respect is required.
Everyone of us will likely encounter an asshole cop a couple of times in our lives regardless of your economic status. Those experiences don't make all/most cops bad, racist or any other negative label. We all make mistakes and we all have bad days.
What I think many of us fail to understand is that when you are young and/or poor (regardless of race) these "bad" encounters are more frequent. The abuses of power are more likely. Race of the cop doesn't matter either. Most poor people would probably tell you that they have been abused by more cops who look like them than ones that don't.
How do you change this? I don't have a clue. People with power will do stupid shit and people without power love challenging authority. I believe having more cops work in the community they live with could help. You are more likely to respect your neighbor. You're also more likely to give your neighbor the benefit of the doubt. More community outreach is also needed.
The problem is some people tend to stereotype cops as being dicks/racist/power-hungry.
I was thrown up against the fence outside my own house at 16 by a white cop who said I matched the description of someone who robbed a store.
I was stopped driving through a small Missouri town by a white cop for no other reason that I can think of other than having Illinois plates.
I realize that there are asshole cops but also know the majority of them are good people. That's why I get upset when cops are shot, assaulted, or their precinct is burned down. Many of those cops probably are the ones who reach out to at-risk youth to help them, protect abused women from their abusers, and are completely color-blind. We have to identify those asshole cops who think they are above the law and remove them. Now, is this realistic? No, but when the situation arises where someone is treated unfairly by police, then the officer should be punished fully; only then will the culture begin to change and the assholes are driven out. Stop stereotyping everyone- there are good and bad people of every race, religion, gender, sexuality, ideology, etc.
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