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Are The Police Racist?

Of course you do. That doesn't mean you see the organization as it is. The union cops I knew would have said exactly what you said. I was investigating a brutality complaint and a young officer who had to have seen what happened was swearing he was looking somewhere else through the entire incident. Finally he said, "If I told you what I saw, no one would talk to me, no one would go to coffee with me."

Organizations have no soul. They don't have what people have that makes them kind and generous and honest and decent. I submitted a plan to have clerks work from home. I thought it was a good plan to help young mothers, especially single mothers. The personnel director got very excited about my plan but pointed out the things I missed. We could make them contract employees and we wouldn't have to give them sick leave or vacation time. We wouldn't have to provide them with health insurance. Some of the other "team players" cheered him on. I trashed the plan.

Organizations are basically bad, but necessary. They can destroy good people and good people rarely change the organization.

The Red Cross is an organization. So are elemantary school teachers, wine growers and the Church. You worked in a crappy one apparently and it has tainted you.
 
The Red Cross is an organization. So are elemantary school teachers, wine growers and the Church. You worked in a crappy one apparently and it has tainted you.

Elementary schools are where sweetness and light prevail. Are you under the impression that the elementary school, the teachers' union, and the administration are there to do good and educate the children? Individual teachers can be wonderful and some are. The organizations, not so impressive. The Church? What church would that be? As a police officer, I was familiar with a lot of churches. Some are very sick organizations. In my ex-wife's church the minister was caught having sex with a 14-year old girl and the church decided it was the girl's fault. She was possessed. The 40-something year old preacher was an innocent victim. I've always been impressed with churches. I'm not familiar with the wine growers organization.

An organization can take a good, decent person and turn them into something they wouldn't imagine in a surprisingly short period of time.

I'll stick with my view of the world. People are basically good and organizations aren't. The Constitution exists to protect Americans from the government but the government is only interested in protecting itself from Americans.
 
No it is not.
It is an indication that whites (mostly males) interact on such a level with police more than blacks do.
The relative crime stats don't support that explanation.
 
The relative crime stats don't support that explanation.
In relation to what we are speaking about, those who are killed in their criminal interactions, yes they do.
 
In relation to what we are speaking about, those who are killed in their criminal interactions, yes they do.

This post shows that blacks kill LEOs at more than triple their population level, while being killed by LEOs at only twice their population level.

From the link quoted there, whites make up 52% of those killing LEOs. They are under-represented per capita, as the white population makes up 63%. However, whites killed 44% of the LEOs . Hence, LEOs kill whites (52/44) 20% higher (1.19) than the proportion of their threat, while killing blacks 0.7 (33% lower) than their threat level. Thus, if cops are racist, it is against whites, killing them at a higher rate than their threat level would indicate.
 
This post shows that blacks kill LEOs at more than triple their population level, while being killed by LEOs at only twice their population level.

From the link quoted there, whites make up 52% of those killing LEOs. They are under-represented per capita, as the white population makes up 63%. However, whites killed 44% of the LEOs . Hence, LEOs kill whites (52/44) 20% higher (1.19) than the proportion of their threat, while killing blacks 0.7 (33% lower) than their threat level. Thus, if cops are racist, it is against whites, killing them at a higher rate than their threat level would indicate.
You have no point.
The numbers killed are a function of those who interact with the police, not of the whole number of their race.
 
You have no point.
The numbers killed are a function of those who interact with the police, not of the whole number of their race.
The two are simply related; a certain percentage of each race interact with LEOs each year. This would be a multiplier applied, but it would not change the relative ratio of LEOs killed by blacks per capita to blacks killed by LEOs per capita, which stands at 1.5. Whether it's per capita or per encouter, those terms cancel out.
 
The two are simply related; a certain percentage of each race interact with LEOs each year. This would be a multiplier applied, but it would not change the relative ratio of LEOs killed by blacks per capita to blacks killed by LEOs per capita, which stands at 1.5. Whether it's per capita or per encouter, those terms cancel out.

And still, you have no point.
 
Of course, some are. And, do some people see racism where none exists?
 
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