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Protests over Missouri teen's death turn violent[W:647,807]

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Perhaps blacks in Missouri **** up twice as much?

Don't read much do you? Here I'll post it again for you to read... hopefully correctly this time:

The Missouri attorney general's office issues annual reports that show the Ferguson police force is almost twice as likely to conduct searches of African Americans during traffic stops. But searches of whites are more likely to result in the discovery of drugs and other contraband. Statewide numbers follow a similar trend.​

Quick quiz on what you just read...

Of the two races being described here by the Missouri attorney general... which race is most likely to be ****ing up more?
 
It is a very racialized situation down there in Ferguson if you haven't noticed.

Made so by the racialists.

Think about it: a town that is 67% black is run by a buncha racist white boys?
 
Seems your hunches are all wrong:

The police department in Washington, DC, has
the highest percentage of Black officers (69 percent)
of any police department in the country, a figure that
is proportional to the city’s population (66 percent
Black) (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1999).

link...

New York City:


47.8 percent of the city’s officers are white, 28.7 percent Hispanic, 17.9 percent black and 5.4 percent Asian.​


The Missouri attorney general's office issues annual reports that show the Ferguson police force is almost twice as likely to conduct searches of African Americans during traffic stops. But searches of whites are more likely to result in the discovery of drugs and other contraband. Statewide numbers follow a similar trend.

link...

Uh that's just two departments. And just so happened to be for two of the largest and most important in the country, thus having the ability to recruit as well. So if we're going to go this route, let's look at the big picture:

BJS: Local Police

So I don't have specifics, but we know that 75% are white, and the piece says that 10% are hispanic. Leaving 15% for blacks then? We're still talking about a much smaller pool to draw from. And I doubt a lot of people are looking to go to St. Louis...

Fun Fact though... for all the crap we're giving LAPD, did you know the majority of them aren't White? Latinos are currently the largest ethnic group on the police force..
 
How does forced racial quotas show him to be wrong?
Previously:

Sounds like blacks aren't interested....
You can't force someone to take a job they don't want sooo... what the hell are you talking about? you can't fill a quota with people who didn't want the job in the first place.
The two are not comparable.
I asked how forced quotas show him to be wrong? You haven't answered that.

Secondly, how in the world to you think a lack of interest in a local police force compares to federal quotas in hiring? Or did you forget that DC is Fed?
It is like you are saying that the feds got a majority of those interested.
 
Don't read much do you? Here I'll post it again for you to read... hopefully correctly this time:

The Missouri attorney general's office issues annual reports that show the Ferguson police force is almost twice as likely to conduct searches of African Americans during traffic stops. But searches of whites are more likely to result in the discovery of drugs and other contraband. Statewide numbers follow a similar trend.​

Quick quiz...

Of the two races being described here by the Missouri attorney general... which race is most likely to be ****ing up more?

Ever hear of "probable cause"? Look it up!
 
Made so by the racialists.

Think about it: a town that is 67% black is run by a buncha racist white boys?

No one is saying that. No one but you.
 
Uh that's just two departments. And just so happened to be for two of the largest and most important in the country, thus having the ability to recruit as well. So if we're going to go this route, let's look at the big picture:

BJS: Local Police

So I don't have specifics, but we know that 75% are white, and the piece says that 10% are hispanic. Leaving 15% for blacks then? We're still talking about a much smaller pool to draw from. And I doubt a lot of people are looking to go to St. Louis...

Fun Fact though... for all the crap we're giving LAPD, did you know the majority of them aren't White? Latinos are currently the largest ethnic group on the police force..

Not surprising. Just saying it's very odd to have such disparaging percentages in the police force of a department where the population is soooo different. It usually reflects the community much closer.
 
Ever hear of "probable cause"? Look it up!

Guess your are just going to deny that the Missouri Attorney General said what he said. Oh wells. Enjoy life in fantasy land.
 
Don't read much do you? Here I'll post it again for you to read... hopefully correctly this time:

The Missouri attorney general's office issues annual reports that show the Ferguson police force is almost twice as likely to conduct searches of African Americans during traffic stops. But searches of whites are more likely to result in the discovery of drugs and other contraband. Statewide numbers follow a similar trend.​

Quick quiz on what you just read...

Of the two races being described here by the Missouri attorney general... which race is most likely to be ****ing up more?

For what it's worth though, and I'm curious is the Missouri statistics show this as well, nationally White people are *pulled over* just as much as black people are. However, in an effort to be open and frank, it does seem there are more searches on blacks though...
 
That's exactly what you're saying! Don't start crawfishin!

No... No I'm not. I'm saying the police department doesn't reflect the population it is policing much at all. And now it's causing a shooting situation to turn into a racial tensions because of it.
 
Not surprising. Just saying it's very odd to have such disparaging percentages in the police force of a department where the population is soooo different. It usually reflects the community much closer.

Supply and demand. Sometimes you just don't have that option you know?
 
For what it's worth though, and I'm curious is the Missouri statistics show this as well, nationally White people are *pulled over* just as much as black people are. However, in an effort to be open and frank, it does seem there are more searches on blacks though...

it was a pretty bad thing in NYC when Bloomberg had is stop and frisk things going on.
 
Supply and demand. Sometimes you just don't have that option you know?

True but 2/3rds of the population is black and 94% of the police are white? That's not off by a little.
 
No... No I'm not. I'm saying the police department doesn't reflect the population it is policing much at all. And now it's causing a shooting situation to turn into a racial tensions because of it.

A shooting that you're claiming was because of racism.
 
True but 2/3rds of the population is black and 94% of the police are white? That's not off by a little.

Which just shows that the number of searches were within the parameters of their population percentage. :shrug:
 
So the riots weren't really about getting back at the white men... or anyone else for that matter then was it? That's what I hear when I hear that black people were getting hit as well...

I think it was just aggression from a community that regularly gets the short end of the stick when it comes to law enforcement.
 
A shooting that you're claiming was because of racism.

No I'm not saying that. I have no idea why the shooting happened. Once again... I'm saying there was a shooting and the racial makeup of the local population isn't reflected in the police force that is policing that population so that made it easy to become the racialized tinderbox that it is right now down there.
 
I think it was just aggression from a community that regularly gets the short end of the stick when it comes to law enforcement.

Hell, the whole judicial system.
 
Made so by the racialists.

Think about it: a town that is 67% black is run by a buncha racist white boys?


So why aren't they disclosing the race of the cop? Would it make a difference if the cop was black?
 
True but 2/3rds of the population is black and 94% of the police are white? That's not off by a little.

Well, I guess they could fire some of the police officers... that bring down the ratio but it wouldn't exactly make the town safer though would it?

Going back to your OP that started all this, I understand the desire to have people of a similar background involved when going into a situation to relate to it. But I would argue that in the long term, it isn't going to make anything better, and maybe make things worse. The police deal is one of the last real vestiges of... supposed/inferred/implied (can't think of the right word, hope that gets across what I'm saying) racism? Is it better to risk someone's safety and wait for the black guy on duty to go to the area, or let the closest available get to the scene to deal with the situation? At some point, we need to move on from this idea that only the black cop will care about black people and stop assuming that whites don't care.
 
So why aren't they disclosing the race of the cop? Would it make a difference if the cop was black?

Hell yeah it would. Think about it, out of 56 cops, you decide to only hire 3 black dudes. Just so happened that one of those three is a little trigger happy. I'd be questioning their hiring practice in case..
 
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