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Link: https://www.city-journal.org/reflections-on-race-riots-and-police
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NYT/WaPo should hire him to their editorial staff, cable news outlets should be interviewing him, but that wouldn't jive with their business model: Create fear/division, stoke fear/division.
being called in. While trying to bang that 'protruding nail' back in, the media's attention gets distracted from the kinds of things that Hughes notices. I really don't think there's malicious intent involved. Also, I agree with you on the cable news channels bringing Mr. Hughes on...if CNN was able to give air time to the purveyor of "Alternate Facts", then it's no big 'Whoop' to add him.
But again, thanks for doing a little 'lifting'.
Journalism in the classical sense is dead. And probably never coming back.
Conor's article cites the 40% of deaths, 13% of population misleading statistic. That's, at a minimum, laziness. Coleman's article cites 4 studies. Are we to believe that the NYT doesn't have the resources that Coleman has to do actual research to support their case? Again, lazy at a minimum, probably worse.
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So if there is white privilege of which I’m sure. Are there some other privileges that are deserved or not? Can you accept the balance? Politicians and the media seek to divide us. Do you agree? Or are you content knowing that your position on most issues is correct?
These are the posts on this board that drive me crazy. Accept that you are wrong sometimes. I have, can you?
They have never been pulled over for not using a turn signal within 300 feet of a lane change.
They have not had 4 cops and a K9 rummage through their car for 30 minutes as they are detained on the highway.
They have not had a SWAT team bust open the front door, and search the house, only to say: "Sorry, we must have the wrong address."
They have not had to wait in line to vote for 7 hours in the cold rain.
All they know is: "Too bad he failed to comply with the officer's commands."
and not knowing what’s in that car. Or having to make the split second decision of whether a non compliant perp is raising his arm in their direction with a weapon or cell phone. The longest minutes are when a cop is on his own with back up still coming. We expect them to deal with some of the worst examples of society perfectly every time. We then expect them to write perfect reports without any discrepancies so when the fancy pants criminal lawyer cross examines them he can’t accuse them of lying.
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Effective policing starts w/ effective communication and proper risk assessment.
I will not judge the actions re the Brooklyn Center death having not seen the evidence.
wants to walk a mile in the other’s shoes. They have zero idea what that walk is like. For example some have no clue that there really is something called driving while black. Just like others don’t realize that giving a cop who is already keyed up over a tense situation a raft of shit isn’t a good idea.
Training and leadership matter, but hiring is a big factor.
The lion's share of the problems flow from cops who unravel when someone fails to submit to their authority and commands, where the insecure cop is obsessed with "follow/comply with my instructions or else ..." regardless of the situation or risk threat.
[Not talking about justified felony car stops]
Good cops adapt and read the terrain during encounters. Just because a motorist stopped for speeding or an expired tag asks too many questions (Why are you stopping me? ... You had no right to stop me ... I don't feel comfortable ... why do I have to give you my name and address?), it does not follow that the use of force should be triggered or escalated.
Tone, empathy, respect, are important tools.
Not an easy job being a cop. Not lost on me.
perspective. I call them defusers and they are worth their weight in gold.
Likewise a good citizen recognizes that they should comply with the police and not make their life harder.
The problem is that on both sides that recognition is often lacking as is anything approaching an appropriate attitude. There is also the fact that many the cops encounter are fecking criminals with a motive to cop a tude, flee, or worse.
Or does your constant postings make you more woke? What are you during that makes a difference? Stir the pot if that makes you feel better.
In the same manner many lack perspective re military service or working in an emergency room or being a farmer, my point is that many lack the perspective as to the dynamics involved in a traffic stop, and how those dynamics are often different depending upon the cop's pre-judgment of the motorist.
I certainly do not lack perspective on that front.
Looked like his life ended the way he chose to live it.
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you keep linking to sites which require subscriptions.
If we wanted to read that tripe we would subscribe.
You don't seem very bright in this situation.
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the nyt is a rag for liberal elites.
and NYTimes is for everyone.
PS: what is this elite you're talking about?
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From the NYTimes
By Charles Blow.
One of the first times I wrote about the police killing of an unarmed Black man was when Michael Brown was gunned down in the summer of 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. Brown was a Black teenager accused of an infraction in a convenience store just before his life was taken. Last summer, six years on, I wrote about George Floyd, a large Black man accused of an infraction in a convenience store, this time in Minneapolis.
Both men were killed in the street in broad daylight. Brown was shot. An officer knelt on Floyd’s neck. In both cases there were multiple community witnesses to the killings. In both cases there was a massive outcry. In both cases the men were accused of contributing to, or causing, their own deaths, in part because they had illegal drugs in their systems.
Between those two killings there has been a depressing number of others. In January of 2015, The Washington Post began maintaining a database of all known fatal shootings by the police in America. Every year, the police shot and killed roughly 1,000 people. But, as The Post points out, Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than white Americans, and the data revealed that unarmed Black people account for about 40 percent of the unarmed Americans killed by the police, despite making up only about 13 percent of the American population.
Something is horrifyingly wrong. And yet, the killings keep happening. Brown and Floyd are not even the bookends. There were many before them, and there will be many after.
These killings often happen during the day and in public, not under the cover of night, tucked away in some back wood. And they are often caught on video. Tamir Rice was killed during the day. There was video. Walter Scott was killed during the day. There was video. Eric Garner was killed during the day. There was video.
Refer someone to The Times.
They’ll enjoy our special rate of $1 a week.
Now there is another: Daunte Wright, shot and killed during the day in Brooklyn Center, Minn., not far from where Floyd was killed. There is video.
Very little has changed. The aftermath of these killings has become a pattern, a ritual, that produces its own normalizing and desensitizing effects. We can now anticipate the explosions of rage as well and the relative intransigence of the political system in response.
That is not to say that absolutely nothing has changed, but rather that the changes amount to tinkering, when in fact our whole system of policing must be re-evaluated and fundamentally altered.
That examination, oddly enough, starts with gun control. The police justify their militarization and armed-and-ready positioning, by correctly observing that they can be outgunned by a public with such easy access to guns, including military-style guns.
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But once they are armed and anxious, they can be that way in all cases: against an armed suspect as well as one who is unarmed. To all interactions, they can bring personal biases, some of which they don’t even know they possess. And, in the blink of an eye, something tragic can be done, something that can’t be undone.
In addition, municipalities can deploy officers as a malicious arm of urban planning as well as a profit-generating enterprise. Police officers in gentrifying neighborhoods can make new arrivals feel safe by controlling and correcting existing residents. They can also be used to generate funds from fines to keep budgets in balance. All of this increases tense contacts between officers and citizens, so that even though only a tiny fraction lead to deaths, that fraction can still feel overwhelming.
It is all so perverse. And too often it is Black people, particularly Black men, who bear the brunt when all this pressure culminates in a killing.
So, it becomes hard to write about this in a newspaper because it is no longer new. The news of these killings is not that they are interruptions of the norm, but a manifestation of the norm.
There is no new angle. There is no new hot take. There is very little new to be revealed. These killings are not continuing to happen due to a lack of exposure, but in spite of it. Our systems of law enforcement, criminal justice and communal consciousness have adjusted themselves to a banal barbarism.
This has produced in me and many others an inextinguishable rage, a calcification of contempt. As for me, I no longer even attempt to manage or direct my rage. I simply sit with it, face it like an adversary staring across a campfire, waiting to see how I am moved to act, but not proscribing that action and definitely not allowing society’s idea of decorum to proscribe it.
A society that treats this much Black death at the hands of the state as collateral damage in a just war on crime has no decorum to project. That society is savage.
I am also no longer interested in talking about Black pain and Black trauma. (I am becoming ever more convinced that there is a prurient interest in gawking at Black suffering rather than a genuine desire to remedy it.) I now focus on my rage.
I’m sure that pain and trauma are present in me, but I’m choosing to subjugate their import. Rage has ascended to my position of primacy. America scoffed and was unmoved when, for years, we spoke out of our pain. So be it. Now, rage is the only language I have left.
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Call for police reform but marginalize the crime in black communities? Brilliant.
Charles is a black man and is entitled to his perspective and I’m sure he has solid evidence to back that up. But to assume that it is everyone’s perspective is not true. Can you admit that? Or can your liberal mind grasp the concept?
of yours here who post nonsense day in and day out but your complaint only happens when something is posted that is factual but
contrary to your opinion, news sites you visit and people you follow in the news.
You wanted to limit the amount of posts a poster can post.
And when looking at the length of the circle jerk nonsense posted here daily by your group, you have the audacity to call
someone an instigator.
You're upset when someone posts an intelligent
opinion on a topic. I get that. You feel uncomfortable with fact and truth.
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Link: I guess you're finally right about something
Do you believe I actually give a shit about your posts? Or even mine. Get a life.
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The message is lost not because it isn't available, but because of the fear they might have to face up to the fact
they've been wrong about so much and not only have they been wrong all their mentors and teachers who have
been close to them all their lives have been wrong too.
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