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Originally Posted by Oberon
Stepping outside of the whole racial issue for a moment, there does certainly seem to be a tread of police reaching for their firearms and using them in a situation that does not call for it.
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First, i'd like to point out that the young man was not shot, though i understand you are probably not implying that
Second, is there really a trend indicating the rise of police shootings?
When i wanted to buy a Jeep Wrangler, i never used to see them on the road. The day after i bought one, i was waving left and right at dozens of other Jeep Wrangler drivers on every outing i went on.
I would venture to guess that while the percentage of police shootings has
probably remained
roughly the same the last say - 10 years - the media has learned that front paging the crap out of police shootings they can turn it into the next national moment. Greater exposure creates the idea that such things are happening with greater frequency.
Imagine if the US Media reported
every single small plane crash and made a media day of each. If that were the case they would have a new crash of any given severity to report every few days. Suddenly, the
perception is that small planes are falling from the sky left and right... what is not conveyed in such a style of reporting is the hundreds of thousands of flight hours which took place during that crash prone 8 or 9 hours.
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Originally Posted by Oberon
the attitude of the police seems to be regarding the public as less of an entity to be protected and more an entity to be combatted.
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and i cant imagine why
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Originally Posted by Oberon
Clearly there are those who will always be convinced that there is a problem, who have built their careers on there being a problem, and there are those who are vehemently opposed to there being a problem even if there is one that they are willing to label their opposition in all forms of fanciful names.
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How would you like a middle of the road perspective?
you are dealing with 5 segments of race in America, not 2. everybody thinks there are 2 sides to the story... well there are 5 where blacks and whites are concerned in America
1. whites
2. under achieving whites
3. blacks
4. under achieving blacks
5. other
1. Whites raise their kids to respect folks, even if they are different, they punish their kids for spitting our racial slurs, they work hard, live in a nice house, drive a nice car, successfully pursue higher education, they work along side of blacks every day. and nobody really has a problem.
2. under achieving whites sit around and collect welfare checks, what little money they do bring home from whatever job they work this month they blow on bud lite, tattoos, pickup truck accessories and lord knows what else. They consider blacks lazy and the root of the problem.
3. Blacks raise their kids to respect folks, even if they are different, they punish their kids for spitting out racial slurs, they work hard, live in a nice house, drive a nice car, successfully pursue higher education, they work hard along side of whites every day. and nobody really has a problem.
4. under achieving blacks sit around and collect welfare checks, what little money they do bring home from whatever job they work this month they blow on colt 45 malt liquor, tattoos, spinning rims and lord knows what else. they consider whites to be in control of the world and the root of the problem.
5. other... the Jesse Jackson's and the - i dunno - Bill O'riellys. the profiteer off the entire situation and nothing gets accomplished and it seems like the worse things are, the more attention these guys get and the worse everything seems to get.