[ SECRET POST #3154 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3154 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Unpopular Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

That doesn't change the fact that if the law, the thing that is supposed to protect you from that violence, then turns against you and perpetrates that violence itself, then there is nowhere for you to turn. If your state itself turns against you, or supports those who hurt you, then there is no safety. What are you supposed to do if the people who are supposed to protect you are the ones assaulting you, and trying to protect yourself against them makes you the criminal?

To have a representative of the law perpetrate baseless violence fundamentally means something different than to have some random civilian on the street do it, because they are a representative of something much bigger than themselves. To have them be supported in that violence by the institution that they represent means something more terrifying again.

Crime and violence are huge problems. If there is no street-level difference between crime and the law, though, that's a whole bigger problem again.

Re: Unpopular Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Cop on civilian violence isn't a blacks only thing, it's just no one covers stories unless the victims just happen to be black. Black on white murder is higher than white on black, too. There does need to be something done about overzealous cops, but to completely ignore the other issues within the black community isn't going to help them. Those things aren't going to go away by ignoring them.

Re: Unpopular Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

And is there a reason not to focus on dealing with the cops first? One problem at a time is how many things get solved, while keeping the rest in mind for later. Widespread crime, socio-economic and cultural problems such as you describe aren't exactly the quickest things to shift, and if crime is the main problem then it actually makes sense to clean up the cops first, to ensure that cleaning the rest up is an exercise in actual law rather than an unequal state-backed exercise in gang warfare.

Telling people not to focus on the problem at hand (and given recent events this problem is at hand, for better or worse) because there are bigger ones around it actually does very little to help. Sort one problem out first, make sure the very process of solving problems from here out has a chance of being fair, and then you can start thinking about the many other ones.