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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ I'm sure that black cops aren't out there thinking "blue first" just to be assholes.
The reality is much simpler. They deal with tough members of society and are doing their jobs. And that's what public wants and needs them to do, whether some members of the public will admit it or not.
The notion that they should give "special treatment" to people of their own race is preposterous nonsense from liberals behind a desktop who've obviously NEVER had to arrest a violent 19 year old who could be kicking, threatening, or cursing him out. I am wagering that if any of you textbook policy wonk types spent 1 month as a cop working in a gang-infested neighborhood you'd quickly come around to the fact that yeah--this job is dangerous and skin color really is not what's important. Maybe that explains why white and black cops on the same force seem to get along perfectly fine with each other for the most part.
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Your right, I've never been a cop.
I have been a parole officer. I have worked with inner-city youth. I grew up in a very hard-scrabble town in rural Oregon which, if you don't think is relevant, you don't have any right lecturing me on knowing culture because some of the kids I grew up with went to prison for murder, armed robbery, and drug crimes just like inner city kids. Some who weren't arrested, still did things like beat an old man almost to death for no reason, and beat up a tourist so badly that the tourist was "kicked until his ribs stopped breaking." More than once, my high school football games turned into riots that required police response.
These weren't people I "heard about," these were my friends and people I socialized with daily. While I'm pretty quiet and mild-mannered myself, I grew up with these people and avoided trouble myself by knowing how to keep my mouth shut, make a persuasive argument to angry, violent peers, and read the crowd. I think these are skills inner city kids learn to survive, too, and that cops use on a daily basis.
Is all that a replacement for being a cop? No. But it's certainly a far cry from some kid who grew up in an upper-middle-class gated community going to private school whose only view of the streets was through the windows of a Range Rover and now writes your mythical policy papers.
FINALLY,
I'm not advocating that different cops treat different races differently. I'm advocating that ALL cops treat all people they interact with equally fairly and respectfully. The fact that you started talking about angry, violent kids when I mentioned police shootings of innocent, unarmed children is your own racist bullshit, not mine.