#police system

[carabeann]

“Policemen swear to god; Love’s seeping from the guns”

-MGMT

[padanatural]

remember when Hasan Minhaj did a whole episode on the systematic problems of the american police almost a year ago?

[renoyes]

My mom asked me why are the protesters still marching, “the bad cop’s in jail, they’ve made their point.”

This was my response...

According to census the US is 12.6% black, 16.3% Hispanic (estimated), 72.4% white (including Hispanic, so 56.1% non Hispanic white).

That makes over 41,900,000 black people and over 186,500,000 white non Hispanic people.

Police kill, on average, 2.8 men per day. Police were responsible for about 8% of all homicides with adult male victims between 2012 and 2018. Black men’s mortality risk is between 1.9 and 2.4 deaths per 100 000 per year, and White risk is between 0.6 and 0.7.

So back to census data there are about 4.5 times as many whites are blacks in this country but blacks are over 3 times as likely to be killed by cops.

Ignoring that cops shouldn’t be killing in those numbers in the first place, but black men are 3 times as likely to be killed?!? Not arrested, not stopped, not convicted. Just killed!

In 2014, Blacks made up 2.3 million, or 34%, of the total 6.8 million correctional population. Yet only 12.6% of the entire population.

Blacks and whites use drugs at similar rates, but the imprisonment rate of Blacks for drug charges is almost 6 times that of whites.

Now why are these numbers important BESIDES DEATH?

According to the NAACP,

Infectious diseases are highly concentrated in corrections facilities: 15% of jail inmates (serving 1 year or less) and 22% of prisoners (over a year sentence), compared to 5% of the general population, reported ever having tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and C, HIV/AIDS, or other STDs.

Also a criminal record can reduce the likelihood of a callback or job offer by nearly 50 percent.

They are protesting because how the police treat them affects every single part of their lives. From jobs, to health, to living.

When the economy crashes it effects them disproportionately too.

Black people were affected 6 times as badly financially by the coronavirus.

And these were the people who could get the jobs in the first place.

Once getting a job whites make an average 1.6 times that of blacks.

Blacks are 12.6% of the population but 60% of corona deaths.

Black workers make up 11.9 percent of all employees but 17 percent of front-line workers

Less than 1/2 of black adults have a job.

Black workers lose work early during a crisis and their employment rate continues to lower even as the economy for white workers begins to get better.

Being out of work makes skills become outdated, making it even harder for them to get back into decently paying jobs.

Black workers consistently earn less than white workers. (This is partly because they are more heavily concentrated in jobs in low-paying jobs.)

But blacks earn less at every education level, and black workers continue to be underrepresented in the highest-paying occupations.

The typical black household has one-tenth the wealth of a typical white household, according to Federal Reserve data.

Since 1983 blacks went from a net worth of 3 months income to now 6 months income

But whites went from 2 YEARS worth income to 3 YEARS worth income.

It isn’t about 1 man’s death. It isn’t about over 1000 men’s deaths a year from police. It’s about a system that disparately affects them. Why would they stop marching? It’s not like they have a job to go back to thanks to this system.

The protesters haven’t made their point because people think they are marching because it took 4 days to arrest the officer who killed 1 unarmed guy and 9 days (the number of days they have been marching by the way) to arrest the other 3. They are marching because this is a symptom of a much much bigger problem. And it starts with how the system interacts with them on a daily basis, the police.

Here is another example. There was recently an officer who was caught on camera pushing a black teen who was already on her knees during a peaceful protest in Fort Lauderdale. He has had 71 complaints of excessive force against him in 4 years, 51 of those he pulled out his gun. 4 years is the length of time since the black lives matter movement started.

Community relations doesn’t do anything when the police protect their own to the point men like this still have a job.

Watch this and ask why they are protesting. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protester-knelt-down-to-tell-police-he-loves-and-respects-them-they-threw-him-in-jail-charleston-south-carolina/

Why should people stop protesting? Why should they let the police go back to their normal routine when this is what the police think their normal routine should look like.

When one cop is bad, but three more just watch and do nothing, you have 4 bad cops. The problem is, there are bad cops out there, but the rest of them are just sitting around watching and doing nothing.

[indizombie]

Are y’all tired? Because I’m tired. They think this is a negotiation, but I came here to demand change. My grandson ain’t gonna march for the same things that my granddaddy marched for.

Frank Nitty, activist, about persistence in the fight for justice

[indizombie]

Vikas Dubey, dead or alive, is a symptom of malignancy in the polity - of criminalisation of politics and democracy being subjugated to the power of money and muscle. The killing of a father son duo in Tamil Nadu in police custody might seem far removed from the death in police custody of a notorious criminal whose men had gunned down eight policemen. But they are interlinked by a common failure of politics and of the police system. Dubey, the symptom, has died, but the disease thrives.

‘Vikas Dubey: Argument for Radical Reform’, Economic Times

[nawanagartime]

માહિતી અધિકારીની અપીલમાં બેદરકાર પોલીસતંત્રને લપડાક જામનગર : જાણીતા આર.ટી.આઇ. એકટીવિસ્ટ એડ. ગૌતમ ગોહિલએ જામનગરની ટ્રાફીક બ્રાંચમાં કેટલીક મહત્વની માહિતી માંગતી અરજી ગઇ તા.

[kazzabear]

At any point during the first decade of the 21st century, 1/3 of African American men in their 20s were in jail, prison, on probation, or on parole.

And you’re telling me they don’t have a right to be mad? That there is no racism in the 21st century? Okay.

[baerback]

I have the privilege to say I'm tired of seeing these riots then completely shutting it out, but I also have the privilege to stand up for what's right and to exploit the corruptness within the justice and police system. Not all cops are corrupt, and I understand that good cops risk a lot when they report a corrupt cop, but every cop becomes corrupt and evil when they ignore the rights of the citizens they swore to protect. It's exhausting seeing a new person, black or white, Muslim or Christian, gay or transgendered getting killed once again by a police man when there were many outlets they could have taken to avoid the irreversible action; death. I hope that our country starts changing for the better, but that won't happen until the justice system and police system are changed and improved.