Re: Violent scum caught on camera
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:31 pm
[quote]You must know that the police target non-whites disproportionately - every survey since year dot says so.[/quote]
I agree to an extent, but maybe it's a chicken & egg situation.
Do the Police target non-whites more because non-whites commit more crime (proportionately), or are more non-white crimes on record because of the targeting specificity of non-whites?
A bearded Muslim guy is going to be a bigger suspect of carrying a bomb than a white guy because of previous experience. A copper looking for suspects of a racist attack on a Sikh will question the white skin-headed guy with tattoos before the Asian youth in the same area.
We all prejudge people from previous experience because that's what keeps us alive. (rightly or wrongly)
[quote]Put it this way - I've been threatened once by the police, never assaulted. I'm white.[/quote]
Maybe you seemed sensible and passive, so there was no need for aggression.
[quote]My son's been assaulted 3 times.[/quote]
To be fair, you've only your sons word. I know for a fact when I was a lad I wouldn't have admitted to being cheeky or aggressive to the Police and admitted as such to my dad. He probably would have told the coppers to give me a clip just to teach me a lesson. (again, rightly or wrongly)
[quote]A black friend of mine had his cousin murdered by the police (no charges of course).[/quote]
I'm sorry to hear that. There can't have been much evidence. Lack of evidence suggests no crime -though that's not definite of course- and there are enough people who could make lots of money out of such a case for no one to be interested in prosecuting, given the chance.
1960's Los Angeles the UK is not........thankfully.
I agree to an extent, but maybe it's a chicken & egg situation.
Do the Police target non-whites more because non-whites commit more crime (proportionately), or are more non-white crimes on record because of the targeting specificity of non-whites?
A bearded Muslim guy is going to be a bigger suspect of carrying a bomb than a white guy because of previous experience. A copper looking for suspects of a racist attack on a Sikh will question the white skin-headed guy with tattoos before the Asian youth in the same area.
We all prejudge people from previous experience because that's what keeps us alive. (rightly or wrongly)
[quote]Put it this way - I've been threatened once by the police, never assaulted. I'm white.[/quote]
Maybe you seemed sensible and passive, so there was no need for aggression.
[quote]My son's been assaulted 3 times.[/quote]
To be fair, you've only your sons word. I know for a fact when I was a lad I wouldn't have admitted to being cheeky or aggressive to the Police and admitted as such to my dad. He probably would have told the coppers to give me a clip just to teach me a lesson. (again, rightly or wrongly)
[quote]A black friend of mine had his cousin murdered by the police (no charges of course).[/quote]
I'm sorry to hear that. There can't have been much evidence. Lack of evidence suggests no crime -though that's not definite of course- and there are enough people who could make lots of money out of such a case for no one to be interested in prosecuting, given the chance.
1960's Los Angeles the UK is not........thankfully.