(August 13, 2015 at 6:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(August 13, 2015 at 3:19 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is hard to say what is going on inside someone's head, though one can make a pretty good guess based on the person's actions. And obviously, different cops have different things going on in their heads, as is evidenced from the fact that they do not all behave identically.
In this sort of case, though, I suspect that very often the cops do not think of black people as being fully people. More like animals, or evil demons, or something subhuman. If they did not think such types of things, they would treat black people like people.
The one thing that needs to be explained then is why black cops are just as vicious towards minorities as white cops? It is the police mentality that needs to be examined. The simplistic solution of just hiring more minority cops is not the answer. We need BETTER cops not just darker cops.
People can be bigoted against their own group. Blacks can be bigoted against blacks, women can be bigoted against women, etc. Some years ago, I remember it was common for people to not want to work for a woman. Even among women. For my part, I realized that that was pure idiocy. I liked working for women, because if I just did my job and not give them any extra shit because they are a woman, they always loved me as a worker.
You are certainly correct about what we need. We need better cops, not simply darker ones.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
