(September 24, 2016 at 4:19 pm)Thena323 Wrote: Sure. That's a fair statement to make.You are right. but...
But, I also know that some people are automatically perceived as being an threat by many officers, PRIOR to these confrontations taking place.
If this were just a matter of race then black cops would not be shooting black suspects. However it is black officers who shoot blacks suspects are a far greater ratio than white cops. Put all the numbers aside and if you were to go out and ride along with a cop or put on a badge yourself you would see why. It maybe wrong to say black people tend to fight cops more, but it is grounded in truth. If you were punched hit or kicked by a certain segment of the population almost everytime you had to confront them would you treat them any differently?
Truth is i would. Why? I am not a stupid person and I want to make sure I go home to my family every night, and if that means i make a mistake and offend a few people, then f-them. Better them to have hurt feelings then me be shot or worse!
Quote:That has the potential to seriously affect an officer's ability to assess a situation and make judgement calls. Particularly when combined with one or more of the following: General disdain for entire subgroup of people, an authoritarian personality, or an itchy trigger finger.These are completely unfair assessments.
Did you know a psych eval is performed for all potential recruits and each and everytime an officer's integrity is questioned? some departments even have their guys checked out one a year...
So To say a citizen that wants and subsequently allowed to be a police officer (as a matter of policy or lack there of) is allowed to just willie nilly work out his anger and agression on the population at his personal descression, is a plot to a bad cop movie, and does not reflect they nature of the police departments nor the desire/reason people become cops. This may have been a problem in the 1960's but we have grown alot since then.
Again I do know that your words mirror perception of most people looking to be victims of unfair _________ (fill in the blank) My question is, if this is the popular view, then doesn't that add to how police encounters are push on the cilivian side? doesn't this put a chip on the shoulder of everyone who thinks themselves a victim?
I worked in the inner city of Orlando for 10 years, and what this usually means is a white or Hispanic looking male driving slow in black/government housing project dropping off black kids after dark or leaving a government project after dark. Know it or not this = at least 50 if not more times I have been pulled over. by the county or by the city. Some cops are ass holes, I've had gun drawn on me more than once. I had a gun on me more than once. Never once was i shot, or even come close. (except when they thought I was the DC sniper) Why? because of what i shared. i simply know the rules of engagement and if a cop in the least little way cares about his job, he plays by those rules. I have even gotten in 'MF-ing' shouting matches but like here never once crossed the line. Again give the cop the upper hand/SUBMIT right off even if they want to cuff you then allow them to deescalate on their terms, and you will find they are people looking to do a job.
Quote:That's kind of my point. When a cop's already already pre-determined that a person is a dumb, violent animal, almost anything they say or do can be interpreted as an act of aggression.
Like simply being nervous, or asking a question.
So Submit..
The problem here is the black community at large is raised to believe they must be alpha males all the time. The want to dominate and be in control, which is in direct violation of every cops mandate on the street. So rather than yield (like chris rock comically shows as a way to diffuse a tense situation) they confront as is the alpha male's job.. Which again the cop's job is to be one step ahead of the escalation process to which they will shoot you before you shoot them.
The only way to not get shot is to submit/yeild or to ambush the cop essentially be at the point where you are ready to kill him before he feels he needs to shoot you. You are not going to out alpha a cop.