Why do the ritors ask for Justice?

[Athene]

You are right. but...
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.

I don't think police brutality is only a matter of race. Blacks are certainly more likely to experience a negative outcome as a result of an interaction with an officer presenting with an authoritarian personality, but others can and do find themselves at the receiving end of police misconduct. Anyone with a lick of sense should be seriously disturbed by some these stories. It could happen to them.

Drich
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!

Well, that's why you should stick to selling refrigerated trucks, instead of becoming a police officer. You have no business being one.

Thena wrote:
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.

Drich
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...

I never said all officers display those those traits. Some of them do, though; They're the ones that are part of the problem.

Additionally, all police officers are not required to undergo psychological evaluations. And currently, there's no nationwide standardization in place for administration or content of such evaluations. It literally varies from department to department.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29191...s-the-test

Because states regulate how municipal departments operate, typically by creating state commissions or academies to determine hiring and training standards, there is currently no national standard for how police recruit candidates, how they are psychologically evaluated, or even whether or not such evaluations should be mandatory.

Some states use vague language in their statutes, requiring only that a candidate must "be free of" any mental or emotional condition that may affect the candidates' ability to perform their job functions. In some cases, this determination is made through the background investigation process alone. In other cases, the commission and/or state statute says that a clinical physician will make such a determination as part of a required physical examination.

Drich
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.

I would propose that's precisely the sort of attitude that lies at the heart of the problem, much of the time. Cops who think like you, who are too willing to make sweeping generalizations about an entire race, and generally unwilling to give people the privilege of simple consideration as a individual human being. The wildly prejudicial belief that "All Negroes need to be shown a firm hand" likely drives yours motives and actions whenever you interact with blacks. I get that you're "okay" with that.

But, having power over the life and death of others, isn't in your hands 12 to 16 hours a day, is it?