(June 21, 2020 at 11:30 pm)Lek Wrote: Cops can do more harm than good, but I don't believe that police brutality is pervasive. The number of police vs incidents of brutality don't bear that out. Sure we need to work to end police brutality. Let's go for it, but we must not destroy an essential institution In the process.
It depends on what colour you are as to whether police brutality is pervasive.
Some black people in the US have stopped calling the police because it mostly does more harm than good.
Like this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-53052917
Quote:James Smith has never wanted much to do with the police but he called them to check on his neighbour in the Texas city of Fort Worth, because it was late at night and her front door was wide open. Soon afterwards he heard a gunshot, and later saw the dead body of a 28-year-old woman, his neighbour's daughter, carried out on a stretcher.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
