"The republicans will draft your kids, poison the air and water, take away your social security and burn down black churches if elected." Gawain of Orkney
Yeah, on that note, very fitting for this thread, even if you may struggle with the language:
"Topic is tired and needs a nap." - Tosa Inu
19th century America, that changes the debate completily! Suddenly todays problems just dissapeares *poof*
Might seem clever to you but I think it's dumb. It's the same as assuming that Germany never changed and are all closet nazi's. Today is now. Problems are now. By all means take the vaccination called political correctness and relativation if reality disturbs you too much
Awesome movie by the way
Last edited by Fragony; 06-28-2017 at 11:47.
I do not believe that America's black community's issues will be solved by an overhaul of America's police service. I do not even believe it will improve their situation by a significant amount. If anything it is an excuse to deflect blame and refuse badly needed self reflection and internal community reform.
I do however think that an overhaul is sorely needed by society at large. The American political scene is frequently dancing back and forth over the boiling point and maintaining the ability of the police to counter and contain civil unrest is vital. As it is the chronic inexperience and ill discipline of parts the American police force is itself a frequent instigator of the very civil unrest it is tasked to prevent.
Last edited by Greyblades; 06-28-2017 at 15:00.
The questions are more like why did these white people have gang culture?
Why do whites from the Balkans/Russia/Eastern Europe not count as having a gang culture (when they are in gangs or all of them?)?
Why do the blacks (partially or all?) in the US have a gang culture now?
Why is this rarely said about blacks in some other countries?
And why are these questions linked to political correctness?
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"Topic is tired and needs a nap." - Tosa Inu
I look at artforms and expressions.
Total faillure comes in many ways. I am a really good dancer by the way I almost win every contest every time
This unfortunately is the difficult part to do. How does one get the economically left behind to buy into society, especially one that doesn't seem to want them? Unless people from the bottom of society try and join the police force too it will remain an organization of the oppressive other, the Police too will see distrust from a community that doesn't seem them as a force of good and often overreact. Police unfortunately only see the problems and are not trained to be social workers too.
We need to overhaul education so that poor communities don't have poor schools. The schools need to guide kids toward some sort of employment instead of just general education. Civics needs to be taught a bit more often so that people understand that their are legitimate ways to address problems and so that they understand what a good citizen should contribute to society.
Under/un-educated young men of any ethnicity will tend to form gangs and delve into crime when legitimate work for their set of skills and education will never result in the type of status, wealth, and 'respect' that strive for.
Who wants to be the chump working the dead end job for minimum wage when being a gangster will result in much easier gains plus a sense of actual belonging.
I'd say another thing to overhaul would be the prison system. It shouldn't be a finishing school that accepts minor drug users and pumps out unemployable gangsters.
Last edited by spmetla; 06-29-2017 at 04:22.
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
Four stage strategy from Yes, Minister:
Stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.
I am perfectly capable of completily changing my mind, did that many times. Need a good reason to do it
edit, internet is back. If you look in my posting history you will find a different person, basicly an extreme-rightist of the worst kind. That's all gone I don't see things like that anymore life caught up. I have absolutily evolved.
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His spelling is getting marginally worse.
Did you actually go around waving aNazinationalistproud homeland loving flag and throw fecal matter atJewishMuslimchildrenimmigrantsleftist agitators? I can't really imagine it getting much worse.
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Requesting suggestions for new sig.
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Now I only dislike you
Saw this last night on PBS, good report on the change in policing in Camden, Pennsylvania.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/happe...g-build-trust/
Historically one of the country's most impoverished and violent cities, Camden, New Jersey, has been working to rebuild its police force from the ground up, recruiting officers from its mostly Latino and African-American community. The new procedures aim to bring police into closer face-to-face interactions with the people they serve in order to foster good relationships. Hari Sreenivasan reports.
Since transitioning from the old force to the new in 2014, the number of murders dropped by almost 70 percent, burglaries by 27 percent, robberies 33 percent, and even an eye-catching 143 percent spike in rapes that the department attributes to increased reporting, as well as new broader federal guidelines on what constitutes rape.
Overall, the city’s crime numbers are the lowest in decades. Those are impressive statistics for any police department, and residents don’t dispute them. But some say seeing them in a report vs. feeling the difference every day are two different things.
Last edited by spmetla; 07-02-2017 at 00:12.
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
Four stage strategy from Yes, Minister:
Stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.
Makes perfect sense, police from their own community won't be seen as hostile
My wife, years past, was part of a police training academy as staff.
Police are NOT trained to protect themselves first. Their training centers on protecting the general public first, themselves second, and the alleged perpetrator third.
Primary in that training is an absolute priority to NOT get your gun taken away from you.
The police are then trained to respond with the absolute minimum level of force needed to protect the public and make an arrest.
The official training provided officers, PFH, is very much in line with the goals you state. The issues of concern come after that...
Police academies vary, but are typically 13-14 weeks of instruction. This is followed by a period of tutelage OJT under a training officer or several weeks or months.
By contrast the "simplest" job in the military [infantry] requires the same total training time (10 weeks basic, 4 weeks AIT). Thus an army infantry warfighter receives the same level of training provided to a police officer, despite the fact that the job of infantry soldier is conceptually MUCH easier with fewer task types than a police officer and infantry receive much more direct instruction and supervision until they achieve NCO status. @Strike For The South wasn't claiming police to be untrained, but that they are undertrained given the complexity of their task/purpose.
AFTER they exit the academy, they go on the street and learn how to police from other police....and the lessons learned are not always aligned with the standards promulgated in their academy training. The mental shortcuts and "what we really look for" standards may well undercut the official training standards. This is accompanied, of course, by all of the natural efforts by the new officer to fit into their organization (See Jablin on Organizational entry and assimilation by the individual). The official training can easily end up taking a back seat. Thus, police CULTURE is the real source of concern -- and it may well alter, undercut or even obviate all of the official training in some localities.
You could also make a good case that, unless they are assigned as a training officer at the academy, they do not receive enough refresher training in appropriate escalation of violence.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
One thing to note is that infantry are trained in a total environment, whereas police inductees (I believe) get to go home at the end of the day. But that's just to be pedantic.
In the conflict between "Black Lives Matter" and "All Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter", to my surprise it turns out* comparatively few have thought to deploy "Civilian Lives Matter" as a rejoinder.
*At least by the metric of Google Search results
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Last edited by Fragony; 07-07-2017 at 08:50.
Just be carefull and considerate, it's an open wound for Norway that isn't going to heal very soon
I meant to post this in the Charlottesville thread but it is locked.
153 years ago today Robert Edward Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox, the civil war ended, and the Republic was restored.
It would be another 99 for Black Americans to receive their full rights (on paper). It is the nations greatest black mark and it is the fulcrum upon which all domestic policy still turns. From redlining to police violence, there are vestiges of the salve state that continue to work all around us. Vestiges that we should work to end. A great first step is listening, don't interrupt, just listen. A great second step is reflection.
America is disconcerting and uncertain times. Uncertainty can lead to fear. Fear makes people want control. That desire for control manifests itself in pain and hatred. It is difficult to excise fear, but we must try.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
.I was reading various news yesterday and I came across two stories that made my eyes roll back into my skull.
The first was the Chicago PDs use of bait trucks. The idea is to park a truck in the neighborhood, open the back, and watch to see who comes and takes the goods, in this case shoes. This is not a new idea. The use of bait cars, cars with GPS in them has been around for a while. What happened here kind of takes that a step further, like having the car door open and keys in the ignition. Of course that caught some people, whose lives were most certainly now be ruined because of a totally ginned up scenario by the cops.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45142145
The second, more egregious story was about the Cincinnati police tasering an 11 year old girl because the off duty cop thought she was stealing something at the grocery store. Tasering an 11 year old.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/us/ci...rnd/index.html
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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