SamSpade
Well-Known Member
I don't know what's going to change matters.
What gets me is - as dangerous as gangs and cartels are - overall in the United States, violent crime has been dropping across the board year to year for decades. It is about HALF of what it was thirty years ago. When a Republican has run for office - any office - declaring they will usher in law and order, the left hears there's gonna be police brutality against people of color. So the left has repeatedly gone on record trying to make the case that - there's really no crime problem.
But - every time a POC is killed by a cop, we are told the nation is "systemically racist". When Chauvin was found guilty - THAT SHOULD PROVE IT ISN'T. Having a bad cop doesn't say cops are racist and the system is unjust - convicting a bad cop says, IT IS just. You absolutely 100% cannot expect that as high a bar as you want for cops - ten million interactions with cops a year that resolve peacefully - you cannot expect every one of them to never have a bad outcome. But you CAN hold them accountable afterward. A guilty verdict says, sorry - but it IS just.
POC MUST learn that figthing cops, resisting arrest and so forth will never end well.
The data JUST CAN'T be found to in any way suggest there's a war on black people by the cops. We have an idiotic idea in this nation of "equity" - it's not enough to guarantee everyone has an equal chance at something - "equity" says there must be equal OUTCOME. Hence there's a determined effort to portray the higher incidence of things like blacks arrested, incarcerated, victims of COVID - that these are all a consequence of racism.
Expecting equal outcome in everything is like having a marathon and demanding the top ten runners are diverse. It doesn't work that way.
What gets me is - as dangerous as gangs and cartels are - overall in the United States, violent crime has been dropping across the board year to year for decades. It is about HALF of what it was thirty years ago. When a Republican has run for office - any office - declaring they will usher in law and order, the left hears there's gonna be police brutality against people of color. So the left has repeatedly gone on record trying to make the case that - there's really no crime problem.
But - every time a POC is killed by a cop, we are told the nation is "systemically racist". When Chauvin was found guilty - THAT SHOULD PROVE IT ISN'T. Having a bad cop doesn't say cops are racist and the system is unjust - convicting a bad cop says, IT IS just. You absolutely 100% cannot expect that as high a bar as you want for cops - ten million interactions with cops a year that resolve peacefully - you cannot expect every one of them to never have a bad outcome. But you CAN hold them accountable afterward. A guilty verdict says, sorry - but it IS just.
POC MUST learn that figthing cops, resisting arrest and so forth will never end well.
The data JUST CAN'T be found to in any way suggest there's a war on black people by the cops. We have an idiotic idea in this nation of "equity" - it's not enough to guarantee everyone has an equal chance at something - "equity" says there must be equal OUTCOME. Hence there's a determined effort to portray the higher incidence of things like blacks arrested, incarcerated, victims of COVID - that these are all a consequence of racism.
Expecting equal outcome in everything is like having a marathon and demanding the top ten runners are diverse. It doesn't work that way.