Unions are typically the same party as progressive Democrat mayors.
They have enough power to require their employees to obey the law.
I am. I found it to be the kind of move I’d expect from a progressive, not a conservative.
I already cited two studies back about post #29, and a BJS report in #28; have you reviewed those?
Oh, please. Unions are made up of people.
You’re having to work very hard to explain away either ineptitude or complicity on their part. If the mayor of Minneapolis was a Republican, Ellison would indicted him/her already, and the DNC media would have convicted him/her.
It isn’t an issue now. It has been an issue for decades. Meanwhile, every four years Republicans are accused of being racist.
In the big cities, that blue wall is headed by a progressive Democrat mayor.
The president has done nothing to defend that cop. In fact, he called for a DoJ investigation immediately.
They don’t do it very well anymore, it seems. The percentage of black cops is just slightly higher than the percentage of blacks in the population. Now, one could argue that the percentage of black cops should be much higher than their percentage of the population, sort of like Irish cops once were in major eastern cities. But regardless, the percentage is still higher.
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I suspect most Repubs admit they have racist elements in their psyches. The ones who resolutely resist ever admitting to their own racism is the Dems, notwithstanding their racism is just as common if not more common.
Actually, in the PBS show “Created Equal,” Clarence Thomas very rightly pointed out that he was the target of racist attacks that would never have been tolerated, had he not been a Republican. (Yes, PBS.)
Yes! Don’t you think everybody needs to ask themselves on a regular basis about whether they make assumptions about other people based on accidental attributes such as race or politics? That’s an unjust prejudice. Humans are wired to make pictures of reality from a limited amount of information. Fallen humans are wired to do it in unflattering, uncharitable and unfair ways. It is something we need to understand about ourselves, both personally and when dealing with others. It calls for both vigilance and mercy.
This paper, by a (black) Harvard professor and published in the National Bureau of Economic Research, does not make such a high school mistake. It suggested that police were more violent toward minorities, but were no more likely to shoot blacks than whites. According to the author (Roland G. Fryer) “It is the most surprising result of my career."
Agreed. But more than anything we need to pay close attention to our actions, much more than our thoughts. Do we pay somebody less when we know that person is a minority (e.g. Hispanic, recent immigrant)? Do we open a door for a black woman as readily as we would a white woman? (yes, I know, could get in trouble for it, but I do it anyway) Do we speak more slowly to a black clerk, unconsciously assuming he/she’s “slower” in understanding?
So clearly the mayor does have control or say in what the police force does or rather can do.
This is true, but look at what @josie_L wrote: that it is in proportion to the criminals of the various races whom police in a given place encounter.
This was quoted from an article about a study on this topic.
Then the better response would be to provide data that says otherwise rather than use a logic fallacy like an appeal to common knowledge. Sure, correlation does not equal causation, but it also does not prohibit it by any means, and beats assumptions with no data.
Proof, please.
This is such a flimsy defense of the progressive Democrat mayors who, over decades in many major cities, have either been tolerant of or complicit in bigotry.
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We know that it was a product of a class society that tends to leave black communities as some of the most impoverished and brutalised, and in this sense it was racist. Black-on-black violence, high rates of crime from black people, black poverty, police brutality towards black people - all of this is connected and points to the racism inherent in the way our society is organised.