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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For every egregious police act, can we also post every single good police act that occurred at that very same moment in time across our fifty states? Just for proportionality? I'm guessing if this is criminal--it's on video, will be investigated, and justice will be done. Will all the good police who were doing good work at the same time get commendations? Doubtful.[/quote]

But police are supposed to do good things and act appropriately. It shouldn't be newsworthy. [/quote]

Or maybe it should. [b]Because the preponderance of police violence stories is not proportional to the scale of these actual events[/b]. If we published every good police act that occurred at the exact same moment, it might be a good thing to demonstrate the ratio. This act will be addressed if it was illegal, but all the legal behavior should be recognized as well.[/quote]

PP, I understand what you are saying, there's definitely news bias for sensational events, however, there is also racial bias in policing.

Philando Castile was stopped 46 times by police for minor and often made up traffic violations like a busted tail light:
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/07/20/486512846/46-stops-on-the-driving-life-and-death-of-philando-castile?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr

That is not good policing--that is harassment and profiling.  Stop and frisk laws--proportionally whom do you think was stopped and frisked?

I am grateful that we have police.  They do put their lives at risk to protect the public.  I am horrified by the deliberate targeting of law enforcement by criminals.  However, there is an ever widening gap of racial injustice when it comes to policing.  Being black shouldn't be a reason to be shot and killed.[/quote]

They dont do stop and frisk anymore. Policies do change. Unfortunately, crime is higher now in places where they stopped. I'm guessing you are ok with that trade off. Everything is a trade off .  [/quote]

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