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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All lives will matter, the day that black lives matter. That was great. Wish she would have mentioned Tamir Rice, 12 years old, murdered by police. They wouldn't even let his mother hold him as he lay dying. That would have NEVER happened were he not black. Dear police officers, Please stop killing black  people. Thx[/quote]
What exactly do you want your own local cops to do? Just curious. Please be specific. [/quote]

NP.

Improve training on use of lethal force
End "Broken Windows" policing
Wear body cameras
End "Policing for profit" (i.e. raising revenue by hounding local residents)
Allow police to be interviewed by investigators the day of questionable incidents and not wait 5,10 or even 30 days like some states allow
Install civilian review boards[/quote]

Broken windows policing was great. There's a huge body of research that when you address mischief/nuisance crime you preempt larger crimes that could end in bloody confrontation. Do AAs really want to live in neighborhoods with broken windows, graffitti, vandlism, purse snatchings? Broken windows is not the same as policing for profit, which I agree should be looked at.[/quote]

Broken windows policing put black kids in jail and gave them a record (now no longer to vote or get a job) for simple and stupid teenage crimes. Statistics show that white kids doing the same crimes got let off with a warning. White kids are able to get on with their lives. Black kids' lives are changed forever. The white kids who did get caught up in the system were immediately pulled out thanks to their family's wealth (ability to pay top lawyers, etc).

I know several black kids who didn't commit crimes but were "near the scene of the crime" and were jailed none the less. In the black community it is well known (thus the distrust of police). My husband and I always talk about how lucky we are to have avoided it (it could have easily been us though we are law-abiding citizens just like many of our friends are).

Are people not aware of these things or do they just not care?

This baffles me. For those of you who believe more black people should be put in jail, why do you think that? You can't ignore the facts that black people are targeted and on a preschool to prison pipeline.[/quote]

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