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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]more deflection from ANY sort of responsibility. PPs (including me) have said MULTIPLE times that the police have work to do to improve. yet you can't acknowledge that maybe not everything is the police's fault.[/quote]

From what it looks like the most egregious attempts deflection come about whenever a point is made about police responsibility and police accountability.  That subject is not open for discussion at all - it gets mentioned and immediately stats are throw out about black-on-black crime and immediate shifts of emphasis occur to avoid delving into that aspect of the problems between blue and black.  People will gladly go on for 4/5 pages in these threads about blacks and their criminality and culpability [b]but apparently no one is willing to engage in such in-depth discussion about police misconduct.[/b][/quote]

Yes, people have addressed police misconduct.  In fact, if you search, the need for anti-bias training is out there.  People have discussed human relations training, de-escalation, you name it.  But no one mentions the costs involved in that either, eh?  b/c it will be a big chunk of change

And then you can't expect miracles - b/c change takes time, generations, in fact.

But no one discusses the need for communities themselves to work together - to acknowledge their own issues, to work with the schools, to create wrap around services with social programs, to implement restorative practices in the schools so that "enemy faces enemy."  We're all quick to blame the police, but slow to acknowledge that unless we focus on the mental and emotional health of people feeling oppressed we will get nowhere.

Whites can't come in and take on the Michelle Pfeiffer role.  There is no white savior.  People need to take back their own communities.

But why isn't that ever mentioned?  Do you take back communities by destroying them?  by setting fire to local businesses?  by trampling on innocent people?  by shouting out obscenities?

No, you focus on constructive measures.  That isn't to say whites don't play a role.  Whites need to recognize their own biases, too. But please keep in mind that it's not only race; it's also SES.  Anyone with enough money to keep their families away from certain situations - white, black, Asian, Hispanic - are also to blame.  Money talks.[/quote]

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