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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Overall, the data for most major cities in the US shows a clear trend of of violent crime that is disproportionately high in low-income AA neighborhoods as compared to neighborhoods with other demographics - and it's highest among young AA males.  As such, is it any surprise that police would be far more suspicious of and far more likely to target anyone who resembles a young low-income AA male?  I don't like that trend either, but until things change, that's going to be the perception out there.  The government's solution is to arrest, harrass and intimidate.  If you want other solutions, those are going to have to come from within the AA community itself.[/quote]

Either that, or the government could stop arresting, harassing, and intimidating. If you don't like the trend, don't accept it. Work to change it.[/quote]

It's not a "chicken or egg" thing, doesn't work that way.  Police react to crime and arrest, that's their job, and they surveil and watch potential suspects in high-crime circumstances.  I wouldn't count on them to stop profiling or targeting until AA violent crime is no longer disproportionate to crime in other demographics.  Blaming police for the violence within the AA community is a cop-out.[/quote]

Good grief. "The AA community"? Which community is that? Are you part of "the white community"? Or "the Asian community"?

Anyway, I am not blaming police for violence among poor African-Americans, and I don't think that anybody else on this thread was either. What I am blaming police for is carrying out institutional racism.

Have you seen this video?

http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000001601732/the-scars-of-stop-and-frisk.html

It may be your idea of justice that this young man just has to deal with it, because he is a young African-American man, and young African-American men murder each other a lot -- and if he doesn't like it, it's his responsibility to get other young African-American men to stop murdering each other.  It's not my idea of justice.[/quote]

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