Reply to Correlation of SES status, race, and FARMS with test scores and disruptiveness?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Correlation of SES status, race, and FARMS with test scores and disruptiveness?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][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]

your entire post is a cop out.  whites commit crimes too, and they are not profiled. Innocent AA's and Latinos are constantly profiled even when they are doing nothing, and let us not even get into privatization of prisons, falsifying evidence to arrest and convict folks to fill the prisons and trust me it will not be white.[/quote]

Bullshit, if you don't think cops don't target and profile certain groups of whites, for example bikers, trailer park folks trash they suspect of brewing meth, Italian-Americans suspected of being involved in organized crime, white supremacists, et cetera.  Check FBI - there's tons of categories of white folks that they profile, intimidate, harrass and routinely arrest on the weakest of charges.  You must seriously be living under a rock if you think whites are so untouchable.  Yes, privatized prisons are a problem but again, that's NOT about race - check this out, the "Kids for Cash" scandal involving a privatized juvenile detention center - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal - those were overwhelmingly WHITE kids getting railroaded and sent there.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics