DGS49
Diamond Member
A letter to the editor of my local birdcage liner, written by a City policeman, triggered a response in me that I have to express.
The writer, a caucasian cop in a city with four major African-American neighborhoods, was reacting to a recent series of "rallies" in these communities, attempting to "create a dialog" between the Police and the Citizens, to "diffuse the tension."
But the rallies and the rhetoric are based on the extremely dubious proposition that the "white" cops are somehow coming into these neighborhoods and victimizing them. And the attitudes that the police experience from the locals in these neighborhoods are consistent with this perception, but it is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
The numbers don't lie. The victimizers in these neighborhoods are the residents themselves. The amount of "white-on-black" crime is negligible, while "black-on-black" crimes, particularly involving violence, is astronomical. And when the (majority white) police come into the neighborhoods in the aftermath of a violent crime, the locals refuse to talk to them and treat them as though THEY WERE THE ONES perpetrating the violence! It is reality turned on its head.
Invariably, when there is a physical altercation between any Black resident and a cop, it arises out of some criminal activity that took place in that neighborhood, and all the cop is trying to do is figure out who did it and to take appropriate police action. But there is a groundswell of public outrage AGAINST THE POLICE when this happens.
How would they feel if the police just said, "Fuck this neighborhood," and refused to come when someone calls 911? Would the neighborhood be better off? There are those who stupidly claim that it would.
Why on earth would any sane person (white person) become a police officer, then risk his life going into such a community, to try to make it a safer place to live, only to face this abuse? It is perverse.
Saint TrayVonn's mother has been cavorting around the country saying that she is going to dedicate her pain and her efforts from now on to "...see that this doesn't happen to anyone else's child..."
What, exactly, would that be? To be shot by an armed white man in the context of committing an aggravated assault?
Just how big a problem does she think this is? Can she ever remember it happening before in her fucking lifetime? Does she think it's an epidemic?
From the time that Saint TrayVonn was killed in Florida until Zimmerman's acquittal, more than a thousand Black "Yoots" were killed by other Blacks in the U.S. Blacks killed by whites? Not so much.
But the problem in the so-called African-American community is rogue Neighborhood Watch volunteers and white police officers.
The denial of reality is breathtaking.
The writer, a caucasian cop in a city with four major African-American neighborhoods, was reacting to a recent series of "rallies" in these communities, attempting to "create a dialog" between the Police and the Citizens, to "diffuse the tension."
But the rallies and the rhetoric are based on the extremely dubious proposition that the "white" cops are somehow coming into these neighborhoods and victimizing them. And the attitudes that the police experience from the locals in these neighborhoods are consistent with this perception, but it is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
The numbers don't lie. The victimizers in these neighborhoods are the residents themselves. The amount of "white-on-black" crime is negligible, while "black-on-black" crimes, particularly involving violence, is astronomical. And when the (majority white) police come into the neighborhoods in the aftermath of a violent crime, the locals refuse to talk to them and treat them as though THEY WERE THE ONES perpetrating the violence! It is reality turned on its head.
Invariably, when there is a physical altercation between any Black resident and a cop, it arises out of some criminal activity that took place in that neighborhood, and all the cop is trying to do is figure out who did it and to take appropriate police action. But there is a groundswell of public outrage AGAINST THE POLICE when this happens.
How would they feel if the police just said, "Fuck this neighborhood," and refused to come when someone calls 911? Would the neighborhood be better off? There are those who stupidly claim that it would.
Why on earth would any sane person (white person) become a police officer, then risk his life going into such a community, to try to make it a safer place to live, only to face this abuse? It is perverse.
Saint TrayVonn's mother has been cavorting around the country saying that she is going to dedicate her pain and her efforts from now on to "...see that this doesn't happen to anyone else's child..."
What, exactly, would that be? To be shot by an armed white man in the context of committing an aggravated assault?
Just how big a problem does she think this is? Can she ever remember it happening before in her fucking lifetime? Does she think it's an epidemic?
From the time that Saint TrayVonn was killed in Florida until Zimmerman's acquittal, more than a thousand Black "Yoots" were killed by other Blacks in the U.S. Blacks killed by whites? Not so much.
But the problem in the so-called African-American community is rogue Neighborhood Watch volunteers and white police officers.
The denial of reality is breathtaking.
