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Originally Posted by SerenityLives
My question to you is how do you go about helping these people with these societal barriers with just stats and quantifying variables? some of the funds that go to stopping and frisking should help these people seek employment and housing
But since you are into stats, take a look at this:
https://www.epi.org/blog/racial-disp...rowth-in-2019/
How do we change it? |
Interesting articles. Look, I'm certainly not saying police are perfect. They are human and are influenced by many things. One is that blacks and hispanics statistically commit more crimes than whites. And in certain urban areas, this number goes way up. Now does that make it right that they stop someone just because of color? Of course not. And in many of the things I've read, police who are black or hispanic stop even more minorities proportionately! So it's hard to call that racist, right?
I do feel for issues with minorities regarding income, etc. I grew up in a very bigoted home (my grandfather had been in the KKK), but rebelled against that and had a couple very close black friends as a teenager. We had a wonderful time together (did some interesting role-reversals to play jokes on others, but that's another story) and I stayed with their families in "the projects" for some periods of time. Due to financial issues I later lived in a couple slum areas in different parts of the country, and got to experience things firsthand - like being mugged, twice. (then I received grants to go to college . . .) This gives me something of a unique perspective that many whites might not have.
But the supposed cure so far has been for government to throw more money and onerous legislation at the problem, which makes much of it worse in my opinion. Doing this is an emotional reaction to the issue, and it makes people think we are doing something to fix it. So far, to me, the federal government hasn't demonstrated it can do this sort of thing effectively. But something gets done, politicians get elected, and people feel good about it . . . at least until they see it doesn't work, then they want government to do more about it. The numbers spent on the "war on poverty" over five decades are absolutely staggering!
So I see the same thing about to happen with the whole supposedly widespread systemic police racism thing. Government will get bigger and more money will be thrown at it and people will feel good, at least for awhile . . .