Posted on 07/15/2009 6:11:00 AM PDT by shortstop
The NAACP has an idea.
A big idea. It was announced this week at the civil-rights organization's 100th-birthday celebration.
It is going to help the NAACP serve its members and black America.
Or so they say.
It's called the "Rapid Report System." Essentially, it is an effort to use technology and the Internet to seek out and collect reports of police misconduct. Put simply, the NAACP is asking people to use their cell phones to video record their interactions with the police. If you see a cop, whip out the camera.
And send the video to the NAACP.
"Nationwide, more than 26,000 citizen complaints of police officer use of force were filed with state and local law enforcement agencies in 2002," said NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. "However, because many incidents are not reported, this number does not capture the full magnitude of the problem."
And the NAACP wants to solve the problem. The NAACP wants to highlight and irradicate police misconduct.
"Research has shown that there are many barriers to reporting incidents of police misconduct," Jealous said, "including intimidation at police departments and a lack of trust in the integrity of the system, among other reasons. This breakdown leads to an absence of public safety and a deterioration of the quality of life in many communities of color. But public safety is a civil and a human right; and so we want a more accurate count of these incidents."
Let me see if I understood things correctly.
The gentleman claims that there is "intimidation at police departments" and a "lack of trust in the integrity of the system," and that constitutes a "breakdown" which "leads to an absence of public safety and a deterioration of the quality of life in many communities of color." Now, it's true that many "communities of color" are among the most lawless and dangerous places in our society. But now the NAACP is claiming that that is because of the police, that it is somehow some failure of police respect for the community that deteriorates "the quality of life in many communities of color?"
Huh. All this time I thought it was the criminals. All this time I thought that the dangerous part of some "communities of color" was the kids with guns and the stabbings at the school and the drug dealers on the corner, the thugs who will rob grama's Social Security check the day it comes and the burglars and thieves who take everything they can. I actually thought it was criminals who were the problem.
Not cops.
I thought that the reason black people are more likely than any other demographic group to be the victims of a crime is because of criminals.
But apparently it's not the robbers and rapists and murderers who bother the NAACP. It's not the pimps or the dealers or the shooters. It's the cops. And the NAACP wants to lead black America in an ongoing surveillance of the cops. Some videos will be released nationally to the media as soon as they come in. Others will be saved up to be sent to the Department of Justice.
Essentially, the NAACP has decided it wants to enflame, exacerbate and benefit from the stereotypical bad relations between African-Americans and the police. Instead of soothing strained feelings and correcting mistaken impressions, it seeks to become the leader of a nationwide videotaping effort against the police.
Which is just backwards. It's not the Man most blacks have to fear, it's the brother. The issue endangering black America is not police misconduct, it is black-on-black crime.
Instead of training its cameras on the good guys, the NAACP should lead its followers to turn their cameras on the bad guys.
Instead of collecting pictures of police, the NAACP should collect pictures of criminals. Discreet cell-phone pictures of drug dealers or gang members or other bad apples could be snapped across the country, sent to the NAACP and turned over to authorities. The NAACP could actually help fight crime instead of scapegoat the police. Actual criminals could be caught, crime could be fought and neighborhoods could be protected.
But the NAACP isn't interested in that. The NAACP has determined that it is the police who devastate black neighborhoods, not the criminals.
Which is just one more indication of how completely clueless and irrelevant the NAACP is.
Yes...because you see, the police are the bad guys... </sarc>
Yeah, soon enough the cops will be repurposed to arresting those who don’t swear a blood oath to The One and his Glorious Empire.
But they’ll do it only after hard negotiations for new machine guns and APCs.
Can the white guys have an eye on police too.
Post racial America sure has a lot of racism.
They already have copwatch. Is that only for white folks?
If you see a cop, whip out the camera.
If a white junkie is arrested, NAACP will concur.
If a black junkie is arrested, NAACP will protest that the civil rights of the junkie were somehow violated.
Oy Vey!!!!!!!!!
And who is going to keep tabs on these new thugs?
The National Association for the Advancement of Coddled People strikes again.
It would be nice if they used their energies to really help their own community before casting their eyes on anything. Racism and feeling sorry for yourself doesn’t quite cut it anymore.
And here is the page on the NAACP website where you can upload your video or picture.
http://www.naacp.org/research/test/mobile/mobile/
Don’t you know, only blacks can look out for blacks.
WE want an eye on the NAACP (National African American Communist Progressives).
Black people are in such denial.
I was recently on a jury and the black jurors didn’t even want to vote guilty on the charges to which the guy admitted guilt. They kept trying to think of creative excuses....excused that the accused and his attorney had not
even attempted to use because they were so lame and unbelievable.
And then when I wanted to vote guilty, they accused me of doing so because “he’s a black boy.” I ignored the comment because it would have ended in an argument but inside I was FUMING. And by accusing me of racism, the black person only increased my fortitude to stand my ground.
Simple solution - don’t police A-A neighborhoods. Its all love and kindness there, so no need. Redirect resources elsewhere and let the NAACP police those neighborhoods with their cell phones. Wonder how long that would last.
I’m not surprised...good for you for standing your ground.
Right on target.
Upload photos of blacks caught comitting crimes.
Which is basically what the Cincinnati police did a few years ago when accused of profiling. In short order the Anti-Americans were agitating for the police to come back into their neighborhoods and “profile” again.
A lot of posters on FR agree with you, no sarcasm.
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