The real racial bias: Cops more willing to shoot whites than blacks, study finds

If it becomes (in this political climate, especially) a question of whether to lose one’s career or lose one’s life, I reckon they’ll shoot.

IIRC, the same principle applies to the death penalty.

One of my neighbors is a former Detroit cop and he has stated the same.

Even with a 60% black police force the risks of shooting a black man were far greater than shooting a white man. Even a clearly wrongful shooting of a white man isn’t going to bring marchers to the streets and threats of violence they way the justified shooting of a black man will.

Its also unlikely that the family of a white man shot by police will threaten or hunt down a cop and his family. Just a couple years ago 4 cops were shot inside a Detroit precinct by the brother of a man killed by police.

Cops more willing to shoot whites than blacks, study finds

Duh.

It reminds me of what happened in 1966. My family was moving to Seattle and we were going to rent out our house. My parents left the house one day and told me that they had run an ad and if anyone called that sounded black, tell them the house is rented. I asked them why. I remember my dad’s words to this day:

If we end up renting to white deadbeats, we can evict them, but if they are black deadbeats, we’re stuck with them because of government “protection” of blacks.

And this was in a small town in Washington state back in 1966!

This will not be reported by the likes of MSNBC, CNN, etc.

But there’s a subroutine that runs if the suspect is black that doesn’t run if he’s white - will I lose my career over this?

Another example of the opposite result of the “intent” of a government policy.

Was there a meaningful article buried somewhere in all that advertising & link bait?

Solving the Police Problem

If They Don’t Want to be Policed, Don’t Police Them
by Fred Reed
December 31, 2014

It is obvious, is it not, that all of the recent problems with the
police have occurred because cops keep meddling with people. If the
fuzz had left Rodney King alone, Los Angeles would not have burned. If
the cop in Ferguson had not stopped Michael Brown after he robbed the
store, the town would not have burned. If a New York cop had not tried
to keep from selling illegal cigarettes, there would be no protests.
If OJ Simpson had not been prosecuted for murdering his wife, racial
tension would have been less. On and on.

It is blindingly clear that nothing but trouble results when cops
interact with criminals in places of high diversity. It makes no sense
to meddle. It is racism. It is irresponsible. It leads to arson. It
needs to stop.

And it can.

If you were a young white cop just out of the academy, and asked my
advice, I would say, “When on the street, mind your own business.” For
example, if you see a drug dealer on the corner peddling rock, what
should you do? Nothing. Doing nothing protects you, protects the
dealer, and keeps the locals from burning the neighborhood. As a
police officer, it is your duty to protect.

Do nothing. Here’s why: Let us suppose that the dealer is young,
weighs 290 and, when you try to arrest him, says, “Fuck off, whitey.”
You are 35, 180, and haven’t been to the gym for a while. What can you
do?

You could call for backup and five of you could swarm the guy, but
that looks bad to the population. (”Dem white muhfuhs be gangin’ up on
a brotha.”) Your other choices are try to wrestle him down,
pepper-spray him, Tase him, club him, or shoot him. All of these are
ugly to watch and upset the locals.

All have a chance of ending unhappily. The perp has asthma and the
pepper spray does him in, or has a weak heart and the Taser croaks
him.

Then here come Jesse and Al, Barack and Eric, the Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse. You will be raped in the media, lose your job and your
mortgage, goodbye retirement, and face six months of media circus,
death threats against your family, civil suits by the family and
civil-rights charges by the feds.

Don’t risk it. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Leave
drug peddlers alone. Don’t get involved.

Nonintervention, note, will please everybody. If your department
really is brutal, as all are said to be, you can’t be brutal if you
leave people alone. Complaints about misbehavior will diminish,
pleasing blacks and liberals, and this will make your chief happy.

When you go on the street as a rookie, you will find that police
incidents fall into three categories.

First, things that you encounter by chance: crack whores, bar fights,
drug dealers, muggings, burglaries, the fifteen-year-old runaway being
worked by her pimp, the guy breaking car windows to steal the GPS.
These are the small change of police life. Ignore them. You can later
say that you didn’t see anything. It is much harder for the feds to
come after you for something you didn’t do than for something you did.
Again, you have nothing to gain by interfering with local enterprise.

Second, hot calls: rape in progress, armed robbery in progress. You
have to answer these because dispatchers record their radio traffic.
They are, however, calls dangerous to you. For example, rapists often
have violent tendencies. They usually do not want to go to jail. A
rapist may attack you with a length of rebar, in which case your
choices are to shoot him or have your skull crushed. How do you profit
from either of these outcomes?

The armed robbery offers equal hazards with no rewards. Armed robbers
typically are armed. In a shootout you very possibly get killed, which
is not to your advantage, or the perp does. It then turns out that he
was sixteen, wanted to go to divinity school, the gun was plastic or a
cell phone. Brutality, extremism, overreaction, profiling, black lives
matter, and here come the Four Horsemen.

But a wise cop can easily avoid these perils. Rapes don’t last long,
nor do armed robberies. When you respond to the call, drive at the
speed limit, stop for traffic lights, and hit the siren and bar lights
well before you arrive at the scene. When you get there, the rapist
will be long gone.

This is a happy ending for everyone. You are happy because you will
not be charged with racially motivated murder. The rapist is happy
because he will not go to jail. Businesses are happy because they
won’t be looted, the locals because a brothah was not mistreated.

Be very careful of profiling beefs. Since this sin is not defined, you
can never tell when you have committed it. Suppose you encounter a
2015 Beamer with the passenger-side window broken out, plates with
rust stains around the bolt holes, and a nineteen-year-old driver in
ghetto-bag attire who refuses to make eye contact. What do you do?

Nothing. It would be profiling. (If you saw him run out of a bank with
a gun in one hand and a bag of money in the other, and arrested him,
it would be profiling.) Don’t risk it. The locals will appreciate your
sensitivity.

Technical tip: Don’t run the tags out of curiosity. They will come
back to a 2006 Camry, and you will be on electronic record as knowing
the car was stolen and not doing anything about it. It isn’t your
problem. The insurance company can handle it.

If you are of liberal leanings, you can think in terms of cost and
benefit. Is an $80 GPS worth a man’s life? Should a rapist die because
of ten minutes of bad sex? Ferguson burn over a handful of stolen
cigars?

In black neighborhoods, you should do nothing at all in response to
anything. This just shows a decent respect for the desires of the
population, who do not like white cops, or any cops. (Chanting “What
do we want? Dead cops”, would seem indicative.) Find a good bar or
doughnut shop. Stay in it.

In mixed regions, arrest only middle-class whites over forty-five to
avoid profiling. As for the neighborhoods of rich white liberals, they
do not need police because they live in gated communities, so you
probably will never be assigned there.

It is simple democracy. In regions that are almost entirely diverse,
people do not want to be policed. It is unmistakable. Why force
outside cops on them? It leads to chaos, arson, and armored
shoe-stores. Should they not be allowed to police themselves as they
choose, to the extent they choose, as towns once did? Live and let
live. It is the American way.

You promote the surrender of those charged with defending the fabric of civilization as a practical matter. Now I must ask, is it worth it to give up? Will that ever cause things to improve?

What is the point of laws if we do not either enforce or repeal them?

No wonder the Constitution is disregarded so openly.

There was a time when America had the balls to say "looters will be shot" and do it.

You see, you have the wrong people asking whether an $80 GPS is worth a life. The ones asking that should be the thieves. Every time they go to steal something, they should be asking themselves "Is this worth getting killed over?"

We would have a lot fewer thieves, one way or another.

“.......... will I lose my career over this?”.

Soon, ALL police officers will have their hands tied when confronting black or Hispanics with a gun.

This same thing is happening to our military people. (The enemy must shoot first before return fire is warranted).

ASSANIGN!!!!!

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