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    Cali4lifeMichael Harriot
    5/08/17 4:57pm

    Sanctioned by white folk everywhere. Conservatives, liberals, progressives, wiccan, gluten free.. doesn’t matter. They all sanction what cops due to/against black folk and other people of color. If they didn’t, none of these cop murders and shit like this in hell, er, IppississiM would keep happening day after day for 400 years. 

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      Vanguard KnightCali4life
      5/08/17 5:38pm

      White people are MORE likely to support a law if they know it discriminates.

      Read about it here:

      https://www.vox.com/2014/8/7/5978551/study-racism-criminal-justice-stop-and-frisk-reform-support

      We need to stop lying to ourselves that whites are interested in justice.

      Due to automation jobs will become scarce. White communities will quickly remember the tactics of the past when the pressure really begins to hit in earnest.

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    IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerMichael Harriot
    5/08/17 4:02pm

    Damn. This isn’t even ‘law enforcement’ as much as it is ‘gang activity sanctioned by the local populace/government’.

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      FreshlyShavenIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
      5/08/17 4:27pm

      But that’s what law enforcement is in the US.

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      CreativeNamePlaceholderIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
      5/08/17 4:42pm

      I’m having a hard time figuring out if there’s even a difference between the 2.

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    StartingOverAgainMichael Harriot
    5/08/17 5:58pm

    Although much of America is still segregated, the city of Madison is 85 percent white, while the county seat of Canton is 75 percent black. It is the richest county in the state, but most of that wealth is concentrated in the white areas.

    What happens when both the police and the ACLU crack open those two sentences during the trial is going to be the whole shooting match in terms of how big an impact this case has in terms of any changes, I think.

    Here in Dallas County, for example, it wouldn’t shock me in the least if Generic Expert Criminologist #1 could argue successfully on behalf of the city that county level arrest statistics aren’t worth the paper they are printed on for determining much of anything, as you have essentially completely separate worlds contained within an arbitrarily derived legal boundary.

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      crouching tigerStartingOverAgain
      5/08/17 9:29pm

      Criminology is an intellectually bankrupt discipline. I don’t trust their numbers, because they come out of racist and structurally unequal policing.

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      StartingOverAgaincrouching tiger
      5/09/17 10:17am

      I mean, maybe, but I don’t think their statistics themselves are actually all that borked. The point I was driving at is that if you take a county, such as Dallas for example which I know, and you say “Arrest rates for blacks (and in Texas you’d also have to look at Hispanics) are x multiples that of whites” that’s only one dimension and it’s also probably not a very useful one to look at absent a more granular analysis.

      I’m not sure how many white people live in south Dallas, but it is certainly a lot fewer than the 55% of Dallas county that all whites make up. However, the fact is that Dallas county contains some communities that are much, much poorer than other communities, south Dallas being a primary example, and one thing that criminology’s numbers tell us and that pretty much no one disagrees with is that crime is more pervasive in poverty stricken areas.

      To the extent that white people have more money, and are more clustered in Highland Park (the rich part of the county) as compared to south Dallas (the poor part of the county) seeing lower arrest rates for whites at the county level speaks more to structural issues that go far beyond just policing tactics.

      To really understand policing in “Dallas county” you need to break it down by area. What are the arrest rates for whites in south Dallas, or Oaklawn, as compared to the arrest rates for blacks in those same places?

      Madison county appears to provide a very stark example of this as well. 85% of the county is white while 75% of the county seat itself is black, showing a remarkable degree of segregation.

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    ariesdragon123Michael Harriot
    5/08/17 8:15pm

    Lawsuit: Miss. Sheriff’s Department America has Illegally Targeted Black Population for Decades the entirety of its history.

    FTFY.

    Honestly, I wish I could say I was surprised. But I’m not. It’s why I take those black-on-black crime numbers with a grain of salt. This one got taught, but this problem is widespread and rampant. And isn’t going to be fixed without serious institutional reform.

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    eoghan01Michael Harriot
    5/08/17 6:06pm

    Seems like something the Justice Department should be addressing. But I guess Jeff Sessions thinks this is just a creative way of funding the department without increasing taxes.

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    Raineyb1013Michael Harriot
    5/08/17 8:38pm

    Really? You don’t say!

    Well, it’s nice that the ACLU finally caught on to some shit that’s only been happening since this country’s inception.

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    Manitos, The Tiny Hands of TrumpMichael Harriot
    5/08/17 4:31pm

    A.C.A.B.

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    SenescenceIsRealMichael Harriot
    5/08/17 5:51pm

    And Mississippi Goddam still applies.

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    PonyBoyMF, redacted for pleasureMichael Harriot
    5/08/17 4:25pm

    fuck

    the

    police

    rinse and repeat

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    ariesdragon123Michael Harriot
    5/08/17 8:16pm

    Kinja occasionally posts my stuff twice ever since this infinite scrolling feature got added. UGH.

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