ScootyHoofdorp t1_ixp08lw wrote
Reply to comment by cologne_peddler in City reaches 300th homicide for 8th year in a row by Maxcactus
It seems that you're the one who is proving my point. The fact that black people don't think that cops will treat them fairly but STILL want them in their neighborhoods clearly shows that they believe cops can prevent and address crime. That's the only logical way to reconcile the 81% figure and the 75% figure. I don't buy that that large of majority of black people have no idea what they're talking about, and that's what you want me to believe.
I think we've gone back and forth about policing enough. We're not going to change each other's minds. But, I do genuinely want to know if you have any ideas for addressing the murder rate in the near to mid term. To put some rough numbers on that, how do we get under 200 murders in 5 years' time? Do you even think that's possible?
cologne_peddler t1_ixpyvsm wrote
Your ✌️point✌️ is that one part of an opinion poll reflects the unmovable sentiment of a group of people you never interact with. I told you why this point was flawed:
-The conflicting sentiment in the poll itself
-Polling around new ideas move. A lot. Again, if this were 1960, you'd be using a poll to explain that Black people really want everyone to stop demonstrating. And that would have been an idiotic thing to propose.
The idea that American policing is a failure took seed and germinated in Black communities..places where those failures are most plainly manifest. So to be all "sEe ThEy wAnT cOpS bEcAuSe tHiS pOlL sEz So" is oblivious white guy shit. You're like a caricature of a privileged gentrifier lol. If this were 1990 you'd be the "some of my friends are Black" guy.
Anyway, there's no quick policing solution to elevated crime rates. There's only ineffective, reactionary bullshit that further victimizes marginalized people. Relying on cops to address society's structural deficiencies is dead. I feel like more privileged white people need to get slaughtered by cops before yall fucking get it. I mean, it took an opioid epidemic tearing through the burbs for you all to rethink our punitive approach to drug addiction.
ScootyHoofdorp t1_ixx4go7 wrote
I should have expected that you'd provide just as many ideas for how to reduce violent crime as you have datapoints to support the idea that a majority of black people want less police.
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