Police Profiling

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You don't need an actual conspiracy when you have many people with the same prejudices. The effect can seem quite like a conspiracy. Crime is a symptom. Rioting is a symptom of a symptom. The cause is much deeper. An overwhelmingly white police force spends their time in this black community profiling black people, treating them pre-emptively like criminals. And before you defend profiling... The Ferguson police department was more likely to find "contraband" on the white people they stopped and searched than on the black ones. We have plenty of stats to show how police and law enforcement in general are in essence racist. For example, a black drug user is ten times more likely to be charged than a white drug user. If you're a white teenager…show more content…
For example, if you look at rates of expulsion from school, even in elementary schools, white kids are more likely to get a slap on the wrist, repeated offenses get them suspensions. Black kids are more likely to get kicked out and not given as many chances. I know here in America we like to pretend like Racism is over and that the black community should just be totally over slavery by now, it's been 140 years! But they've been a disenfranchised community this whole time. How about the St. Louis Police Lieutenant that was caught telling his officers "Let’s have a black day,” and “Let’s make the jail cells more colorful.” That wasn't 1965, that was last year. There are people alive who lived under Jim Crow laws. We have a bunch of republican controlled states that are doing their best to disenfranchise black voters, blocking extended voting hours, early voting, but only in the inner cities. The number one indicator of success for a child is living in a two-parent household. Across socio-economics, across backgrounds, if you've got a single-mother, you're more likely to do poorly in school and end up in…show more content…
But the police never do anything wrong. Police officers shoot and kill people all the time, and they are almost never brought up on charges. It's a rarity. Just ask the FBI, they have a perfect record, according to themselves: The FBI’s record is faultless, according to the FBI. The New York Times highlighted Wednesday that according to internal investigations carried out by the agency on 150 shootings of the last two decades, not one has been deemed improper. So think about the tension of living in that town with a police force that you know is not going to hesitate to kill you if they feel at all threatened. They're supposed to be protecting and serving you, not getting trigger happy the moment they feel at all threatened. So imagine living in that kind of poor community, with all these single-mothers and fathers in jail, many of them on non-violent drug charges. And even if they are in jail for violent crime, why did they become criminals? What kind of environment were they raised in? So when they hear that a policeman killed an unarmed teenager, they already know that there won't be justice. That's why they protest. Because they have no other
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