Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
by kar5pt on Saturday April 24, 2021 @02:39PM
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It seems like a completely different argument to me. He's not arguing that committing crimes (or being involved in events that may be legally deemed crimes after the fact) means that someone _deserves_ to have force used on them. He's saying that it makes sense that police would be more likely to use force against people who are more frequently involved in said events.
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Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
by stadium on Saturday April 24, 2021 @04:58PM
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> it makes sense that police would be more likely to use force against people who are more frequently involved in said events
Hence the systemic racism problem in a nutshell. It only makes sense through the lense of human bias and racism. Are those "people" really more frequently involved in said events, or are they more frequently policed?