Quote:I see that a lot. People think the police need better training. How should they improve upon training? Everyone says this but no one offers ideas.

 

Now it's racism? How? I'm going to tell you, in the most simple of examples, why black neighborhoods receive more attention from police. They are, historically, more likely to commit crimes. Keep in mind, these are black neighborhoods where blacks are the offenders and victims. Robberies, burglaries, assaults, murders, etc. etc.

 

When the local commissioners see this, they put more police in those areas. More police = more police interactions. More police interactions in crime-filled neighborhoods in a country where everyone has a gun equals more police-involved shootings. 

 

I promise you that if black people took this conviction and applied it toward self-reflection and fixing their neighborhoods, then they would see fewer police in their neighborhood. 

 

On your first point, somethings got to change.  Better?  Maybe.  Different?  Absolutely.  They will change because they must.  

 

On your second remark.  I did not say it is all racism, but it is certainly a factor. <a>http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324432004578304463789858002</a>.  Another interesting article from other cops: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/2...EV20141223.  I could post articles for days on this, but it is alive and well in the system.

 

Here is something that stood out from that 2nd article: Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but ONE said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime.  The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.

 

Some of the other things you state are certainly other reasons.  But you only see it from one side.  I think if you lived in a black man's shoes you would look at the world differently.  I guess my point is you only view it from one point of view,... yours and you don't consider that cops are part of the problem and racism is also part of the problem as well as the other things you mentioned.

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