I believe the Police want to be the do-gooders/heroes in society, but.....there's something wrong when you are bringing the hammer down all the time. Why threaten to shoot someone, if they are not in the middle of violence? Why are they freaking out? Are they conditioned to think that only in black neighbors does violence occur? Or maybe they need a lot of training. Maybe they spend the majority of the time in front of minorities and if they spent their time in white neighborhoods they would be bringing the hammer down there too. I don't know, I am just asking. Maybe its the culture? Show eveyone who is boss? Dude what about the constitution, it should be more important than their jobs or quotas.....
Most police generally want to help, most police are good people who are overworked in a sucky environment.
Police get assigned where the crime is. Unfortunately that is largely in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Many of those neighborhoods, depending upon the area, are populated by minorities. Most of the crime that happens here is minority on minority because that is the demographic distribution reality. (This is an action item that should be worked on.)
Police use force because dealing with criminals and crime is largely freaking dangerous. Police get killed and hurt a lot. A lot of the time it is for stupid things like domestic disturbances. People call 911 for idiotic reasons drawing armed police officers into places that they just don't belong. If your kid is being rebellious, this isn't a problem for the police to freaking solve. (Culling out what police will respond to and in what manner is also something that can be worked on.)
Police don't have a special hard on for shooting black people. White dudes get shot a lot too. Just last week in Tucson. Dude lived, but was lucky. Could just have easily have been dead. Dude was firing at the police. National news media only report incidents where the person shot was black.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...pursuing-officers/5644360002/?ocid=uxbndlbing
(getting the media to get facts before reporting and giving proper context would also be helpful.)
Generally police departments cannot afford to have officers employed where there is little crime. You don't WANT more officers than you need for safeties sake either. Getting that mix is very hard, because once in a while extra officers are REALLY needed. Current solution is overtime hours and it is far from optimal. (this is another action item.)
Saying all police offers or even a majority of police officers are power hungry zealots is just as damaging as saying all black males are thugs. A lot of police offers ARE minorities. Are people assuming that they have bought into systematic racism and enjoy shooting black people? You can't expect people to honestly work with you when your rhetoric is vile, overheated, and attached to political points not really attached to the issue. (communication and vilification is a problem and something that CAN be worked on.)
The real problem is that many of these systematic issues are used as political cudgels. Once an issue is fashioned into a weapon the chances of it getting solved are practically nil, because the daily 2 minutes of hate is a lot easier to manage than hard work and compromise.
