Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Logan Paul Schools His Audience On White Privilege" video.
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@Happy2_B_Blue I agree that progress was made. The problem is that people do not understand that it takes time. I had a conversation about this with a few of my colleagues and they wonder why the cop was not immediately arrested. The problem is that, with him being a cop, if you were to arrest him right there they could not give a definitive reason as the cop was doing an arrest himself and it would be unclear at the time if his actions were justified and police protocol. While for many it appears it was not, legally speaking any lawyer can argue that that the arrest was not justified at the time leading to write of habeous corpus where, even if he were to go to trial, the punishment would not be that harsh. Thus it takes time to investigate. They did with him and found enough evidence for 3rd degree murder at least. More investigation has lead to 2nd degree murder and the other cops charged. Again, it takes time. But when they found any excuse to arrest him they were able to.
As for the policies, going though each one
1. Minority populations are "targeted" more because more crime is committed there. They give a 287 stat but no sources. It is also a huge leap to go from people being killed by cops and going to the conclusion of racism when other factors are at play. Read the study entitled
"Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings"
Case in point, there are other factors at play. Not saying that study is gospel, just saying it is much more complex than saying minority communities are targeted.
2. I agree with this one and have said that groups like BLM can hire private investigators and lawyers to looking into these issues. Now why aren't they? There are intelligent people with the group. Take Cornel West for example. I imagine that he, via working in Harvard and Yale, would know some. Instead he goes on CNN and says something needs to change. Ok, what, professor?
So I agree with this step, now do it.
3. The problem with this one is that nations like England, Germany and Japan simply have less violent cultures. Take the UK for example. If you were to remove just gun laws from the US the US will still have a murder rate that is the same as the UK. Why? Our culture is simply more violent. Thus removing excess force will lead to more dead cops.
4. This is the same as solution 2
5. On this one the research varies as pointed out by the study I listed above. The problem with this is that this is the definition of racism in that we should hire cops not on quality but based on the color of their skin. Ever thought we have more white cops in proportion of our population because simply more white people apply?
6. I 100% agree with body cams.
7. I agree with reforming training as well.
8. When does for profit policing happen?
9. The police is far from militarized. For example, they do not have fighter jets. However, some of the weaponry they have is excessive as in the vehicles that can be used by only the military. But in some cases they do need them. In LA there was a bank robbery where the robbers had automatic guns and the cops did not. It lead to cops being killed and the situation from not be deesculated. With that the laws were changed allowing cops access to such weaponry. So this isn't that easy of an issue to take one.
Overall, as you can see I did not dismiss all of them. I agreed with many. With conversation we can find a common ground. Problem is that people do not want that and many just cry racism. Where were the protests when Tony Timpa was killed? Look up the situation, I feel it was worse than what happened to Floyd and the cops mocked him when he passed out and he eventually died. But no protests there.
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