Donna wrote:This argument is completely bogus. Over-policing of black communities inflates black crime rates as more blacks get arrested than whites for similar offences. Black communities are over-policed because of institutional racism, not because individual officers believe black people commit more crimes. Racial bias in police encounters is real, but that's not why there are regressive policing policies in black communities.
Please provide evidence of "over-policing" inflating black crime rates. Blacks kill other blacks at high rates, and you think the problem is too many cops?? Would the black-on-black shootings not happen with less cops? You think very high crime rates among young black men is because they simply arrested more for the same crimes as white people? Do you have evidence to prove any of these claims? So white people are shooting people at the same rates and just not being arrested or going to jail for it in mass numbers? Again, evidence?
I'm also not saying police don't have racist bias, or the courts, yes it does happen, and it's wrong. Just like Floyd's killing
People in Jamaica and Trinidad etc are virtually all black, so are the cops and the judges and the lawyers and the politicians. And they have tons of crime and violence. The primary problems leading to crime there are similar: 1) poverty, and 2) people choosing to do stupid things, like pick up guns and shoot other people, join gangs, do and deal drugs etc.
To say that there is a national crisis of criminality among a racial minority group is some pretty cringe karen tier fash shit.
To say there isn't is to bury your head in the sand. The stats don't lie.
Discrimination has been greatly reduced, as with overt bigotry and prejudice among a great deal of the populace. But I don't think you understand what racism is if you think it hasn't worsened during the nearly four decades of attacks on public programs and social security that have decimated black communities and incarcerated millions.
There have been cuts, this affects low incomes, and you can say disproportionately affects black people since they are often poor. To say it's worse than Jim Crow era 1960's is a bit ridiculous. To say it's due to overt racism is also a claim that's hard to prove. Maybe in some cases it is, maybe in others it isn't. It's hard to prove. I would lay a lot of it on neoliberal economic ideology that is corrupt with politicians bought off to put in policies to benefit the rich to the detriment of the poor and middle class of all races. There's been a lot of policies over the last 40 years that have destroyed the white middle class too. Is this racist?:
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/15078