I do watch looting live and see people say it’s peaceful. I don’t know what news sources are acceptable not sure who does. It only provides citations for a very few of it's assertions of statistical evidence to support the article, the studies it does link to have extremely narrow scopes, and the article itself focuses solely on shooting of citizens by police, neglecting entirely that people are often killed by police without the use of firearms (see Floyd, George), or that police brutality and/or harrassment can occur without death or serious bodily injury.įinally, while the article pays lip service to the belief that bad actors should be held accountable, it completely dodges addressing the fact that police are not now, nor have they ever been, held accountable for their bad actions, which is the whole fucking reason people are out in the streets. I'm sorry, but that article is absolute dreck, even for an opinion article. Whether it’s Brees, Kavanaugh, Biden, or Trump there seems to be a great amount of hypocrisy at work.
The research doesn’t seem to back what people are saying. However, recent events have led to me watching more news, and in turn, doing more research. Hope the link works, as this is the only website or social media I ever post on and I am not real sophisticated at it. Some corruption begs not the cloth, but the knife. This isn't a situation to erase a few bad marks and wipe off the residue. There have been more dangerous jobs the entire time, and now during Covid, your average grocery clerk has a better chance of staring down death on the job than a cop. Of course there's been no meaningful change, when something and happens and they get called to task, our elected officials give them the most minor of new checks, usually mostly self-policed, and lay on thick the the rhetoric about how it's a tough job and they out their lives on the line. They can 99% of the time have their duties handled by social workers. If there is to be change, that is where to look. The current and previous police chief attempted to enact reforms, but it was either taken to arbitration by the union and over turned or the police licensing body declined to move forward. The damage is every bit as bad as caused cynical looters and anarchist rioters hiding behind genuine protesters. I’d like to believe there are plenty of honorable and well intentioned police officers, but the damage from them enabling bad actors is unconscionable. Self-interested institutions like that are very hard to change. They’re also a bastion of low-educated white working class male jobs, with all of the political connotations. Police develop the mindset of an occupation force, they act with impunity and prize loyalty over integrity, they attract (and select for?) fascistic types, they are protected by prosecutors, unions, judges and politicians. Citizen review boards, body cams, etc are not scratching the surface.
Because it’s really disheartening how little has changed over the years. I would love to see if that would make a meaningful change to the culture of a large police force. The Minneapolis City Council is looking in to scrapping the entire MPD and starting over.