Quote: (06-24-2013 09:26 PM)Don Juan Tenorio Wrote:
It's not about being suited up, it's about not looking/behaving in a threatening way:
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Apples and Oranges. Hoodies and baseball caps aren't indicative of criminal activity. They aren't gang attire.
Everybody regardless of race and social class under the age of 30 wears then. Military jackets, high leather boots and bald head not so much....
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You can dress the way you want to, but as the way you
dress and how you speak affects your game and how you interact with girls it will do with cops perceiving you as a potential
threat and acting consequently.
No arguments there with regard to girls. Unless the kid is rocking gang colors or he fits the description of a wanted
criminal, cops shouldn't be stopping people based on attire alone. Also, a lot of young Black kids now love to wear skinny jeans with their butt cheeks showing and tight clothing, that has to be a god sent to cops because you can tell he's not carrying a gun and he wont run fast.
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Continueing with cops... have you considered that maybe other
ethnics are stopped by the police as much as you
No they are not. This is not even in dispute. Just in NYC alone.
In 2011, in New York City, 685,724 people were stopped, 84 percent of whom were Black and Latino residents
In 2011, 88 percent of all stops did not result in an arrest or a summons being given.
A little math for you. 685,724*84%=576,008
576,008*88%=506,887 the number of minorities that were not doing anything wrong and were stopped and searched by cops.
http://ccrjustice.org/racial-disparity-n...and-frisks
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/...index.html
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just they assume that cops are doing their job, cooperate, answer questions, show documents and continue without making fuss? I've been stopped by cops at home and abroad, I just show my ID or my passport, answer politely the questions and carry on. Whatever race I am or whatever country I am if I am aggressive and hostile the officers will reflect on my attitude, they're just normal people and they want to have a smooth
shit, avoid confrontations and go back home so much as we do. In the case the officer is a jackass (and there is nothing worst than a jackass with power, whatever race he is) and he had a bad day, his team lost or he found someone is banging his wife the least you should do is be cocky, the wisest move is to be smooth, cooperate and if he breaks the rules talk with
your lawyer or a human rights association and sue the hell out of him.
When you were stopped by the police where you wearing a suit? where they pointing their guns at you? did they search you? put their hands down your pants and felt around the nutsack area while your hands were against the wall?
How often the above would have to happen to you before you are no longer care if a cop had "bad day?"
People are all up in arms that the NSA is going thru everybody email in search of terrorism plots.. Don't Black males have a right to be upset if they being searched randomly as well and ask the police to respect their constitutional rights?
If I am being searched because the cop has probable cause that I just committed a crime, that's fine. But if they are doing it as a fishing expedition that cop will not have my understanding and sympathies.
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I don't discriminate on people on the grounds of race, nationality, religion... I judge them for what they are and what they do. However I can't avoid being biased by previous (bad) experiences; I've had previous bad experiences with gipsies thus I keep the guard up, however I don't take it on every gipsy I meet and I don't know and I give him a chance to prove me I'm wrong; so far all Jeova Whitnesses I've met are
reliable people, what makes me keep the guard low what doesn't mean he could double cross me.
Fair enough.
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Maybe cops have had previous negative experiences with black
young males, or maybe it's the high rates of criminality, rape, drug offenses or behaviours like those seen in NOLA during the hurricane (specially comparing it with the behaviour of other people dealing with natural disasters like Japan or New Zealand)
Is true, Black and Hispanic men commit most of the felonies in NYC. NYC also has the largest population Blacks living in the US about 3.5 million Blacks. Is the solution is stopping and searching every Black male 15-35 regardless whether he's doing activity that's indicative of criminality? Every single Black male I know in NYC has been stopped by the police at least
once.
Are the cops stopping and searching that many males because they are afraid of their safety? or because they know if you stop and search enough Black males is only a matter time you going to run into somebody who has a gun or contraband?
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In Scandinavia, for example, they have virtually no black
population before the 70ies, except for some musician, artist or student, they approached them with curiosity and interest.
Black men had a chance to a new start from zero, break all prejudices and gain a new reputation... even a very popular local
folk band, Hellbillies, made a song dedicated to the first black man that came to their countryside:
What happened? Instead of kissing the ground they tread on, thank God every day for having been given assylum in the most
socially developed countries in the world, with free health care, free education including college, a sallary from the
government for every kid they have, and many other things that most africans can just dream about. What did they do those
Somalians, Nigerians etc did?:
I thought all the problems in Scandinavian was being caused by Arab Muslim? But I don't know enough Scandinavia racial
politics to have an opinion either way.
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I don't justify inapropriate or discriminatory treatment against
you nor taking it on innocent people for what others do just because you're from the same ethnics, just try to point out the
reason why some people do.
Things are a little more complicated than what you have outlined above.
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You're not responsible for what other members of your community have done, so aren't the cops for what other cops have done,
thus the best solution is to be polite.
Fair enough.
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If you have a look at the websites of Miami, Santa Fe, etc and
you will find plenty if not most of hispanic surnames among the high ranks.
Proves nothing. Hispanic is not a race. Senator Marco Rubio and I are both Cubans. He's White and I am dark as coal. In other words, back in the 1950's, I would have to drink from the Black water fountain and him from the White one.
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Have you thought that maybe law enforcements as any other public
institution, represent the community so in overwhelmingly white/latino/black/ populated cities this tends to reflect in the
racial line up in the city council, police department, etc?
In theory it should be like that but that's not always the case. NYC population is 35% Black, yet only 17% NYPD cops are Black. Once, you start going up in rank is pretty much all White. As per wikipedia Article.
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Of 4,639 sergeants, 61% (2,841) were white and 39% (1,798) were minorities. Of 1,742 lieutenants, 76%
(1,323) were white and 24% (419) were minorities. Of 432 captains, 82% (356) were white and 18% (76) were minorities. Of 10 chiefs, 7 were white and 3 were minorities.
The NYC fire department is 95% White.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/nyregi...d=all&_r=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_C...#Personnel
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Are you of those who think that there should be women/minorities in the firefighters, law enforcement corps, army even if there are men/non minority who are more qualified and fit for the job for the sake of diversity?
This is a loaded question and a common conservative talking point.This is a very common argument by the Police and Fire unions because most people are not familiar how police and fire hiring works. I believe in a leveled playing field.
Do you know how most of the hiring is done for most police jobs? I give you a hint, is not by merit or natural ability. Police and firefighter jobs are entry level jobs. No working experience required besides the very minimum possible requirements. Take the NYPD, it is the largest police department in the US(35,000 Police Officers) and they are the gold standard of policing across the nation(FBI is an investigatory agency, they do not do patrol). Many chiefs in the major cities of the US were former NYPD officers.
This is NYPD minimum requirements are:
21 year old
60 college credits 2.0 GPA or 2 years military
No felony, theft, or domestic violence conviction
driver license.
passing psychological and physical test.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/downloads/p...311000.pdf
You take a test, You score high, you get hired. sounds fair right?
The problem comes that Fire departments and police departments tend to be multi generational jobs and nepotism is rampant.They are actually very good jobs. In the NYC tri State area(NJ-NY-CT) is not rare for cops to actually make over 150k a year. If you grew up on a household where you father and other relatives were cops that gives you a tremendous advantage because you already know what's going to be on the test. You did not score higher on the test because your high IQ, you scored high because you knew what was going to be in it. The problem starts when all the people who have relatives on those jobs are all White.
The Games don't stop there, even if a minority scores within the hiring range, he still has to be processed by that department by someone who probably has a vested interest in protecting the status quo. They don't so much as hate minorities but they understand that there's only a finite number of good jobs with Health Insurance, Pension, Overtime available. For Every minority that gets hired, is less of a chance that a relative of his is going to get a job.
NYPD is a relatively easy job for a minority to get because of all the lawsuits that have for the most part leveled the playing field. The test are given often so if you don't do well in that one, you can take it again until you get a good score. Police jobs in the suburbs like Suffolk, Nassau, westchester, Putnam are given like once every 5 years so candidates who have relatives already on those jobs(All who are White) have an edge.
Also, anybody who lives in the suburbs of NYC is eligible to become a NYPD officer but NYC residents are not allowed to even take the test to be hired as a cop in the suburbs.
Therefore, is not about lowering standards at the expense of diversity is about keeping the basic standards artificially low so you can cherry pick who gets hired by giving them help on the test and through out the hiring process. Is all about the select few Gaming the system to provide jobs to their relatives at the exclusion of others. This is a big problem actually that's bankrupting neighboring NYC counties.
Conservatives should be all over this blatant Gaming of the system, instead
they are too busy mentally masturbating about that 1 Black guy a year who gets into the ivy League under affirmative action.
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I lose all my hopes in manhood and our future when I hear men
using the very same victimized speech of feminists changing gender with race and blaming on everybody else for their problems. I got fired because I'm hispanic (not because I was lazy and spent the day watching porn instead of working), I've been stopped by the police because I'm black (not because I was drinking in the street), I was fired because I'm a woman (not
because I was stealing things from the office).It's really sad when (black, hispanic, gay, women, etc) complain that there are not enough of their people in whatever institution.
Nice, shaming language. Thank you for playing.