Except that it is. The statistics bear it out. Nearly 50% of violent crime is committed by black men. That’s a fact. It’s not a particularly nice fact. It’s not one I like. It is, however, a fact.

What fucking world is being an average, every day good person news? Pull your head out of your ass.

Do you consider the realities of the situation or do you just pop off with what affects you and fuck everything else?

And then watch yourself never get a job again when they figure out it was you. That’s a good route to go.

There is no such thing as a good cop.

No. That’s not the point at all. The point is, what do you want the good cops to do exactly? It’s not like they all sit around at the police locker room and one of the bad ones goes “Man I love shooting me some niggers, eh lads?”

Unions protect the shitty ones, and every cop is a part of a union. This is the flaw in Hamilton Nolan’s utopia.

I see this a lot, and the numbers would tend to bear that out, but very rarely is it also mentioned that violent crime is more often committed by black people. They’re going to have more encounters with police.

No they don’t. More than half of police shootings are of white people.

Yeah, except it might not be racism. You can’t possibly prove that.

Extreme incompetence and the level of guys who get a badge and decide that they’re Bobby Fucking Badass and need to go Lethal Weapon on everybody’s ass.

I believe you are correct. I’ve driven through a ton of “bad neighborhoods” in my city and never once felt any real danger.

They aren’t though. More white people are killed by police annually.

Cops existed before American slavery happened. Jesus Christ.

Yes. Actually they do happen to white people. All the time. More often than they do to black people actually. Statistically speaking that is.

Because we can’t have nuance in this case. Ever. Don’t ask for it. Don’t ask for critical thinking. You’re white, thus racist, and so you can’t possibly know.

They may not be lying, because its not a lie if you believe it, but I know for a fact that people will try to find things that aren’t there if they want to feel like a victim.

Spoken like someone who has spent their entire life being told that white people are bad, want you dead, and are all klansmen or just shy of it.

To be fair, Balch Springs is about equally white and black (though mostly minority in some form or another), and is basically a small neighborhood in and of itself. Also, as has been repeatedly demonstrated, cops often don’t live in the areas they are patrolling (which is a problem), so even if there are distinct…

There is a huge part of me that whenever someone tries to make the automatic judgement in this situation that the kid must have been bad, I wish I had video of all the power tripping traffic cops who aren’t even armed, and still try to act like the biggest swinging dick in these United States.