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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
"But black people kill black people too and nobody talks about..."
Well they do talk about it and I knew that argument would come up as soon as I read the title.
Ironically SW Conservatives are drawing moral equivilance between the police which they admire and gangsters which they despise. Should public defenders of the law not be held to a higher standard than drug dealer muscle?
Also there is racial determinism in that premise. Black people are not victims or citizens killed by criminals, but 'black'. This is to say nothing of the economic and social factors which breed the conditions in which violent crime thrives.
If you want to reduce crime, then better community relations are the way forward. Police murders are a huge problem because (quite understandably) there is a lack of trust in the police.
Well they do talk about it and I knew that argument would come up as soon as I read the title.
Ironically SW Conservatives are drawing moral equivilance between the police which they admire and gangsters which they despise. Should public defenders of the law not be held to a higher standard than drug dealer muscle?
Also there is racial determinism in that premise. Black people are not victims or citizens killed by criminals, but 'black'. This is to say nothing of the economic and social factors which breed the conditions in which violent crime thrives.
If you want to reduce crime, then better community relations are the way forward. Police murders are a huge problem because (quite understandably) there is a lack of trust in the police.