The Stop: Racial profiling of drivers leaves legacy of anger and fear

I watched a documentary that followed such police traffic stops in Milwaukee. Black crime is rampant there and the rationale for these stops is to remind them that the police are ever present and watching them. It is more a form of intimidation than harassment, and few arrests are ever made. The cops do stay within (barely) legal grounds when doing this. The blacks say this is normal and many report being stopped several times for what they consider petty reasons. It's all part of being black in a high crime area where most of the crimes are committed by blacks against other blacks. Of course the program is intended to reduce crime in those neighborhoods. Absent this intrusive police presence crime would surely increase.

 

THE PEACE (SHALOM) of JESUS takes away all fear in any worldly circumstance, and any 'anger' that is unjustified. HE gives/ PROVIDES a way if any 'anger' is righteous (not wicked nor fleshly).

JESUS TOLD US ALL AHEAD OF TIME - IF you follow ME, you will suffer much persecution . (no matter what color, race, etc)
Don't COMPLAIN about this. REJOICE IN THIS JESUS SAYS ! I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD !

 

Make sure you do your research before accusing people of racism.
According to the FBI’s uniform crime-reporting data for 2016, 90.1 percent of black victims of homicide were killed by other blacks, while 83.5 percent of whites were killed by other whites.
https://www.theroot.com/why-we-never-talk-about-black-on-black-crime-an-answer-1819092337

 

Why does it seem you are promoting or stirring up racism
instead of simply seeking God's justice ?
The same as all of us in Christ Jesus "DO"/ living HIS WAY, as HIS WORD directs and as HIS SPIRIT directs in line always with HIS WORD ?

 

Oh sure, but it's not people on a Christian forum who posts nothing but accusations of racism multiple times a day?

 

This news story doesn't surprise me at all, to be honest. This is America, after all, and this country does have a long established legacy of racism and discrimination against Black people and other minorities. I know you will find this information from the Arizona ACLU valuable: Driving While Black or Brown. This information occasionally circulates through some of the NDN social circles I'm in.

It's not my intention to derail your thread and divert from the importance of addressing the ongoing injustice of Black people being targeted by police. I would, however, like to comment how Native Americans are once again left out of the discussion of being targeted by the police too. I would think that if the police brutality against the Native Americans at Standing Rock last year gained the attention of the United Nations and Anmesty International that it would also gain the attention of the general American public. African-Americans and Native Americans share a similar plight and history of being racially discriminated against in this country. I stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter just as I stand with Native Lives Matter, Idle No More, and the American Indian Movement. I hope it's okay for me to share the following articles. I think they're in correlation with the article in your OP.

Native Americans Get Shot By Cops at an Astonishing Rate

Native Americans most likely ethnic group to be killed by police

Police Violence Against Native Americans Goes Far Beyond Standing Rock

Native Lives Matter: The Overlooked Police Brutality Against Native Americans

 

Free accusations of racism, sexism, etc. is a method of obtain and then securing power for post-modernists.

 

They are not stirring up racism .
IF what you posted about their actions is true,
they are practicing racism, NOT stirring it up.

In this thread you started, you ARE stirring it up, AND practicing it, it seems.

Why not settle down to doing things GOD'S WAY as HIS WORD SAYS.?

 

It seems that the MeToo people have learned this recently. It's the "new BLM", and the current media darling.

 

Is that like "fake news" ?

 

If I may weigh in, with all due respect and with no intent to debate or deride anyone in this thread. Speaking from 26 years of personal experience, I have been accused of being racist by some white people many times during my years of involvement in Native American social and political activism. But those accusations were never true nor fair and they were never substantiated when challenged. I came to realize a few months after I became involved in NDN activism that the accusation of being racist, as well as the accusation of spreading hate and white guilt, were nothing but fear tactics and attempts to silence me from speaking out against racial and social injustice against Native Americans. I have been yelled at, spit upon, and physically threatened by the same people who accused me of being racist. The point I'm trying to make in my post here is (1) free accusations of racism, as you put it, goes both ways in the realm of addressing racism, and (2) being a social activist, particularly when it comes to social justice for minorities, can be a very dangerous occupation. It takes true grit and a wholehearted committment to stay involved in for even a short amount of time, let alone 26 years.

I'm not going to personally address SummerMadness because of what threads he posts or what he writes in his posts because we're only supposed to address the content of the post and not the poster.

I just wanted to relay my own experience as a social activist because I have 26 years worth of experience to share. I don't want to debate in this thread or be drawn into an argument.

 

I really doubt that to be the case. Sure, the cops may think that's how it works, but I question their assessment. If few arrests are made, then they're essentially stopping and harassing innocent people. That's a great way to erode the trust and support they need from the community in order to do their jobs, and it's exactly the sort of thing I was referring to in another thread when I said that it's easy to develop tunnel vision and do things that seem productive in the short term, but that are actually counterproductive when viewed holistically.

 

Well, about that...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAIegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw19t-MtCtG_A6V-R6L1QDO6

Last time I remember an actual study on the topic showed that blacks actually violate traffic laws more often. Not saying that's the cause, but before we start shouting racist at everyone...It would be important to find out if one group does break the law more often than others.

 

About the only people complaining about this are the drivers and passengers who are "out and about" in high crime areas at all hours of the night (when most of the crime goes down). Their parents are strangely silent on the matter (they are also the ones who call the police for help most often).

 

IOW, law-abiding citizens who happen to live (probably because they can't afford better) in a high-crime area.

Your disregard of constitutional rights is noted.

So now they're mostly children? Where do you get that from?

 

The Milwaukee report only concerned stops in high crime areas of the black communities. The purpose is to reduce crime in those areas.

If whites in other cities are found to have contraband twice as often as blacks or Latinos then it follows that those whites are arrested at twice the rate of the minorities.

Regarding 'illegal' stops. Anyone who doesn't want to get stopped drives very carefully. Therefore the cops have to be very creative in their reason for stopping people. They have many tricks. A favorite is to pull someone over because their "tail light is out". As they approach the car they tap on the tail light and it magically comes on. But 'while they're there' they engage the occupants. If they 'sense' something 'suspicious' they are 'justified' in going further which may include searching the occupants and the vehicle. All nice and legal like.