acecrackshot

As far as officers responding to mental health calls, do you think the police asked for that mission? Nope, they got it when we de-institutionalized the mental ill, starting in the Kennedy Administration and continuing for the next 60 years. Police officers themselves will consistently say they aren't manned-trained-equipped to handle that...but they are given the mission set anyway.

Arado 234

If BLM is a reaction then what caused that movement?

WhistlePig

Police are not trained for that response. Redeployment of resources from traditional police to community responders that more correctly effect the needs of the community is an excellent idea. Having said that, currently they respond and citizens are being killed and that is not justifiable. Here’s the rub: Police would argue, privately of course, that they cannot be properly trained to respond to people in mental crisis as they run the risk of losing their qualified immunity defense if they hurt or kill someone. The “I was never taught how to properly deal with the situation so I killed the victim” is a valid Immunity defense. I don’t care whether they asked for the “mission” or not. If they do it, and do it improperly, they must be held accountable.

Firefighterpilo

A generation of people constantly told they are victims and oppressed, therefore seeing it in every interaction regardless of its true of not. Nothing good comes from this constant narrative. All it accomplishes is making people become bitter and decide not to contribute to society. Would you teach you kids that they are victims and the system is rigged against them? Of course not. All it accomplishes is keeping people down by allowing them to believe they can never get ahead.

55555

BLM is NOT a reaction. Please show me where I said that. I didn’t. You just desperately wanted me to. No, BLM is simply a political arm of the Democrats disguised as a civil rights movement. They hijacked George Floyd’s death and took the opportunity to fashion it into mass rioting. Only fools, or should I say “useful idiots” took the bait on BLM having anything to do with black lives.

WhistlePig

I would say they were good first steps but the work is incomplete. And they VRA only protected covered jurisdictions that demonstrated discrimination and contained laws that appeared to be facially neutral but were racist in intent and effect. And those protections, little as they were, have been gutted by the Robert’s Court. Most of America is not covered by any provision of the VRA. Further, the Fair Housing Act did absolutely nothing to address the vestiges of racial discrimination in housing availability and zoning, particularly dirty industry zoning, and Redlining. When it comes to housing zoning discrimination, I will agree that it may be the one true bipartisan issue we have — both parties have been equally culpable in its creation and perpetuation. There has never been an adequate supply of safely and properly zoned housing in this country for non-whites. Ever. Ghettos, and I use the term in the same historical context as pre-WWII Germany, don’t happen by accident.
Even today, black families know they have to “whitewash” their house if they want to sell it at market value. Shockingly, we learned this month that “whitewashing” can apply to the Appraisal as well. A Jax, FL family had their home appraised 40% lower than surrounding homes. All because there were pictures of their mixed race family on the mantle and African Art on the walls. After “whitewashing”, a fair appraisal was obtained. Needless to say, the bank corrected the error and is investigating.

Arado 234

Really? Where?

buddies8

BLM versus brown shirts, what's the difference in actions.

El Peso

one is completely convinced that they’re right, on the right side of history, and are actually a force for good!

Hedley

The others were Germans who used the same tactics. Pretty good analogy