[kj] (OT) Police Brutality part 2

[Bette Dillinger]

Milinda, I don't think I expressed myself well enough in my post.  Please accept my olive branch.  I certainly did not mean to imply that latent racism leads to overt or expressed racism.  I apologize if you think I was stating that about you or anyone else.  My point was that we see alot of images of what black people are like, gays are like, women are like, working class men are like, and those images stay with us.  As Andy Warhol said, the more you show an image, the more people will come to believe it is a fact.  I believe he was correct. I know you chose to reject them, but alot of people go along with the program and that type of mindset.

 

Bette
 


From: hollytree1961 at hotmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:44:48 +0100
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Police Brutality part 2



i dont,and i am certain alot of other people do not either,as for the majority of the police,ive made my point on that clearly in an erlier post majority of em are instinutionally racist bastards.....
 
milindafgrant
 


From: bettedillinger at live.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:20:27 -0400
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Police Brutality part 2



Everyone has latent racism.
 


From: hollytree1961 at hotmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:19:43 +0100
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Police Brutality part 2



i just dont want to generalise but the police are institutionally racist,there maybe a few exceptions of those who are not, i am talking about the majority who are racist;(
 
milindafgrant
 


From: gregslawson at msn.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:03:15 -0400
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Police Brutality part 2



It's true that psych factors may be important, but a bigger issue is that the whole "culture" of the police is to get away with abusing people, covering it up, and being sworn to secrecy. There was an excellent book about 20 years ago, called I think "The Code of Silence", by a former US police chief, that detailed all this...
 


Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:40:03 +0000
From: jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Police Brutality part 2






I'm sure there are psychological factors at work in determining their personality types, just like all of us. There isn't anything that *forces* the individual to behave in that fashion, however. There are no doubt a wealth of psychological issues and problems that go into the make-up of a violent policeman- some of which are genuinely worthy of sympathy- but we all know where psychology ends and choice begins. 
 
Jim.

 
From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:29:01 +1000
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Police Brutality part 2









If police brutality is part of a bigger picture, then so is civilian violence.
 
I agree but police brutality is more onerous than civilian brutality – and judges will take this into account in their sentencing– because they are provided enhanced powers of physical intervention (legal rights, training, equipment, back up from thousands of other cops and civilians etc), in return for the responsibility to defend us. Misusing that privilege to do the opposite is especially wrong…and deserves stronger punishment (insofar as we currently favour punishment as opposed to ‘correction’). They are letting us down more than the random idiots because they are the ones we entrust our security to. In a lot of ways we are more vulnerable to their misuse of power than we are to random idiots, we’ve got no real recourse to resist or defend ourselves. They will just escalate the confrontation quicker and harder than we ever can. Some of us have a chance against randoms, no one really has a chance against the police force, right or wrong. 

  

Ever heard a cop describe the police force as the biggest gang in the country? I have. 

  

Most of the people at the G20 conference didn't feel obliged to throw bricks through windows or set fire to building. Anyone who can't manage that should stay at home; they're not needed. 

  

That might be a clue as to why they feel like they do and do what they do. I’m not so much defending violent behaviour, as trying to explain it. There was a study I was reading about recently in New Scientist that said schools that fit a certain profile were more likely to have mass killings. The profile included a cliquey, elitist, non-inclusive atmosphere. Again I’m not blaming that alone for the killings, but it could have played a part. Anti-social acts are caused by anti-social people, and there’s a reason why people are anti-social, society bears some blame for that. Like it bears some of the blame for the systemic problems in our police forces. 

  

  


 





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