Do not get me wrong here but if I were a police officer and I knew that black people commit in general more crimes given their percentages I would be way more careful and probably also biased which of course is bad as a cop but also kind of understandable in a human view. The same with black people racting to all the incarceration rates would act biased and more hostile to the police.
I highly think even though there are racist cops out there that this is not the majority and media of course tries to escalate it to get more views, clicks reaction. I firmly beleive that we should give black peoplel who often live in poor neighborhoods a future. Invest in education, try to establish companies in these regions etc but fot that also to happen the police need to cut down the crime rate in these areas. It is a very difficult topic in my opinion and much more compliated than cops killing black people because their are racist like some make it out to be
While I understand the sentiment, the fact is racial profiling is both illegal and unconstitutional. America and it's ideals are designed to protect against discrimination of the individual. It protects all American's civil liberties and is part of what actually makes our country great.
Programs such as "Stop & Frisk"
Or Japanese Internment camps are the result of such profiling and fortunately our constitution guards against such practices.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
It has been decided by the supreme court that "probable cause" does not include ethnicity and for good reason. It is a factor that an individual has no control over and the idea of making an individual a suspect simply for being born is a violation of the core of American values. Generally speaking, any such bias in law enforcement or the justice system are inherently illegal, unconstitutional, and un-American. America isn't a great country because our ideals are easy to achieve. We are a great country because we possess these ideals and protects to begin with and our goal should always be to strive to the preservation of them as it greats opportunity, freedom, and forward motion in society.
I also do not believe the majority of police are racist, however the overall system does skew to the detriment of the poor, those not well connected, or deemed lower in status of society. At the end of the day human beings still run the system and with so many moving parts there is always opportunity for bias to creep in. However there is an inherent issue with saying "invest in education" or any number of other claims to absolve this.
From a historical sense black communities have typically been red-lined into race specific neighborhoods. From a social context this achieved the goal of segregation, however as we think of this in a generational sense, freed slaves were forced to settle into predominantly black neighborhoods. Freed slaves were often freed with little if any wealth at all, many had no education or ability to read and write. As such economically, black americans even after slavery were locked into a life of perpetual poverty. Even if they managed to gain an education, and purchase a home, they were often in poorer neighborhood with little to no public services. With low wages there was little tax to build schools or hospitals. More of freed slave education:
https://www.ncpedia.org/education/freed-peoples
The fight against "separate but equal" was entirely about this. By separating along racial lines it doomed a race with no wealth or education to the same conditions with little opportunity for vertical climb.
Fast forward to present day, a large percentage of black americans still live in similar neighborhoods or regions where their free great great grandparents lived. And while some migration did occur, black americans were often forced to relocate into black designated neighborhoods. Now often we hear about how Asian Americans faced similar odds however this is not entirely true and many reported during the age of segregation many asian americans were allowed to use white only services. There's more thorough information here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...started-praising-them/?utm_term=.c961dc7fe0b5
Anyway, continuing with the issue of education and investment. You have these neighborhoods with law aggregate wealth, lower tax income, and in addition the issue of "white flight". Which from an economic standpoint removes the wealthy average families from a community resulting in reduced tax revenue. Thus the investment in education cannot simply come from within the community due to the reduced wealth. Where do the funds for investment in communities come from? Well now we have the debates on reduced taxes, "entitlements" etc. Which are designed as protections for all Americans regardless of wealth. While I understand the unsustainable aspect of it, the fact remains that the alternative is to simply not invest. We further have issues such as private school vouchers (which I personally support) however they also drain the public schools of needed tax revenue from those wealthy enough to pay taxes. There is no cheap, easy, or fast fix to this in a world where everyone has different needs. Its easy to say "throw money" at the problem whether it is in the form of public defenders or education or any other services.
However when it comes time to vote the middle class and upper class which is most affected by the tax regulations always leans to reducing their personal taxes at the expense of those services. And that is understandable, however it only worsens the issue in the long run. The only way this could be resolved would be for American to collectively recognize the issues and consciously take on the burden of investing in the poor and disadvantaged of America, both black and white or whatever.
