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Cops: No Snarky Nor Positive Title

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So ignoring the new format....

Watching Oprah's TV show, and the professor from Stanford mentioned the mental health aspect of the killings, and bringing that up with the historical reference of the lynchings.

Made me think- using violence to control someone via trauma and psychology. This whole treatment of black people is simple terrorism. There may not be IEDs, there may not be bombings anymore. But given what happens, and how it plays out, and the fact that it's been well known for centuries- this is terrorism against black people.

That is very sad.

The fact that parents have to have "the cop talk" with their kids so that they survive, this is cops terrorizing the entire black community.

Don't tell me that there are good cops, as if they existed, then the cop talk would not be needed, as the good ones would out weigh the bad ones. Instead, the good ones join into the terrorism.

The institutional terrorism against an entire race by the cops is why they need to go, and we need to start over.
 
Hey did you guys know the 75 year old the cops helped trip and fall in Buffalo was Antifa?
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Paramount has canceled Cops permanently after pulling it off the air.

Now there's a movement to try to cancel Live PD. This week it was learned that an unarmed black man died in custody during a taping of the show. It was ruled a homicide, but no action has been taken as of yet, except that the officers resigned upon the news getting out. Live PD said they destroyed the evidence.
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I don't get why that is on TV. And I bet if one studied the show, you would see the blatant racism in the police system.
 
So on Twitter last night there was a thread of Karens from all over the country who basically went on a massive rant about how they need to defund the police. These threads popped up a LOT and they were not bots. All the White Women from the suburbs were giving their reasons...which then lead to even more of them telling their horror stories of dealing with cops. (the sexual assault ones made me want to riot) It was crazy because if a Trumper or Pro Cop person dared respond to the tweet it was a bloodbath.

Certain TV stations (who shall remain nameless *cough* CNN *cough* MSNBC *cough) keep playing with the canard that this worked for Nixon and that the White Suburbanites are gonna get the vapors at the thought of not having the Boys in Blue running around protecting them from Darky. What they forget is that Cops treat women as bad as they treat minorities.

And the polling numbers that came out today (showing how far Trump's demographic have shifted the wrong way) are proving that most people have more bad to say about cops than good.
 
And I'm a queer. We've never had a good relationship with cops. Knowing they've been firing on gay bars makes me like them even less.
 
alfablue said:
I don't get why that is on TV. And I bet if one studied the show, you would see the blatant racism in the police system.
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I've watched LivePD a few dozen times and I was very, very surprised at their restraint vs. what you might expect to see given the true horror stories we've seen the past few weeks, and well a lot longer than that. I didn't pick up on them singling blacks out, and I was surprised how often they asked a white person to step out of their vehicle. I have to suspect that c.o.'s made it abundantly clear to any officers our there being followed by a crew that they didn't eff up while the cameras were rolling. Because the good behavior was far too prevalent compared to all the horror stories out there.
 
Slap Shot said:
I've watched LivePD a few dozen times and I was very, very surprised at their restraint vs. what you might expect to see given the true horror stories we've seen the past few weeks, and well a lot longer than that. I didn't pick up on them singling blacks out, and I was surprised how often they asked a white person to step out of their vehicle. I have to suspect that c.o.'s made it abundantly clear to any officers our there being followed by a crew that they didn't eff up while the cameras were rolling. Because the good behavior was far too prevalent compared to all the horror stories out there.
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Remember that whites outnumber blacks by about 6:1. So unless there are 6 whites being taken out of their car for every one, it's not balanced.

It's similar to the argument that timmy made- that more whites are shot than blacks- which is technically correct by about 2:1. But it ignores the fact that blacks are 3x more likely to be shot and killed by cops than whites.
 
alfablue said:
Remember that whites outnumber blacks by about 6:1. So unless there are 6 whites being taken out of their car for every one, it's not balanced.

It's similar to the argument that timmy made- that more whites are shot than blacks- which is technically correct by about 2:1. But it ignores the fact that blacks are 3x more likely to be shot and killed by cops than whites.
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6 to 1?!?!?!

isn't the black population 13%? if whites are then 78% that only leaves 9% for asian/indian/hispanic/eskimo/injun/mena :confused:
 
alfablue said:
Remember that whites outnumber blacks by about 6:1. So unless there are 6 whites being taken out of their car for every one, it's not balanced.
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It's closer to 4.5:1 with respect to blacks, about 1.6 for all minorities and I know what I was watching so I don't need lessons from you. I just freaking wrote it's highly likely the pairs of cops tv crews were assigned to were on their best behavior so it may not be a true representation of typcial interactions. But you're wrong about what happens typically on LivePD at least based upon the number of times I watched. If they do pull the show it won't bother me.
 
alfablue said:
Remember that whites outnumber blacks by about 6:1. So unless there are 6 whites being taken out of their car for every one, it's not balanced.
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In my experience the cops on Live PD ask pretty much everyone, regardless of race, to step out of the car. Pretty rare that they don't, iirc, and I've always assumed that this is primarily for purposes of filming the subject. I expect they can't, or don't want to, film anyone actually inside the car, I don't know if for privacy reasons or what. I just don't remember them sticking the camera up to the window and filming inside unless it's the cop searching the car. But once they get the driver out on the street, film away.

Also, the ratio of black to white might depend upon the jurisdiction where the Live PD cameras are. Richland County, South Carolina, is 47% white, 45% black. West Baton Rouge, LA, is almost 40% black. Salinas, CA, is 77% Latino, 14% white.

You can't base it on the US ratio of black to white or Latino to white.
 
Slap Shot said:
I've watched LivePD a few dozen times and I was very, very surprised at their restraint vs. what you might expect to see given the true horror stories we've seen the past few weeks, and well a lot longer than that. I didn't pick up on them singling blacks out, and I was surprised how often they asked a white person to step out of their vehicle. I have to suspect that c.o.'s made it abundantly clear to any officers our there being followed by a crew that they didn't eff up while the cameras were rolling. Because the good behavior was far too prevalent compared to all the horror stories out there.
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I always figured these shows existed for middle and upper-middle class white America to laugh at working class America, whether it's Cleetus trying to flee a DUI arrest or DeShaun getting busted for crack.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I always figured these shows existed for middle and upper-middle class white America to laugh at working class America, whether it's Cleetus trying to flee a DUI arrest or DeShaun getting busted for crack.
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I always thought they were propaganda to pound the message in that the cops are omnipresent. In the original movie Fahrenheit 451 there's a scene where they're watching a vid of firemen catch a group of teens and cutting their long hair with the voiceover "isn't law enforcement fun?" That's what Cops is.

I like the class theory but the problem is only lower class whites watched the show. They were getting off on the authoritarianism of it -- like their religion.
 
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SJHovey said:
In my experience the cops on Live PD ask pretty much everyone, regardless of race, to step out of the car. Pretty rare that they don't, iirc, and I've always assumed that this is primarily for purposes of filming the subject. I expect they can't, or don't want to, film anyone actually inside the car, I don't know if for privacy reasons or what. I just don't remember them sticking the camera up to the window and filming inside unless it's the cop searching the car. But once they get the driver out on the street, film away.

Also, the ratio of black to white might depend upon the jurisdiction where the Live PD cameras are. Richland County, South Carolina, is 47% white, 45% black. West Baton Rouge, LA, is almost 40% black. Salinas, CA, is 77% Latino, 14% white.

You can't base it on the US ratio of black to white or Latino to white.
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It would be interesting if COPS focused on primarily minority communities, wouldn't it? As if they are having more crime....

That's pretty bad, IMHO.
 
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