Norm Stamper; Dr. Joy DeGruy; KFBK; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly Floyd: "I can't breathe"
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| It's fun to wield power, have guns, a gang, legal protection, medical coverage...to be a cop. |
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"Ninety-nine percent of police make
the other 1% look bad."
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| Three kill as one guards fellow killers (WCCO). |
It can't be a surprise that police repeatedly engage in discrimination and other wrongdoing. And that they keep doing it. After all, nothing is done to stop them, even if they are sent home with pay. It used to be that they were deprived of pay when accused until a perfunctory investigation was carried out.
Now it's a paid vacation. If one officer shoots, every officer must empty his/her gun or be laughed at, jeered, taunted, and ostracized by others on the force.
Read the book Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing by former Police Chief Norm Stamper for an insider's view of the racism, criminality, domestic abuse, and sociopathy involved in American policing.
It's a culture imbued with sadism, a sense of inferiority to fight against, and low education-high testosterone (steroid abuse) companionship.
Police have shown over and over again that they are incapable of policing themselves. They are biased and occasionally throw a minority officer under the bus, showing their racism and awareness of what they are doing.
As Prof. Joy DeGruy reveals, What happens when anyone points out the racism of the dominant group? People rush to caretake and reassure them that they are all right, "one of the good ones," not to be offended.
White privilege benefits us all -- so long as we pass as white. It harms everyone, even if we imagine we are not touched by it. It is the systemic, institutional racism that is the deeper problem, not the individual hate, fear, bias, and mistreatment meted out by average (not rogue) police, even brown and black ones.
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| Breaking Rank (Norm Stamper) |
Read the book Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing by former Police Chief Norm Stamper for an insider's view of the racism, criminality, domestic abuse, and sociopathy involved in American policing.
It's a culture imbued with sadism, a sense of inferiority to fight against, and low education-high testosterone (steroid abuse) companionship.
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| I'm responsible, just for my racist abuses? |
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| There are some murderers with badges in there. |
White privilege benefits us all -- so long as we pass as white. It harms everyone, even if we imagine we are not touched by it. It is the systemic, institutional racism that is the deeper problem, not the individual hate, fear, bias, and mistreatment meted out by average (not rogue) police, even brown and black ones.
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