I got to give you some numbers dude, but first let me tell you, your pops may have been a cop, but I grew up at the shop, night shift at 6 to 8 years old? I'm spending the night at the PD or the FD. I was in that place at least twice a week for all my years in MS, and in the cop car at least 5 times a week.
But for now lets fun with numbers! All numbers come from the Census bureau and the Attorney Generals office.
in Fergson you are almost twice as likely to be carrying illegal contraband on your person if you are white (1 out of 3 stops) than if you are black (1 out of 5 stops)
Black people are stopped by a ratio of 20 to 1 to white people.
The city is 60% black and 40% white.
So even though the city is about 50/50 in terms of racial distribution Black people are stopped by a ratio of 20 to 1, despite the fact that white people are more likely to be in the possession of illegal contraband.
I have watched as a black person was talking to his buddy at the gas station get thrown against the wall, had his junk grabed, I.D ran, Tags ran, and his car surched, all for making the mistake of talking to his buddy through the window of his car (cop thought it was a drug deal). Needless to say that caused him to be late for work.
I have never been late to work because I was talking to a person at a gas station, and a cop thought it was a drug deal.
you haven't either, and neither of us will.
The demo with the highest % of drug use is white teens, and those white teens aint buying their drugs from black guys their buying them from other white guys.
Why don't the police, police wealthy neighborhoods the way they police minority neighborhoods? Cause the Chief, the Captain, the Mayor, and the drug war would be over in a month, ya see the wealthy make compaign conturbutions, among other things that give them clout, and they'll be damned if any of their angels are gonna spend a day in the kilnker.
You and me have known people who have driven around with feloneys for years and never got poped, and the last thing you would call them is a thug. I have Known way to many good (black) people who have had their life wrunied ( with a feloney you lose acces to pale grants/jobs are limited to temp work) by a stupid feloney charge, and watched well to do white people get off scot free.
Here's the truth. You are going to be asked to drop a DUI, or a ticket, or a possession charge, by a buddy on the force or one of your superiors, some times that request will come all the way from the mayor, and you will do it, and 95% chance the Perp will be well to do and white.
You will never surch the car of the Quarterback of the JC highschool team who is talking to his cheer leader girlfriend at the gas station, and if you do, and find something, You will get more pressure than you can possibly imagine to drop it.
You will be in court every week, AND I DO MEAN EVERY WEEK. You will see with your own eyes the disparity in sentencing, you will watch white folks get way lighter sentinceing than black folks. You will watch the rich get lighter sentencing than the poor.
And here's the thing, you and your buddies will have to come up with a way to justify that phenomenon and lighten your conscience.
You will do that by constantly dehumanizing the minorities that are the working/poor/class.
You will call them shitbirds, lowlifes, assume their on wealfare or unemployed ( pre ression numbers miiority employment/wealfare numbers were the same for white people)
You seem well on your way to cementing that mentality so far.
You will never be on the right side of a picket line.
You are muscle for the bosses as if they don't already have enough.