Michael Davis: Without A Doubt

Michael Davis

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  1. Police are upset that the actions of a small percentage of their total number are being portrayed as the norm, and many people unwilling to look at the facts are assuming that all police act like the worst of them, solely because they are all show on the news.

    And as a result, people are assuming a confrontational stature when seeing police, assuming that the police will act violently. This often causes overreaction on the part of the police, who feel they much react in kind, or even pre-emptively, by people who they believe will react to them negatively, even violently.

    Sucks when that happens, don’t it?

    • SAMURAI36 says:

      @Vinnie:

      Just curious:

      What are you calling a “small percentage”? I’d like an actual number to that, please. A ball park figure will do.

      Because as Mr. Davis has outlined here, this happens far too often, in virtually every major city across America, for YEARS.

      These aren’t isolated incidents that are happening. It’s just that the information age that we now live in is bringing this to the forefront.

      • mike weber says:

        Actually, i think Vinnie is right – your comment that

        It’s just that the information age that we now live in is bringing this to the forefront.

        is, perhaps, back-to-front.

        Combined with the “if it bleeds it leads”attitude of commercial news media that have to get viewers to look or readers to read so that they can sell them to the advertisers, the relatively small number of violent cases is over-emphasised.

        Yes, even one police killing that appears to be racist/political/whatever is too many – but how many of the literally thousands of cases that we know happen every day, of cops helping little old ladies across the street, risking their lives to stop crime, working with kids in the community, etc. get reported?

        The fact that these cases are being reported so widely and loudly is an indication to those who know how the news media work that they are exceptions, rather than the rule.

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        And, yes, i know enough about police culture to know the way it skews, and the distrust of “the other” it engenders – and i know that in many cops “the other” is anyone who doesn’t carry a badge, no matter what their race, ethnicity or economic status may be.

  2. SAMURAI36 says:

    @Mike:

    “but how many of the literally thousands of cases that we know happen every day, of cops helping little old ladies across the street, risking their lives to stop crime, working with kids in the community, etc. get reported?”

    –So, police want cookies or gold stars for doing their jobs? Sorry, but that’s not how the world works. But in that regard, the way the world DOES work, is they do get rewarded for doing their jobs: it’s called pensions, vacations, promotions, etc. Just like the rest of us.

    However, what they also receive those same rewards for, is when they kill Black men. They not only get acquitted, but they also get paid time off, which equates to a vacation.

    That smacks of corruption that goes far beyond the individual cop, and more to the institutional.

    “The fact that these cases are being reported so widely and loudly is an indication to those who know how the news media work that they are exceptions, rather than the rule.”

    –Uhmmm, no. the fact that they are being reported so widely NOW, is an indication that people are actually starting to take the issue seriously, as opposed to decades ago, when police brutality and corruption in urban areas was so common place, that people turned a blind eye to it.

    But I love (re: sarcasm) your justification mentality here. Now all of a sudden, the cops are the victims? Only in Amerikkka, does someone kill another human being for no justifiable reason, and we are expected to feel sorry for the killer.

    So yeah, good luck with that.