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Post by chrisbrooks on Mar 5, 2013 10:28:25 GMT -5
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Post by Justin Thyme on Mar 5, 2013 13:41:20 GMT -5
I would like to see a street gang accountability board while y'all are at it.
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Post by JC on Mar 5, 2013 14:56:26 GMT -5
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Post by Police Moderator on Mar 5, 2013 19:47:23 GMT -5
I'll be all for Civilian Review Boards for Law Enforcement when Civilian Review Boards are instituted for the U. S. Congress, Attorneys, Judges, Doctors, Nurses, Electricians, Engineers, Local Elected Officials, Commercial Airline Pilots, Air Traffic Controllers, the Military and the Media (To name a few.)
Don't hold your breath on any of that happening any time soon.
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Post by Police Moderator on Mar 5, 2013 20:07:42 GMT -5
I call BS on this one and I use this one case (There are plenty more) as a prime example. From the reference used in the article from Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness: - Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination— employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.
[/i] Comparing the mistreatment of innocent citizens, based solely on the color of their skin, to the treatment of duly convicted criminals, despite the color of their skin, is the most inane thing I have read in quite some time. Maybe Mr. Brooks' time would be better spent launching task forces or organizing protests against violence in an attempt to reduce the ever escalating senseless murders in the communities he purports to represent. |
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Post by Police Moderator on Mar 5, 2013 21:32:37 GMT -5
I'd further invite Mr. Brooks to post his stuff here, where someone will read it, rather than his current blog.
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Post by biofish on Mar 5, 2013 22:07:05 GMT -5
I would be on board with a civilian review board deciding the fate of officers who make mistakes (judgments from non-peers) if they start up a police review board who decides the fate of the gang members who make mistakes.
My point being, like in the military, you accomplish fairness with peer to peer accountability.
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