oddfuture t1_iz6a0oj wrote
Reply to comment by NetQuarterLatte in Adams says mental illness leads to crime by DrogDrill
Interesting of you to highlight that in your post and then not include this from the paper's abstract: "larger police forces make more arrests for low-level “quality-of-life” offenses, with effects that imply a disproportionate burden for Black Americans."
NetQuarterLatte t1_iz6cyqv wrote
Like we all know that assigning a full white police force to police a black community is not a good recipe.
That's why it's important when cops represent the demographics of the communities they serve. This used to be what the progressive agenda advocated for.
But now we have this new brand of "progressiveness" that just want to defund the police or even go against police training to reduce brutality.
Evening_Presence_927 t1_iz7407f wrote
> But now we have this new brand of "progressiveness" that just want to defund the police or even go against police training to reduce brutality.
[citation needed]
NetQuarterLatte t1_iz7elkx wrote
For example, AOC voting against the Invest to Protect Act that proposed funding for de-escalation training for police departments.
Evening_Presence_927 t1_iz7j0ye wrote
Show me the exact contents of that bill.
NetQuarterLatte t1_iz7rfkk wrote
Just click the “H. R. 6448” link in the vote page
oddfuture t1_iz6e63i wrote
Your comment is reductive and does not address the point I raised. The paper does not make any mention of representation within police forces.
NetQuarterLatte t1_iz6ieac wrote
They do mention the issues of increasing policing in cities with large Black populations in the south and the mid-west.
Maybe they didn't mention anything about the representation of the police force explicitly (and perhaps will be a subject of follow up studies), but I think you know how the police force in those regions look like.
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