america has been waking up to the way
police specifically
target black people and now some los
angeles police officers are facing the
consequences
state attorney general javier barcera
has revoked access to records generated
by the lapd
for the cal gang database lapd chief
michael bohr withdrew from that program
after an internal audit uncovered
significant misuse of the gang tracking
tool criminal charges have been filed
against three officers accused of
falsifying records
the department believes those people
that officers stopped were labeled as
gang members or gang associates
more than a dozen officers are still
under investigation
holy [ __ ] cops in the lapd
have been charged with putting innocent
people into a gang
database and the reason they allegedly
did it
is that the officers performance reviews
were based partly
on how many gang members they dealt with
each day so to make their bosses happy
they just said
everyone they stopped was in a gang and
this is basically the equivalent of
putting your fitbit on your dog to get
your steps in
except instead of cheating yourself
you're cheating innocent people's
ability to get jobs or housing and
undermining community trust in law
enforcement
and you don't think about this but this
is bad news for the gangs too
i mean think about those gangs they
thought their membership was way higher
than it was
recruitment is through the roof guys now
we can finally
afford that pool table
and you see this is one of the biggest
problems with policing in america
police are incentivized to create
criminals and crime
because they get paid if they do if you
pay them more if there's more crime
they want to create more crime and more
criminals but if they lived in a system
where they were trying to just protect
and serve they wouldn't need to do this
and this is the reality of being black
in america it's almost impossible
not to get tangled up with the legal
system in some way at some point
in your life and a new story out of
michigan
shows how it can even happen to children
a michigan teenager reportedly had her
probation revoked after she failed to
complete
online coursework for school the 15 year
old only identified as grace is now in a
juvenile detention center
propublica reports she has been there
for over a month and was originally
sentenced to probation for stealing and
fighting with her mother
the judge in her ruling said this wasn't
punishment this was a way that she
thought
oakland county could best help this girl
this student was placed
in detention on may 14th
she remains there today this is truly
one of the most [ __ ] up stories
i have ever seen a 15 year old
steals something at school gets put on
probation
and now months later during the pandemic
she gets arrested and locked up because
she didn't do her homework
online i mean it's crystal clear at this
point that this system is set up
to punish people rather than help them
because
i don't know about you but when i was in
school
kids didn't get arrested for stealing
like when i was in the seventh grade
darlington machila stole a game boy from
thiessen pele
but the school didn't call the police
the teachers just made us hold a fake
trial in the classroom to see who was
guilty
and then once we reached the verdict as
kids we decided
that the punishment was death now look
in hindsight
that was a little extreme especially
considering that i was the one who
actually stole the game boy but the
point is we handled it internally
as a school no need for police if you
ask me
the root cause of all of this is that in
america
black children are not seen as children
whether it's a 15 year old girl in
michigan
or tamir rice in cleveland american
society acts like black people don't
have children
they just give birth to smaller black
adults who are born criminals
so look it's clear that as much progress
has been made recently
there's still a very long way to go in
this country
and it doesn't help that the guy at the
very top is still
very much in denial president trump
attempting to shift the focus once again
he now says when it comes to police
shootings of black americans
white people have it worse why are
african-americans still dying at the
hands of law enforcement in this country
and so are white people so are white
people
what a terrible question to ask so are
white people
more white people by the way more white
people
okay okay setting aside the fact that
black people are disproportionately
stopped arrested and killed by the
police
what is trump's argument here because
this reporter was like
cops are killing a lot of black people
and trump's response was
no you idiot they're killing everybody
these cups are lunatics blacks whites
browns
all lives don't matter i mean it
actually almost sounds like trump
is one step away from defunding the
police because of how they treat white
people
and you know what i i don't agree with
his logic but if it gets us to
meaningful police reform
i'll take it i call it defund
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