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Capt Michael Greene
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Are the police racist? Well, are people racist? This video is an outstanding example of cherry-picking data to support a preferred answer.
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SGT Edward Wilcox
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Nope. Don't buy it. A video produced by a white woman working for an admittedly conservative group staffed and ran by conservative white people. Not a one of them would know racism if it bit them in the ass.

I don't believe that most police officers are racist. A few are, but a small percentage, overall. I do, however, believe that policing activities and procedures ARE racist. And that is where we have the problems. Get rid of the institutionalized racism in policing, and you go a long way in eliminating the perception that all police are racist.
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SGT Edward Wilcox
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The stop and frisk program in NY City was done primarily on Blacks and Hispanics. Whites were stopped, too, but not at the same percentages.

The concept of DWB is real. I have known blacks who were stopped in neighborhoods they had every right to be in. If I had been driving there, at those times, the police would not have looked at me twice.

Those are just a couple of the most glaring examples.
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SSG Aircraft Pneudraulics Repairer
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Well I wouldn't say all police are racist. It's a silly video because one size does not fit all. Of course there are departments where racist behavior is allowed to persist. Where resentment and stereotypes of Black men are rampant. You can quote all the so called experts you want but in MY personal experience I had a police officer in uniform tell me he doesn't like "all you colored people coming to our neighborhood." When I told him not to call me colored he asked "what do you want me to call you nigger?" I was 16 yrs old. When I was in college we were driving to a party at a another college in some white suburb. We were trailed by the police for several blocks until he pulled us over for not signalling and proceeded to call four other squad cars for backup. They had us there for about 45 minutes maybe an hour with spotlights on our car. Oh and there was that other time we stopped at a convenient store (probably the same year) and about 6-8 cops rushed the car with guns pointed at us because we looked suspicious. They thought it was a robbery. I guess it's common for the driver to get out and leave everybody else in the car when robbing a store. Idiots. So excuse me if I find your video to be regurgitated bullshit. And of course Chicago came up. I mean why would there be crime on the southside with all the jobs, money and opportunity in those neighborhoods. It's baffling.
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PO3 Gary Hadden
PO3 Gary Hadden
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Sir,
As a white police officer, I'm embarrassed by the treatment you received. I have been serving honorably and honestly for 30 years now. I hate hearing about these encounters, but I know they occur. I'm sorry this happened to you! I hope and pray for healing in this nation, but until the bad actors are weeded out, these occurrences will occur. I will do my part to continue to serve my community with honor and call out the idiots who put a black mark on my profession.
God bless
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CMSgt Marcus Falleaf
CMSgt Marcus Falleaf
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Had the same treatment and am not black.
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CMSgt Marcus Falleaf - ok. Relax everyone. Marcus Falleaf gets treated the same so there's nothing to see here.
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