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> What causes different races to commit crimes at different rates? It's about culture, choices you make and choices that are available to you (in ghetto, you may have no choice). The most memorable photo for me when those discussions appear: https://twitter.com/elijahschaffer/status/127081025725892198...
I didn't want a wishy-washy "this says a lot about society" image macro. I wanted a concrete explanation.
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It's your lucky day for learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol
Downvoters can't handle the truth: modern police evolved from slave patrols. Modern abuses towards African-Americans evolved from traditional abuses towards slaves. Modern police techniques which attack the protesting public evolved from lynch mobs which attacked individual protestors.
How can their function have been to "police" slaves, when policing hat not yet been invented and only evolved from those slave patrols? And how did governments keep order before slavery made the invention of "police" possible?
In any case, what does it matter what it evolved from?
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The police in Portland were never overrun. Over the course of those 100+ nights they maintained discipline, held their secure perimeters, and succeeded in their mission to keep rioters from breaching e.g. the federal courthouse or their station buildings. In contrast, officers at the Capitol were completely overrun, isolated, and brutally beaten by the mob without hope or expectation of rescue. Some have said that wh…
An event that only lasted a couple of hours is so much more dramatic than months long riots with the leadership throwing police line officers under the bus? Sufficiently so that there's literally an epidemic of suicides? I'm not buying it.
amassed violent insurrectionists threatening & overrunning a seated us congress, which you are sworn to protect, & where backup has not arrived, is a genuine horror the likes of which I never expected anyone in my lifetime would have faced.