Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

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Goodbye forever 30 1, 1:28pm

@Nisse_Hult "...unsuitable [police] should be put in prison for their... misconduct." They were and are, but now all officers have to face the possibility of an angry mob if they ever have to discharge their weapon.

"The police is there to stop crime and apprehend criminals..." They no longer can do this effectively and so the inner city murder rates are soaring. The murder rate statistics are not propaganda left or right. Pretending that they do not exist is to ignore the plight of the black community. who are disproportionately the victims of violent crime.

"How is holding the police accountable..." This is the true spin here! The police were already accountable, but now because of our witchhunt, they cannot effectively police. We now drag every officer who shoots a black man through the court of public opinion. So fear keeps the police out of those neighborhoods and people die. If it is insane to despise murder and anything that increases it then certify me.

"..."cognitive dissonance"..." Okay? I believe some murders to be committed by police. I believe some of those police get away with the crime. I believe that these are a small number of instances and improving with surveillance technology and time. I believe we can, as some have suggested, drag more police officers in for additional review. I believe this would have a negligible effect on police misconduct and locate few problem individuals. I believe this would have a large negative result in police effectiveness. I believe that lower police effectiveness will lead to higher violent crime rates. I believe that this would not be a net benefit to society. I believe this problem is avoidable through more surveillance of the police themselves (Body Cameras), taser distribution, and greater training. I, therefore, will not drag more police officers in for additional review or make a commotion when others don't.

The evidence you deny: To date, not a single officer, who would not have been convicted before, has been convicted for a race-based shooting. The number of police interactions in predominantly black neighborhoods has gone down. The murder rate in black neighborhoods has increased by large percentages. The victims of these increases are predominantly black and so are their killers.

My conclusion is that you assume "cognitive dissonance" because you really don't understand what that means. Like many people, you can only define a concept and cannot comprehend it. You have taken so many shots at Americas so let me send one your way. If you are an indication critical thinking is obviously not a strong Swedish trait. Goodbye and have a nice day.