Here's a dirty little secret or two

[TheKentuckian]

Black police are just as racist against minorities as white cops because the racism is INSTITUTIONAL AND SYSTEMIC (not to mention the worst situation of the black cop showing what side he's on working with a white cop).

Further the "good" cops are just as like to racially profile and/or overstep their authority as the "average" or the "bad apples" because that is how they are trained and expected to behave. A "good" one will do these things as little as the system allows and an average policeman will do it only as much as it makes it easier for him to call it a day.

There are a substantial minority of bad apples in a rotten and worm ridden barrel and throwing in some darker fruit does nothing but produces dark and light colored rotten apples. The idea that a cop of the same race will not be subject to the ingrained prejudice is very simplistic and misses the entire thrust of the problem.

There is cop, there is perp.. and there is nigger perp. If you're not a cop then you quickly find your place from there and it won't be pretty but it could be really fucking ugly.

The only sight less welcome than a cop is black cop.

[imdjh]

1. It's silly to think that cops don't know who and what they are dealing with.

It's almost childish to think that they don't. I say childish, because I can almost hear a teenaged girl on a TV movie chastising her parents for judging her sleezebag boyfriend because he looks like what he is and they don't want her hanging out with the wrong kind of people. Yes, Mark turned out to be a nice guy on Roseanne, in real life he ruined Becky's life.

I have mentioned my misspent youth, but I didn't mention my epiphany. Or should I say one of my epiphanies?

I had crossed the street from my old apartment building and walked to my car. Somehow, I didn't notice the police car, and I still don't know where he was lurking. It was about 3 AM, and as Chris Rock has said, nothing good is going to come of that fact alone. As soon as I started my car, the police car pulled up, and told me to get out of the car. I did. He asked me where I was going. Thinking quickly, which is amazing unto itself considering my condition at the time, I said, "I'm moving my car from a transient space to a leased space. I was on a private lot and figured if I didn't intend to leave the lot, they couldn't get me for DWI. They bought that, I guess. They asked to see my license. He looked at my license and asked me if I had any warrants. He called me by my first name.

It was then that I knew I was scraping bottom. I knew that when the cop calls you by your first name, you're screwed. You're a suspect. You're dirt. He ran my number and I actually did have a warrant that I was unaware of, but should have been aware of. I had an unpaid infraction fine. They handcuffed me and took me to the police station. So far, I'm not too upset. Then they searched me. Then they handcuffed me to the bench while I was waiting for some money to arrive.

The bottom line is that they called it. They knew who and what they were dealing with before they even got out of the car. I'm still amazed that they bought the moving the car story, especially when I was obviously equipped for a traveling party.

[MrScorpio]

2. Cops only come in one color...

Blue

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. Amen -

Ever read "Blue Blood"?

I had no idea why I even decided to read it, but I was very glad I did. It's quite a story, and it's wonderfully written:

http://tinyurl.com/l344zj

[Mythsaje]

3. I see the "cop haters" are at it again...

Do I need to add a sarcasm tag?

Probably.

[fishbulb703]

5. nice rascism nt

[havocmom]

6. Had a rather bad experience with a Hispanic cop

A black cop responding to the call was REALLY not happy with the way other cop handled things, He gave me his card with other phone numbers hand written on it and suggested I file a complaint and he would back me up.

Moral: there are good cops, bad cops, and cops just trying to get out alive. And they come in all ethnic varieties.