Double standards in policing
Many have noted, correctly, that there is a clear double standard in how the police treated the right-wing protesters at the Capitol on Wednesday and how they treated Black Lives Matter demonstrators this summer. This is indeed a huge problem and I hope to comment further on it soon. Here I simply want to point out a second double standard that has not to my knowledge received attention: the quick, forceful response of legislators to the breakdown of law and order at the Capitol, compared to the generally dilatory efforts at police reform this summer.
Police reform advocates should press the Democrats hard to move police reform legislation quickly in the new Congress. As things stand now, there are two standards for police reform. A strict no-nonsense standard applies when Congress is threatened, a second much more forgiving standard applies when ordinary black folks (and, for that matter, ordinary white folks) are threatened by poor policing.
what’s an interesting perspective. I had never really thought of it that way, I had noticed however that whenever the crime rate would go up that the price of Bitcoin would also deflate, inflate $$$$. is the recent rising price of Bitcoin because of increased crime rate? no, but I think that people expect more crime when the Democrats are in control. does this mean that an investment in Bitcoin is an investment in crime? No, but I think that Bitcoin is a good indicator of present criminality prevalence or expected crimes.
I am not sure that legislators response was forceful. To me that would imply actions, not just words.
One cop, three protesters dead. I think that is about par for a BLM riot.
well, when you are outnumbered by a lot and do not have any hope of meaningful resistance, it’s probably a little smarter to to try to keep things as calm and friendly as you can. or run if you can’t.
there is always a double standard when the “victim” is us versus when the victim is them.
but the “police problem” here was not police racism but the fact that the power that controls the police prevented any prior organization or manpower to effectively resist a mob they knew was coming. They did this for their own political purposes..
meanwhie it is rather stupid of the left to be calling for machine guns in order to enforce racial equality.