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Again, the types of crimes that Ferguson PD ticketed weren't conducive to many violations that older whites, in particularly would commit. Consider the white population in Ferguson being roughly around 26%, ( given the current demographic trends from a census taken 5 years ago) there just isn't...

It's possible if there were evidence of Officer Slager being a racist. So yes, it would be a possibility . Yet you are entertaining the possibility with what evidence that he is? And if you did have evidence of him being a racist, how does this relate to an officer in some other random city...

I'm just going by what an eyewitness said, as follows: ( emphasis mine) From link excerpt: eyewitness to the shooting, Feidin Santana, recorded video of the incident on his phone.[25] The video was subsequently shared with Scott's family through an activist of Black Lives Matter, and later with...

Yeah , me too .

I included the possibility of an encounter because there may have been one. The taser is seen falling to the ground in the video. You can't say definitely that there wasn't an encounter with the taser. I also said it was a moot point, as in, it doesn't matter that there was an altercation...

I've commented and criticized the police officer in the South Carolina incident, Funny, everything you post makes the effort to put law enforcement in the worst possible light.

They're not the preferred target. Munipalities are mostly interested in having the fine paid. Cities like Ferguson weren't able to obtain a lot of the money from the tickets they wrote against mostly lower income minorities. ( the DOJ report even makes note of this) Cities would much rather...

Actually it brought to light a couple of things I wasn't clear on by looking at certain '' biased' sites. It help explain the white flight phenomenon which happened in Ferguson and how the older white population wouldn't be committing most of the crimes that the police were enforcing with more...

What part of- no other journalist inquired about Ferguson's crime/ arrest rate going back to 2001- do you not understand? Other journalists haven't looked at this and your telling me to seek out other journalists? Regarding the interpretation of the statistics? Exactly...The DOJ interprets it...

Btw, criticism of me for using a 'bias news source, while at the same time using a DOJ report compiled with the help of a integrity compromised civil rights division, the irony isn't lost on me.

Forget about what you think about Vdare. Do you dispute any of the statistics I posted ? I didn't say they were all made up . In fact I said in some instances, the truth lies in the middle of both sides. I will say discrimination and racism can occur in police departments, but it would be a...

You said seek the truth. I gave some information that was dismissed because of what you believe. The Ferguson police dept isn't in any financial position to defend themselves from the accusations heaped on them from the DOJ. You ought to know that allegations against cities can't be defended...

Just because they interviewed a lot of people who don't like the police, doesn't mean they're correct. They could be lieing for a number of reasons.( See some of the witnesses in the Michael Brown shooting.) You don't even know what the other side of the story was with many 'accounts' in the...

It is political if the DOJ went into Ferguson with the mindset that officers discriminate against them. And then use a few racial texts and a municipality's desire to add revenue as proof positive that they were discriminated against because of being black.

Justifiable because in most cases it is clear cut. Sometimes there are questionable incidents. we've seen not prosecuted or they have been acquitted. We've also seen officers, like one of the videos in a previous post, get kicked off the force because of a stupid decision. No one is disputing...

Yes the dash cam video taped the initial chase, but didn't pickup the possible initial altercation with the taser. Neither did the cell phone video. Again, it doesn't justify shooting him, because he was running away, and all the bullet wounds were from the back. ( and not from very close range)...

It's unclear if the man INITIALLY went for his taser, so that part might have been true or false.( a moot point because the threat was over with.) From the video, he clearly was not shooting in self defense because the individual was running away and the threat was over. He definitely lied about...

Article excerpt: San Francisco Police spokesman Albie Esparza says the department supports the district attorney's examination, but disputes any suggestion that the police force of 2,100 sworn officers may suffer from systemic racism. "This was an isolated incident," Esparza said. "To say it's...

An incident which has been universally condemned by everyone. A rare incident involving a cop shooting an unarmed individual in the back. It doesn't happen much. With this particular incident, the officer was arrested and charged with murder in less than a week.

It's a different matter, in the context that they exist . Again,out 2100 officers. There hasn't been any evidence correlating the officers who wrote the texts and incidents of racism in their police work. The article didn't even divulge the race of all 14 officers. ( only two) A police dept...