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TexasTowelie

(117,478 posts)
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 10:43 AM Dec 2020

Black America is over-policed and under-protected

The University of Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs recently released a report detailing the “over-policed and under-protected” experience of residents of north Minneapolis. The report gives extensive evidence — including data and interviews with residents — on the history and dubious future potential of the Minneapolis Police Department to supply safety for all the residents.

When asked to rate their perceptions of “neighborhood safety,” one-third of the respondents said “poor” and nearly half said “fair”; just 20% of respondents rated their neighborhood safety as “good” or “very good.”

Yet even when participants described feeling safe, it was often because they saw their own block as relatively safe or because they took great lengths to ensure their own safety, rather than a positive evaluation of overall neighborhood conditions or policing.

Residents described how they reduced their risk of victimization, including staying at home — especially at night — and avoiding “hot spots” and dangerous people in the community.

Read more: https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/12/07/black-america-is-over-policed-and-under-protected/

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Black America is over-policed and under-protected (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2020 OP
Kickin' with disgust! Faux pas Dec 2020 #1
So true irisblue Dec 2020 #2
always has been llashram Dec 2020 #3

llashram

(6,269 posts)
3. always has been
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 11:03 AM
Dec 2020

always will be. Conservative White Americans(CWA's) and 99% of ALL conservatives fear black Americans with palpable hate that has just grown to 3 shots in the back of an unarmed young black man entering his own house since the first SLAVE landed on these shores.

At 70ish Black American veteran, I did not sacrifice my health by going into harm's way to ever feel good about serving this ungrateful nation that would allow me to be shot down in the streets like a dog or right in front of my children by some racist pig of a human being wasting our precious oxygen...I am sick and goddamn tired of whites and their "fellow travellers" thinking Black Americans are worse than any other goddam race-culture on this planet.

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