Comment by richardlblair
2 years ago
"You'd just call the police"
This is funny because you'd be hard pressed to find someone from a low income neighborhood calling the police.
2 years ago
"You'd just call the police"
This is funny because you'd be hard pressed to find someone from a low income neighborhood calling the police.
Not to mention, easy to find some killed by the very police they themselves called.
Aderrien Murry, 11, called 911 for help at his home in Indianola, Miss., last weekend. But after police arrived, an officer shot him in the chest. The boy is recovering, but his family is asking for answers — and they want the officer involved to be fired.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/26/1178398395/mississippi-11-yea...
A Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 27-year-old woman who had called 911 to report that she was under attack by a former boyfriend, police officials and lawyers for the victim’s family said on Thursday. Records show the deputy had killed another person in similar circumstances three years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/21/los-angeles-...
And this is just 2 random cases from 2023
Yeah, stories like that would make you not want to call the police all right.
You clearly have no experience with what you're talking about.
In the low income neighborhoods near me, in which my sister lives (of her own free will, despite other options) due to chronic cognitive issues, the police are visiting constantly. People in low income neighborhoods call the police all the time. Surveys show that most low income people in dangerous neighborhoods are in favor of more, better policing, not less.
This is just false