Giuliani Says BLM Is Racist

[PhantomWolf]

The rhetoric is that the police are putting their lives on the line every time they interact with civilians, so incidents where they shoot someone in a nervous panic are tragic but they shouldn't be blamed for it.

The fact is that it is way, way more dangerous to be the civilian they are interacting with.

The question would be, how many civilians are attacked by Police Officers each year? We know that in the US, around 10,00 civilians attack police officers with deadly weapons each year, or a little over one attack on a LEO every hour. So for it to be more dangerous for the Civilians than police, the police would have to shoot at more than 10,000 civilians each year.

Merely saying that the police don't get killed as often is totally ignoring that when these incidents happen, the police tend to have the far better odds to survive the attack than a civilian.

 

[Puppycow]

Another problem with the Giuliani shoulder chip, like lots of police supporters, defending the police creates blinders to the bad apples. It's one reason we can't weed the bad apples out. Any acknowledgement of their existence is seen as disloyalty to the whole.

May be a similar problem with the teacher's unions. You've heard of the "rubber rooms", right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_centers

Reassignment centers are holding facilities for the New York City Department of Education, where more than 600 teachers accused of misconduct have been paid to work full-time doing nothing for months or years at a time while awaiting resolution of their cases.[1] Among teachers they are referred to as rubber rooms.[2] The city has 13 reassignment centers.[3]

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

May be a similar problem with the teacher's unions. You've heard of the "rubber rooms", right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_centers

While it is off topic, I agree there needs to be a way to get rid of bad teachers. There needs to be a compromise between unions protecting every worker no matter what, and actually addressing the problem employees while protecting workers that should be protected.

 

[AdamSK]

Now if Giuliani said that BLM is one sided and seems to consider all cops to be guilty and all blacks shot by cops to be innocenct victims,I would have a great deal of agreement with him. But calling them racist is going way too far.

Unless they also think the same of all whites shot by cops, wouldn't those attitudes be racist?