Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent dividesPosted in Articles, Economics, Law, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2015-01-03 22:22Z by Steven |
Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides
Salon
2015-01-02
Why diverse police forces can’t seem to trump the economics of racism, or the twisted politics of white resentment
Nearly two decades before last month’s murders of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu by a black man, the murder of a black NYPD officer, Charles Davis, anticipated claims we’re hearing that police-community problems aren’t really “black and white” and the only color that really counts is blue.
Yet the problems do remain “black and white” for reasons of economic exploitation and isolation that run deeper than race itself and that are gathering force, despite rising numbers of white/Asian and white/Hispanic marriages and of multiracial children, even in the families of police officers themselves. Unless we can face the reasons why more “diversity” in police ranks is a far-from-sufficient condition of justice, American society will remain more racist than many others, and thereby hangs my tale…
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