Wisdom_Lover's Blog

Although much of what you say is true, it is not fair to generalize the whole population of an area based on a majority. Hopefully the presence of the police will become welcomed by those who wish the laws to be enforced and want safety. Crimes are less likely to happen when there is police presence. Hence the reason they are at the suburban schools, as you stated, for safety from the criminal element.

Actually, toungebath, cops have bad PR with blacks, because of a history of unfair treatment of blacks, and the presence of police officers, who, like you, think it is OK to have a negative opinion of all black people, because of higher crime rates in predominantly black neighborhoods.

People do not resort to criminal behavior, just because they are black. A certain percentage of ALL people who live in poverty and desperation, will turn to crime, no matter what color they are. If there is more crime where there are more blacks, it is because more blacks are forced to live sub-standard conditions than other ethnic groups.

Also, I did not say that cops are to blame for the problems in the "black community" only their reputation there. The fact that there IS a "Black" community, and other populations, labeled as separate from the majority culture, is what is to blame for most of societies problems, period.

Until there is one community which cares equally for all of its citizens, these problems will continue...

Actually, cops don't have a long way to go with the blacks in terms of PR. I am tired of hearing about the pity party with blacks. It gets old after awhile. You have to look at the way many blacks look at authority...when you are disrespectful to authority such as police, there will usually be a punishment. I don't mean beating them up either.

Being a female police officer, black males really don't have much respect for a woman in authority. That is part of their society. However, you disrespect me, or act ignorantly, there will be consequences to their actions. Usually resulting in one or more tickets.

If I have a black person telling me that the only reason that I stopped them is because they are black, minding you I work nights so it is hard to tell, they will automatically get a ticket from me. The race card doesn't work on me nor will it ever work on me. I have black friends and they don't need the pity party like many of the black society.

The reason that people think that police have bad PR with blacks is because of people like Mcghee in Milwaukee. He is the most racist person out there so that gets all the publicity with blacks. There are many white people that have bad PR with cops as well. That is because they led the life of crime. Black, white, or other race, you made that choice.

If you want to teach your children that the cops are good guys, then that comes back to parenting. If the parents hate the cops because they were P.O.S. growing up and deserved all the punishment that they got, the cops then did nothing wrong. Unfortunate

i agree with sports fan and tongue bath....and by the way wisdom, tonguebath did not say it was because they are black but i will say this good luck with getting a unified community when so many people like yourself wisdom focus more on excuses for the reasons why people act the way they do instead of making them responsible for their actions and trying to lift them up to want better.....this city is just sickning with all the splitting of the races and blaming people such as the police that want a better place to live....not sayin there are no bad cops because there are but i have seen it time and time again that is someone does something wrong and the cops try to deal with it the cop is wrong....here is a story for you to chew on......i was at a battery where the person that was the aggressor cut himself while hurting someone else...well he had an arterial bleed and was flinging his blood everywhere and began resisting both medical treatment and arrest he began to fight with the police with a massive bleeding arm...which is dangerous to everyone aroun....they finally got him to the ground to arrest him where he then began to spit and try to bite....when they put the spit hood on him he began screaming police abuse and things to that extent so yeah lets take everything a criminal says as truth shall we and please tell me wisdon what is the excuse for that guy...poverty....please.

robinsam--in what ways have police treated you poorly? Just like their are bad police, there are bad people in every profession and not just police. The only police department you see on the news in a negative light is Milwaukee PD. Just like you said, some police are evil to the black community and that role can be reversed as well. However, I completely agree with you that everyone should be treated fairly without color of skin being an issue. I treat everyone fair in my profession, but many of the black community don't like a woman in authority...are we supposed to just take it??? That way we don't have to worry about discrimination or racism???
People need to realize that cops don't just give tickets for the sake of writing them...there has to be a reason there. Not only that, why would we want to add more unnecessary paperwork if we don't have to?

While I respect your attitude toward race Sports Fan, not ALL cops feel that way. I lived in Muskego for a long time and listened to my scanner frequently. While walking my dog one evening (with scanner in hand), I witnessed two police cars pull over a car with 2 black males and throw them violently on the hood of the vehicle. They pulled them over for "suspicion" and detained them for over an hour. Then they gave them an escort out of the city. I have lived in Milwaukee and Muskego, I've pretty much seen it all. Not ALL cops are as upholding to the law as they TRY to portray. Sad to say, but true. While I don't condone the behavior as of lately with Milwaukee's youth, I am absolutely ashamed of the behavior on the part of dirty cops.

cont..is as much biased by the fact that you feel you are "on its side" as the opinion of the people who feel oppressed by it.

stop being so defensive, so that we can work together to solve the reasons why the system doesn't work as well as it could for all people.

but remember it isn't just cops that discriminate...we are held to a higher standard so everything we do is scrutinized. I don't stop on mere "suspicion"...there has to be a probable cause reason to stop. Society would be a much better place if we didn't have people looking at the color of a persons skin, rather look at what is on the inside and from there decide what you think about that person.

sorry...typo above. I wrote "took the osth" it should read OATH.

GITRDONE...I understand your frustration , but think of how many thousands of officers there are and how few are ignorant, arrogant donkeys.
And , isn't it good when we catch these "bad" cops and get them off of the force? I have met and talked with many police officers and I can tell you that there are way more that respect their position and try to be fair than there are the ones that treat being an officer like gaining god status.
So much of this whole racial debate has focused on the bad. Let's try building up the good, so the good stays good. It's like when parents always discipline a child for bad behavior and hardly ever reward the good. You need both.