Comments on: More circling of the wagons http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/ African-American culture, news commentary, politics Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:11:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Duane http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4528 Duane Thu, 31 May 2007 05:26:26 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4528 <em>Death. Spiral.</em> What else could be added to that? So true and unfortunate. Death. Spiral.

What else could be added to that?

So true and unfortunate.

]]> By: DarkStar http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4527 DarkStar Thu, 31 May 2007 03:34:29 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4527 Check out the idea of "deadly embrace" or the "death spiral." Police don't trust residents. Residents don't trust police because of some bad policing so they are slow to work with the police. Police respond to residents by not providing their best service. Residents respond to police by complaining more about what they don't do compared to other areas. Death. Spiral. Check out the idea of “deadly embrace” or the “death spiral.”

Police don’t trust residents.

Residents don’t trust police because of some bad policing so they are slow to work with the police.

Police respond to residents by not providing their best service.

Residents respond to police by complaining more about what they don’t do compared to other areas.

Death. Spiral.

]]> By: Saudia http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4526 Saudia Wed, 30 May 2007 16:00:30 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4526 Duane you are on it these days. I haven't agreed with you this much in long time. Good going. :) Duane you are on it these days. I haven’t agreed with you this much in long time. Good going. :)

]]> By: DarkStar http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4525 DarkStar Wed, 30 May 2007 12:54:09 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4525 *SIGH* Check your SPAM filter *SIGH*

Check your SPAM filter

]]> By: DarkStar http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4524 DarkStar Wed, 30 May 2007 11:38:13 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/05/30/more-circling-of-the-wagons/#comment-4524 Part of this is because of poor police and community relations. Studies have shown slow or no response times of high crime areas when compared to other areas. The police say part of that is an outcome of residents not supporting them. But from this cop's kid POV, whether or not police have support, it's their damn job to respond in a timely manner. Part of this is because of fear. In some areas, snitching will get you killed. The police response to a family in Baltimore who did snitch and were later killed in a fire bomb, demonstrates how police can drop the ball. Look up the Dawson family in Baltimore. This mutual distrust is feeding on each other and it has to stop. Again in Baltimore, after a rape occurred, a police captain told police officers to stop all Black men on the street in a certain neighborhood between 1AM - 6 AM. A police officer leaked the memo directing officers to do this. Community activists complained. Conservative radio complained about the activist response. The captain was reassigned and the conservative radio really complained. But the radio hosts didn't say anything when those same activist went door to door to distribute fliers with a composite sketch of the attacker. Those same radio hosts didn't say anything when those same activists went to the block watches in the area, with a police officer, to let the block watchers know more information. How do you think those <a href="http://www.prometheus6.org/node/16711" rel="nofollow">who are stopped will react in the long term to this</a>? Part of this is because of poor police and community relations.

Studies have shown slow or no response times of high crime areas when compared to other areas. The police say part of that is an outcome of residents not supporting them. But from this cop’s kid POV, whether or not police have support, it’s their damn job to respond in a timely manner.

Part of this is because of fear. In some areas, snitching will get you killed. The police response to a family in Baltimore who did snitch and were later killed in a fire bomb, demonstrates how police can drop the ball. Look up the Dawson family in Baltimore.

This mutual distrust is feeding on each other and it has to stop. Again in Baltimore, after a rape occurred, a police captain told police officers to stop all Black men on the street in a certain neighborhood between 1AM - 6 AM. A police officer leaked the memo directing officers to do this. Community activists complained. Conservative radio complained about the activist response. The captain was reassigned and the conservative radio really complained. But the radio hosts didn’t say anything when those same activist went door to door to distribute fliers with a composite sketch of the attacker. Those same radio hosts didn’t say anything when those same activists went to the block watches in the area, with a police officer, to let the block watchers know more information.

How do you think those who are stopped will react in the long term to this?

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