- commit crimes in expensive neighborhoods
- Kill police officers
But not the ones occur in the ghetto? I don’t understand?
- These are the stories that make the news.
- Enlightened self-interest.
Confirmation bias.
when ray ray gets shot in the hood that makes the news too
I guess our prisons are full of people who committed crimes primarily in good neighborhoods, eh?
No but It seems like when someone is killed in the hood they rely on the public for help
When someone is found dead in a condo they the police are working around the clock
The real questions is:
why do new join date members produce the lamest Pit threads?
Now why in the world would you ask me something like that?
I’ve certainly noticed the bias in certain media regarding, say “Missing Middle-Class White Girl” is much more newsworthy than “Missing Poor Black Boy,” but that’s not the police - that’s Nancy Grace and her ilk. But the cops I know are doing their jobs, not for the media coverage (mostly - I do know one who’s a big ol’ media whore. But he’s also gunning for the sheriff’s job, and seems to believe that the combination of his mother’s political background and becoming the “face” of the department will catapult him into the office. I think he’s wrong, and that he’s a giant useless waste of oxygen, but he’s the exception, not the rule.) The guys who are out there on patrol, or in the detective’s offices, or part of the internet crimes unit, are working to protect the rich and the poor and everyone in between. Privately, they might believe that whomever murdered that drug-dealing jerk in the 'hood did the taxpayers a favor, but they’re still looking for the murderer. They’re just as devastated by a crime against a poor child as against a wealthy one. You just don’t hear about it, because media outlets choose what stories to cover.
How does it matter how they catch the bad guys, so long as the bad guys get caught?
Do you really not understand? Of are you just being angry about it?
Because they don’t.
Next question?
I need to know why
If your want a sincere answer to a legitimate question, the General Questions forum is your best bet.
If you would like to propose a debate, Great Debates is where you should go for that.
If you want to post an unsupported assertion with the hope of launching pointless, snarky arguments with a bunch of unimpressed strangers, well, here you are.
Go talk to a cop, ask him where he makes most of his arrests.
I think you’ll discover your assertion is untrue.
This is just too easy.
I’m going to go have a beer and watch Marshall Dillon and then Gunsmoke - it’s far better entertainment than this idiot is going to provide. Although I will probably stop back in later to point and laugh as he’s excoriated. I’m mean like that.
Because you are wrong.
Your friend sounds about like every elected sheriff I’ve ever had cause to know anything about, so he may be on the right track.
I believe in most big cities police officers either work on a special team (like Narcotics / Homicide / Vice / various task forces) or are assigned to work in a specific district/precinct. The police who are assigned to those precincts are only going to care about those areas, and if they’re assigned to the ghetto, then in fact all of their work will be on crimes there. Police who work as detectives I think basically get assigned cases in a rotation, and once they’re assigned they’re expected to clear them or it makes them look bad and more importantly makes their boss look bad. So i doubt they just shuffle away murders in the hood into a cold case file the first day of looking into it.
The First 48 (which I’ve only seen a few episodes of), seems to show a lot of murders in low income neighborhoods, and the cops they show in the documentary seem to take it pretty seriously. But, they are on camera.
I thought this was an actual thread, but it’s a false alarm.