Yup.
https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-about-cops
The biggest factors in the delta between what cops actually do, and white white folk incorrectly think they do:
1) Copaganda TV shows
2) Framing by newspapers and TV news
Without this sustained disinformation campaign against Black people, white folk would not accept this level of racism.🤷🏿♂️
I'll use a white lady as an example, because white ladies are easier for y'all to empathize with.🤷🏿♂️
This woman was accused of a crime that she could not possibly have committed. She was 100% innocent.
She still spent 6 months in jail, lost her home, had her credit destroyed, and went into debt.
Now understand that most people in jail in the US are not convicted criminals. Most people in jail in the US, are poor people in jail pre-trial, just like this woman.
They're disproportionately Black. Many are 100% innocent.
Most of what cops do, is fine/arrest poor Black people, for minor charges.
Cops don't care if the person is really innocent or guilty.
Cops don't care if many innocent people plead guilty two crimes that they could not possibly have done, just so that they won't be in jail for 6 months to a year and lose everything.
Back to our white lady.
We talked about how CECOT was a torture prison, because they put people in solitary confinement for 23 hrs a day.
And we talk about how slave labor camps are bad.
Prison guards can require this white lady to do free labor, using an exception to US anti-slavery laws.
This white lady could say, "Look, I'm innocent! This is all a big mistake! I just want to sit in my cell and mind my own business until the public defender can get this all sorted out! I don't want to make auto parts, or pick cotton on the prison farm!"
She can be sent to solitary for refusing.
Every police "use of force" policy is in place for a very good reason. But cop shows present them as obstacles that get in the way of justice being done.
In real life Detective Stabler is Derek Chauvin, and DA Jack McCoy is the DA that let Kalief Browder be abused in jail for 3 years while innocent.
There are so many Law and Order SVU fans. They believe that the police force spends a lot of its time and resources on solving sex crimes or crimes against children.
The reality is that after spending *billions* on policing, cops have the audacity to pretend that "Rape kit backlog" is a real thing.
When I tell y'all how many people work for the NYPD, and that their budget ($12B/yr) is greater than the military budget of almost every country on earth, people think I'm exaggerating.
I'm not.
So when they say that they "Don't have enough resources," to pursue all the sex crimes or thefts? They are lying.
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