I encourage you to be careful when employing the meme of thought ("Did you know that police originated in slave patrols?") which courses through many socialites' discussion regarding policing and it's history as relating to slave catching, *even if* using it to facilitate persuasion in your closing paragraph. While in the American South, this truncation of history has roots, the same may not (and should not be assumed to) apply to the entirity of the history of policing, and it's "inception", in America at large.
Those individuals who claim that policing is rooted explicitly-so in the pursuit of a means to enforce structural racism, as many misled (read: propagandized) individuals believe, may appear as selfish or ignorant in their anhistorical beliefs which completely disregard the many other class, labor, economic, and law based reasons for the development of (and exploitation of) a police force within the United States.
Thank you for your post. It does well to re-ground those individuals swept up by ideological tides. I encourage all readers to remain virtuous in their discussions with those whom they disagree with.
Same goes for their "studies." They're designed to generate results that are divorced from reality and can be interpreted as racism either way.
For example, an observed discrepancy between teachers disciplining kids by race could be tested for racial bias by surveying their reasons given, then having teachers observe and react to actors recreating those behaviors, randomized by race, and with controls.
Instead, they tracked teachers' eye movements watching a video of mundane interactions between 4 kids (black boy & girl, white boy & girl) and told them to watch for phantom precursors to imaginary future problematic behavior. Teachers of all races kept an eye on black kids more. So obviously, this is evidence of racism. But what if they kept an eye on the white kids more? That'd be neglecting black kids, aka racism. And if they gave equal time to all kids? Color-blind racism, of course!
And with these meaningless, unscientific "studies," they head straight to activism and con$$$ulting.
I encourage you to be careful when employing the meme of thought ("Did you know that police originated in slave patrols?") which courses through many socialites' discussion regarding policing and it's history as relating to slave catching, *even if* using it to facilitate persuasion in your closing paragraph. While in the American South, this truncation of history has roots, the same may not (and should not be assumed to) apply to the entirity of the history of policing, and it's "inception", in America at large.
https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-1
Those individuals who claim that policing is rooted explicitly-so in the pursuit of a means to enforce structural racism, as many misled (read: propagandized) individuals believe, may appear as selfish or ignorant in their anhistorical beliefs which completely disregard the many other class, labor, economic, and law based reasons for the development of (and exploitation of) a police force within the United States.
Thank you for your post. It does well to re-ground those individuals swept up by ideological tides. I encourage all readers to remain virtuous in their discussions with those whom they disagree with.
Same goes for their "studies." They're designed to generate results that are divorced from reality and can be interpreted as racism either way.
For example, an observed discrepancy between teachers disciplining kids by race could be tested for racial bias by surveying their reasons given, then having teachers observe and react to actors recreating those behaviors, randomized by race, and with controls.
Instead, they tracked teachers' eye movements watching a video of mundane interactions between 4 kids (black boy & girl, white boy & girl) and told them to watch for phantom precursors to imaginary future problematic behavior. Teachers of all races kept an eye on black kids more. So obviously, this is evidence of racism. But what if they kept an eye on the white kids more? That'd be neglecting black kids, aka racism. And if they gave equal time to all kids? Color-blind racism, of course!
And with these meaningless, unscientific "studies," they head straight to activism and con$$$ulting.