Hi Kenneth,

First off, thanks for the response.

I would disagree that most contempt for police officer exists because of police brutality. I think there are more fundamental causes at play. If cops stopped being less brutal today, there would still be contempt for police.

Things like the Drug War, civil asset forfeiture, and ticket quotas would still force people to disdain law enforcement.

I know that you think I don’t have a perspective, but as someone who grew up in white trash suburbia, in a town where there is no predominant poverty-stricken black community for the cops to “focus” on, the police have harassed my family and neighbors many times. Planting drugs and illegal searches are a common occurrence, so let’s save the pithy assumptions for a different day. “You are white, therefore, you don’t know,” is a bad way to start discussions.

I think you failed to see the purpose of my post. The problem I have is when people tend to follow ideological thoughts (like BLM) instead of constructive areas of thought that produce solutions.

In fact, you state such an ideological generalization that I humorously advised against, “It’s because the police have a long history of abusing their position of power.”

Really? All police do? You immediately point the finger at police, rather than a problem. Imagine if I retorted with the generalization that black people have a long history of criminal behavior. Where would that get us?

We can have rational debates on problems and solutions, or we can have emotional discussions over tiresome ideologies that tend to put groups of people in a box of preconceived notions: “cops/blacks are bad mm’kay.”

I’d rather it be the former!