Wow what an eye opener. How sad is it that we have been led to believe
by the media and black women as well that the trigger happy police
have been surgically selecting only black men. It never made sense to me
because that is not how bigotry works and now my suspicions have been confirmed, that the problem is not a targeted assault against black men. It can even happen to a white woman who is a citizen of another country who was just doing her civic duty.
July 17/17 Australian woman in Minneapolis there for her wedding
called 911 to report a rape in progress
and was fatally shot by police officer
firing over his own partner while in the patrol car
because of a loud noise.
Really it has come to this.
Do not make any loud noises around a police officer.
Disgusting.
The good news is because it is not a black man or black woman
or poor person, or American citizen issue
and instead the problem lies right in the lap of hair-trigger police.
It makes it an easier problem to solve.
You can fix hair-trigger.
It is much more difficult to weed out closeted bigots
who seek out only one target for their bigotry.
Community policing is a perfect example.
When a community implements community policing
where police have a beat which they walk or bike or use horses
the violence from both police and citizens goes down,
the cooperation from the citizens in turning in the thugs goes up
because police no longer see themselves as “us and them”
and citizens no longer see themselves as “us and them”.
When the police play basketball or skateboard
have community baseball games, and BBQ’s
with the people they have been assigned to protect
then police and citizens begin to see themselves as part of a family
of overlapping vested interests.
Humans are herding creatures
it is how we managed to dominate the world
with such feeble qualifications.
We lack claws, seeing in the dark, pale in speed, strength and stamina
compared to the carnivores who would easily make us a tasty meal.
We do what animals do not do, we specialize.
In the animal world each individual knows how to provide for themselves
if they are caught away from the herd.
Humans are so vulnerable and have such more complicated needs
we have to rise to the challenge by creating communities
In these communities we specialize in the skills we need to survive.
Some of us know how to select the proper herbs to heal our wounds,
some of us become expert at crafting wood or steel into shelters,
others specialize in cooking foods which will not poison us
and others take on the role of protecting the herd
from outsiders and rogue insiders.
Because of this it is very easy to tap into our natural instinct to herd,
to seek to belong to make families out of every group we encounter.
Co-workers , comrades in arms, mom-bloggers,
fisher-people, doctors, lawyers, police they all form familial groups.
So community policing is the perfect answer
to creating a herd between those who are assigned to protect
and those who need protecting.
It has been is proven in theory
and proven over and over again in practice
that we instinctively unite against the thugs and disrupters
who would interfere with the harmonious functioning of the herd
when the police are seen as, and feel as they are one of us.
Some places to look for support and examples.
LIKE TACKLING GUN VIOLENCE
5 Organizations taking a stand against gun violence
https://www.salsalabs.com/get-know-us/blog/5-organizations-taking-a-stand-against-gun-violence
AND
Women: The Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Gun Violence
A young organization in Boston works to prevent sisters, girlfriends,
and wives from becoming unwitting accomplices to shootings,
and spreads awareness in the process.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/women-the-newest-weapon-in-the-fight-against-gun-violence/280986/
AND
GIRLS ON THE ROAD
The Girls on the Road was created out of our desire to tell stories,
share experiences, learn and inspire through examples,
stories, dreams and accomplishments of women of all ages
that everyday remind us
that the most important piece of our wardrobe is our confidence.
