[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

I've been talking through all of this with a hardcore right winger in the US I used to work with. He's a very smart guy, always seemed nice enough, but he's deep in an echo chamber. It's been interesting and disturbing seeing the lens a lot of people put on this.

His one point has been that there isn't systemic police racism, but police develop stereotypes because of negative interactions with groups of people over time, and they can be a good thing that is actually a protective mechanism.

I've been trying to bring it back further to root causes with him, and discuss why a black male is so disproportionately likely to have an encounter with the law. As part of this I went digging for education funding numbers as hearing US coworkers talk about moving to a "good school district" has always been an alarm bell for me.

This is a fascinating presentation on the funding inequalities in the US education system: https://edbuild.org/content/23-billion

When the UCP is discussing the privatization of education we all need to do our part to push back. Entrenching systemic inequality for children in our province is in none of our best interests.

I've heard this line of reasoning as well.
There is never any thought that
a) those negative stereotypes are almost certainly passed along by more experienced members of the police force to newer members
b) Future negative interactions that cause people to steerotype are almost certainly confirmation bias
c) That is 100% the definition of institutional racism.