https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
Communities that are poor or composed of people of color are unfairly, systematically policed more than other demographics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States
People of color are routinely stopped by police more than any other demographic because of racial profiling.
People of color routinely suffer police brutality, to include murder.
Law enforcement are almost never arrested or convicted for police brutality or even murder of people of color.
Drug use, prostitution, and mental illness are treated as serious crimes rather than social issues, and treated as such.
The poor and people of color are unfairly, systematically convicted at a higher rate than the wealthy or whites.
The poor and people of color are unfairly, systematically given harsher penalties for comparable crimes than the wealthy or white people.
The prisons are privatized, creating a profit motive to arrest, convict, and imprison even more people.
The US of Merca incarcerates more people per capita than any other country in the world.
The consequences of incarceration already make it ineffective and unethical in most cases.
And now the poor must pay out of pocket to support private industry profits for their unfair policing, arrest rates, and conviction rates.
Meanwhile, the wealthy elite and their corporations commit financial, environmental, and human rights crimes with relative impunity.
I woke up in Idiocracy. This is a dystopia. We need more than police reform; we need an overhaul of the entire judicial system and a paradigm shift in how we tolerate and treat undesired social behavior.
My Youtube playlists:
Racial Inequality in US Justice
Racism in America
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