We all want to be safe, and our safety is intertwined, says Tracie Keesee, cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity. Sharing lessons she's learned from 25 years as a police officer, Keesee reflects on the public safety challenges faced by both the police and local neighborhoods, especially in the African American community, as well as the opportunities we all have preserving dignity and guaranteeing justice. "We must move forward together. There's no more us versus them," Keesee says.
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I trust the law more than people in my school
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Perhaps these globalist funded politicians should stop ordering the police to stand down, when violent antifa wreaks Havoc all over the place.
how do globalist and antifa go together
so… what does antifa have to do with this at all? She’s black and talking about black people things which are typically left-leaning, and antifa is left leaning, so, therefore, antifa=black people? god you’re a moron…
Impressive thumbnail
Yeah, the thumbnail though. I thought she was either very saintly or had an orange afro.
Was lookin’ for that comment. Good stuff.
I clicked on it just to see if this comment was already made. 🙂
that’s EXTREMELY racist. next time check your PRIVILEGE before you judge that woman. how do you know she would grow an afro when she’d bald? you just ASSUME because she’s black she doesn’t have straight hair. omg I hope you get banned from youtube. I;m literally shaking rn. I read your comment to my 3 year old daughter and she said “why is society so judgmental, I’m struggling to cope in this racist environment I’m literally scared for my life”
J. Costlow I thought it was an Indian dude
I was about to say that, lol, she looks like an angel from an old painting
How about black majority groups will start to be policed more ??
“The black community” only exists because people address it as such. Every time you say the phrase ” the black community,” you are adding another brick to the prison that houses every individual who is considered black, making it stronger and more Draconian. Separate race from concepts like culture and community which try do define a common behavior or mindset. THAT is how you eradicate stereotypes and, more specifically, racism. Don’t be lazy with labels. The closer we get to a world where the culture we live in and the consuetudes we are bound by can be easily chosen by the individual, whatever ethnic or national background he holds, through action and travel, the more free the individual is to define himself and live according to the values he holds.
@mhtinla Look, no one is denying your experience here. You descriptions are accurate in the way you see them and even if it comes to your surprise, I agree with you. Your suspicions about a street full of black teens are valid since this is the way you estimate danger, this is the way we ALL estimate dangerous situations and mostly it works. It works because it is an advantage to generatlize certain traits to certain groups since it saves a lot of time and effort an its always better to be safe than sorry. This is not a bad thing. This is an evolutionary survival mechanism that served us well.
But that doesnt mean that if this kind of thinking works well for tiny groups with distinct characteristics, it also works well for a big and complex society. In a society like we live in today, the tendency to identify with group characteristics become increasingly dangerous. It is one thing to judge every day experience in this way, but it become a whole lot different if you judge large groups or even nations this way since this mechanism never was meant to be work like that. It evolved for small tribes to defend themselfes, not for a global society to live a peacefull live and not kill each other at every chance.
We must face that even if we have those mechanisms in us, they might not be usefull for the challenges we will face now and in the future. This is what Crockett is talking about.
So… in order to solve an issue we have to ignore the definitions that are detailed in it? How is that supposed to solve anything?
The fact that, even on the internet, you and Crockett quickly form a tribe proves that humans are tribal animal.
Ita not about ignoring definitions, its about making definitions with a higher resolution. Instead of “group x have y traits” going down to “the individual in group x have y traits”. In that way you have much more information and can see problems that you would miss in the first definition while still acknowledge the group charackeristic. But you now derive your actions from the individual perspective and the larger group “color” become secondary. That would take away quite a bit of ground on where racism and postmodern stupidity grows.
Right, we share the same ideas. If this is enough for a tribe? One could debate about that. 😉
Ayy what up Jay Z
Public Safety. It’s a concept that self identifies how do you have public safety when kids are not expected to complete school. The same kids hang out all night because there are no plans the parents have no solutions for the problems that every single kid has when they’re young. And why is that because sometimes parents are just all the children carrying on just as poorly as their own children Public Safety is a 24 hour job before the police even get involed
You know the politicians aren’t anointed like in an aristocracy right? They also shouldn’t be chosen by a select few of “elite” either. You vote in the politicians. You choose the politicians. Talking to them won’t be worth a damn if they weren’t voted in to deal with these issues in the first place. You talk to the people. The people make the message clear to the politicians. Please learning Republic/Democracy 101 before spewing sewage from your rat hole (aka words and mouths respectively on normally informed people).
Easily one of the better sjw talks from ted, apart from the implicit bias bs.
How can I comment on something when I don’t have the experience or the information I’m not a big believer in making things up
Is perspective now consider truth absolutely not
Shoot the criminals. Easy.
You take all responsibility away from the community. Also implicit bias has been debunked and even disowned by it’s creators.
Cameras on coners of problem areas, police would also patrol it, upgrade the neighborhood with fence ,better lighting,and paint run down apartment.
Better if people in the neighbourhood start watching out for the bad guys
I see she never talked about the public simply committing less crime.
You giving speeches to the wrong people…it should be politicians, students or kids…people who can actually, physically, make a difference or change something, not to midlife crisis folks sitting in the audience! You informing the wrong mass…someone should tell her that…you wasting your energy!
I have never seen a safe black neighborhood.