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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Many cops are dicks who abuse their powers because there are zero repercussions for it. Just about everyone has a story about a cop being an asshole and/or fucking them over in some way.
Sure there are racial components to everything, but I think cops are dicks to pretty much everyone and it comes out worse in areas that are naturally more antagonistic to cops.
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CU's example is a good case of how a revenue-maximizing police department, when faced with the joint problems of only having X number of man-hours to make stops or arrests and having some proportion of fines/citations/charges end up being successfully appealed, would rationally consider it wiser to target a group of individuals who are less likely to have the resources to fight the charges.
Something like that offers enough plausible deniability to claim that police officers aren't racist as a whole, but the net effect on the community is still the same and like you mention, ends up creating a cycle of self-fulfilling prophesies.