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[JP_]

exactly, i doubt any have been in the UK. Scrutiny from the media has never been greater

How many Police officers have lost their job due to being racist?

https://west-midlands.police.uk/news/police-officer-sacked-racist-comments#

https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/ne...three-officers-for-racism-last-year-1-3626309

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...cer-sacked-offensive-racist-facebook-comments

Just from first page of Google results

Plenty more have been sacked for being racist. All the stories seem to be hidden in the public news so you may not have seen them.

 

[Brigadier]

https://west-midlands.police.uk/news/police-officer-sacked-racist-comments#

https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/ne...three-officers-for-racism-last-year-1-3626309

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...cer-sacked-offensive-racist-facebook-comments

Just from first page of Google results

Plenty more have been sacked for being racist. All the stories seem to be hidden in the public news so you may not have seen them.

Which is good : until you can stop people being "racist", take action against them for being so.

 

[Ihavenojob]

until you can stop people being "racist"

Is that even possible ?

 

[Brigadier]

Is that even possible ?

As not everyone is, I reckon it is.
Rome wasn't built in a day though.

 

[JP_]

Not easy. Racism is born at home before kids go to school.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Not easy. Racism is born at home before kids go to school.

Hopefully, education is the first line of defence, or attack, whichever way you see it.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Perhaps if they stopped instead of speeding off, the police may have acted differently ? If the police wanted me to stop, I wouldn't try and evade them.

Because it is a trust relationship which has inevitably broken down between the BAME and the police.
If you had no trust in the police, and you had experienced constant pressure from them, and was genuinely concerned that they were picking on you because of the colour of your skin, I daresay, you would run also.

One racist police person can destroy the trust between the BAME community and the police.

 

[JP_]

Hopefully, education is the first line of defence, or attack, whichever way you see it.

Yes, but by the time teachers identify it, it is usually to late to change opinion. I know quite a few racists and xenophobes - none of them would admit it, but they constantly day racist and xenophobic things, one antisemite and another anti-muslim too.

The problem is, people just don't realise their opinion is wrong. When parents say racist things out become fact before education can step in. Bit like religion and football in that respect!

 

[Ihavenojob]

ne racist police person can destroy the trust between the BAME community and the police.

And BLM has set the whole race relations effort back 50 years. Can you dislike black people without being racist ?

 

[JP_]

And BLM has set the whole race relations effort back 50 years

Nonsense. The only people moaning about blm are racists.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Yes, but by the time teachers identify it, it is usually to late to change opinion. I know quite a few racists and xenophobes - none of them would admit it, but they constantly day racist and xenophobic things, one antisemite and another anti-muslim too.

The problem is, people just don't realise their opinion is wrong. When parents say racist things out become fact before education can step in. Bit like religion and football in that respect!

I wasn't thinking about reactive education. I was thinking about proactive education.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Nonsense. The only people moaning about blm are racists.

Possibly, you do get black racists.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Possibly, you do get black racists.

Prejudice exists in many forms. That doesn't excuse any of it.
And you're doing a whataboutery.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Prejudice exists in many forms. That doesn't excuse any of it.
And you're doing a whataboutery.

The problem with trying to eradicate racism, is that people have different ideas of what racism is. As I asked earlier, can you dislike black people and not be racist? Are people trying to tell others what they can and can't like ? If I said "I hate the Chinese" but didn't act on that hatred and treated them equally and not think of them as inferior , is that racism?

 

[dontbelieveawordofit]

And BLM has set the whole race relations effort back 50 years. Can you dislike black people without being racist ?

not on here you can’t