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Is the issue with police brutality a lack of evidence?

Not trolling, legitimately asking this. It feels like every year some viral video comes out where police do something horrible, it feels like little progress has been made on the issue. Is it simply a visibility problem?

>>jorblu+(OP)
I think these kind of things do help. For people who consume the right kinds of media, there’s lots of coverage of police brutality and I’m sure some of that coverage uses resources like this. If you’re seeing plenty of viral videos then your media consumption is helping you connect with the issue.

Other people rarely or never see coverage though, and aren’t even close to having widespread understanding of the issue of police brutality and it’s relationship with systemic racism, so much more reporting and media production needs to be done.

>>jorblu+(OP)
More so, it is court protection. Read the verdicts of most police who have been tried in court.

>>jorblu+(OP)
Is it simply a visibility problem?

Several generations of recorded American history tell us: no.

Decent ethical sense tells us: absolutely, emphatically no.

Nothing about this is simple.

>>jorblu+(OP)
The way I see it, a viral video pops up and there's outrage then two weeks later we're onto the next outrage. I am guilty of this myself and this is why I think it is important to collect this so it isn't forgotten.

>>h3cate+z2
>I am guilty of this myself

Aren't you the wrong person to catalogue this stuff then?

>>Hamuko+j3
Maybe, I never said that I was the right person and this is certainly something I don't see myself doing for the rest of my life. I would however like to give the tools to those who are the right people.