07-18-2016, 07:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2016, 07:20 PM by Anthony '58.)
A three-pronged latter-day Crittenden Compromise could save us:
1. Implement "Jim Crow policing" - only black officers patrol black neighborhoods (and only Latino officers patrol Latino neighborhoods); and if this requires massive hiring of new cops in some jurisdictions, then so be it. They did this in Boston in 1850 after Irish Catholics complained of being constantly roughed up by WASP cops, and it was also part of the 1998 Good Friday accord in Northern Ireland, so precedents exist.
2. Legalize marijuana: A vastly inordinate number of police stops of African-Americans involve that drug. Plus you can get conservative support for this by taxing legal pot sales appropriately and using the revenue specifically to fund charity care for those who can't afford private health insurance, whereupon Obamacare can then be repealed.
3. Pass a nationwide concealed carry law - pleasing righty-whitey "gun nuts" while concomitantly abolishing "stop and frisk" en passant, in that what police would be looking for in like 99.9% of all potential stop-and-frisk scenarios would no longer be illegal to possess.
1. Implement "Jim Crow policing" - only black officers patrol black neighborhoods (and only Latino officers patrol Latino neighborhoods); and if this requires massive hiring of new cops in some jurisdictions, then so be it. They did this in Boston in 1850 after Irish Catholics complained of being constantly roughed up by WASP cops, and it was also part of the 1998 Good Friday accord in Northern Ireland, so precedents exist.
2. Legalize marijuana: A vastly inordinate number of police stops of African-Americans involve that drug. Plus you can get conservative support for this by taxing legal pot sales appropriately and using the revenue specifically to fund charity care for those who can't afford private health insurance, whereupon Obamacare can then be repealed.
3. Pass a nationwide concealed carry law - pleasing righty-whitey "gun nuts" while concomitantly abolishing "stop and frisk" en passant, in that what police would be looking for in like 99.9% of all potential stop-and-frisk scenarios would no longer be illegal to possess.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892