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I4NRulez posted...

Atralis posted...

Back in 2009 Denver had a series of racially motivated attacks against whites in the Main Street for bars and night clubs downtown and the cops didn't report the details because of political correctness as well.

This kind of selective reporting only leads to people imagining the worst. If you know the cops hide crime reports involving minorities you are going to assume things are worse not better when it comes to minorities and crime.

There's a difference from saying something along the lines of "He's a black male between 5'7 and 5'9 with a scar on his face and this tattoo on his arm" and saying "He's a black male between 5'0 and 6'5".

Which is what im guessing they are trying to avoid.

Think about the consequences of hiding information. In Denver in 2008 if someone had said "there are gangs of black people going around attacking random white people on the 16th street mall every weekend. You don't hear about it in the news because the cops are hiding the information because of political correctness" I would have thought you were a racist conspiracy theorist.

If you said it in any year after 2009 I would think "Oh no not again". The point being that for all I know the random rumor may be more true than the lack of reporting about the situation in the news because the city and police department have a history of covering this kind of thing up.

So instead of this being some bad shit that happened years ago it becomes an enduring myth in the community because you don't really know if things have gotten better or the cops have just gotten better at covering up the crimes that occur. Instead of a lack of information leading you to think the information isn't there a lot of people assume the worst and you can't blame them.