Being a minority in an NYPD world.
This will offend many but I truly need y'all to think what it is like to be a minority of color and sexually orientation in an NYPD world. I'm not cop bashing cause I know some that are wonderful but I want y'all to understand the culture that is the NYPD and their so called CPR in my book means. Cruelty, Profanity and Racism.
What does it mean to be a black person living in NYC when the NYPD want to see me six feet deep. It means as a mother I have to worry about my unarmed sons being shot down for standing their ground. For asking questions when their constitutional and civil rights are being violated when they have done nothing wrong.
See I have been on both sides when dealing with the NYPD as a victim, as a professional and as a parent. You see when I was the victim of a shooting, I had a Sargent tell me I know nothing about violence or living in a violent neighborhood. Well me being me I had to let him know I grew up on a place that at one point was known as the carjacking capital of the world.
As a professional I use to see violence in my day to day activities as a DV social worker and how they treated the victims. See what they don't want to let the world know is that law enforcement has the highest rates of alcoholism, divorce and domestic violence.
As a parent the cops stopped my oldest son when he was in middle school wanting to search his bag before he got on the subway. I told them no he is a minor and he is going to school. I told my son to go , the cop was like no. I told my son get o. The train. Like my said told the cop I gotta live with her, she is more scarier than you. When my son left they said they can hold me for interrupting their job. I told him to get his supervisor and precent commander. Let's just say he was shocked when a higher up told him he was wrong for approaching a minor.
When I went to pride this year people do not understand facial expressions tell it all. I have seen the way the older cops look at the pride participants with sneers and utter disdain. I always say if you do not want to work pride give the job to someone who will work it with pride. When it comes to dealing with violence against the LGBT community if it is not an election year or you have pro gay politician they do not want to investigate it. Like I said I have seen it up close and personal.
The thing with the NYPD is that they are racist and they are still homophobic. Please do not say but you have minorities officers . See those officers want to be accepted so bad by their lighter colleagues that learn bad behaviors those are the cops I call the house niggas. I am not going to bite my tongue.
So yeah I have had my dealings with them, yes you have some cops that are great at their jobs. But you have the ones who think having a gun and a badge gives them the biggest set of dick and balls around.
So what happened to Eric Garnier is nothing new, the PBA union dick Pat Lynch is always going to be a yeasty infected pieces of shit. To the house niggas in the PBA union who let Pat Lynch parade them in front of the cameras, don't think you are equal cause you are not y'all are just another set of niggas and spics in their eyes.
So yeah I used the for mention slurs for folks to understand how they NYPD really see the general public.
This will offend many but I truly need y'all to think what it is like to be a minority of color and sexually orientation in an NYPD world. I'm not cop bashing cause I know some that are wonderful but I want y'all to understand the culture that is the NYPD and their so called CPR in my book means. Cruelty, Profanity and Racism.
What does it mean to be a black person living in NYC when the NYPD want to see me six feet deep. It means as a mother I have to worry about my unarmed sons being shot down for standing their ground. For asking questions when their constitutional and civil rights are being violated when they have done nothing wrong.
See I have been on both sides when dealing with the NYPD as a victim, as a professional and as a parent. You see when I was the victim of a shooting, I had a Sargent tell me I know nothing about violence or living in a violent neighborhood. Well me being me I had to let him know I grew up on a place that at one point was known as the carjacking capital of the world.
As a professional I use to see violence in my day to day activities as a DV social worker and how they treated the victims. See what they don't want to let the world know is that law enforcement has the highest rates of alcoholism, divorce and domestic violence.
As a parent the cops stopped my oldest son when he was in middle school wanting to search his bag before he got on the subway. I told them no he is a minor and he is going to school. I told my son to go , the cop was like no. I told my son get o. The train. Like my said told the cop I gotta live with her, she is more scarier than you. When my son left they said they can hold me for interrupting their job. I told him to get his supervisor and precent commander. Let's just say he was shocked when a higher up told him he was wrong for approaching a minor.
When I went to pride this year people do not understand facial expressions tell it all. I have seen the way the older cops look at the pride participants with sneers and utter disdain. I always say if you do not want to work pride give the job to someone who will work it with pride. When it comes to dealing with violence against the LGBT community if it is not an election year or you have pro gay politician they do not want to investigate it. Like I said I have seen it up close and personal.
The thing with the NYPD is that they are racist and they are still homophobic. Please do not say but you have minorities officers . See those officers want to be accepted so bad by their lighter colleagues that learn bad behaviors those are the cops I call the house niggas. I am not going to bite my tongue.
So yeah I have had my dealings with them, yes you have some cops that are great at their jobs. But you have the ones who think having a gun and a badge gives them the biggest set of dick and balls around.
So what happened to Eric Garnier is nothing new, the PBA union dick Pat Lynch is always going to be a yeasty infected pieces of shit. To the house niggas in the PBA union who let Pat Lynch parade them in front of the cameras, don't think you are equal cause you are not y'all are just another set of niggas and spics in their eyes.
So yeah I used the for mention slurs for folks to understand how they NYPD really see the general public.
Well thought out post, Mo-Mo. And you make some valid points. Racism is still alive and well and will most likely be for a long time to come. I believe strides have been made, but there is still a long way to go.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a household where my father was a police officer and later moved up the ranks to Chief. I grew up with the guys on the force and in down so, left me not fearing them. I respected them, but I didn't fear them because I knew the philosophy behind their job. And they weren't perfect human beings, which is true in any job. I'm sure many abused the bottle and their wives.
The city people sat my mother down after my father retired and went through all the paperwork for them for the retirement, etc. and one told my mother "You realize that people who've been in this line of work don't live as long as their spouses." That shocked her. But I realize with the kind of stress that existed then, it's true. I think the stress is even worse these days where so many are expected to do more with less.
However, that doesn't excuse the racism. I know if I'd been born earlier or announced at the age of 8 that I was gay, they would have been far less kind to me and given me the stares you saw officers give at Pride.
But here's the thing, as long as we have people like you speaking your mind and trying to make a difference, we will continue to make progress. I don't give a rip about the color of someone's skin. I care what they're like as a human being and, baby, you're beautiful!
Your right but see what people keep forgetting is that, the bad cops normally out weight the good cops. See your dad was one in a million. Here what you get now are cops who barley have a grasps on the English language just getting out of high school with maybe two years of college and figure now that I have this gun and badge let me see what power goes with it. It's sad to say that I rather my sons run to a recreational pharmacist or into a gay bar for help than trust the cops. They talk about community policing coming back here but I don't see it. If you want better relations with the community as a whole they need to star walking the beat again and getting to know the districts that they serve and build up a cooperative relationship with the community it serves and protect. Yeah I think you rock too Old man .
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