To the dummy who keeps trying to comment and re-comment and delete and post again "It was just the new system!" over and over, you should try watching the video. The new system is mentioned as contributing to the most recent missing data. The point is that police are not reporting hate crimes data EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. In huge numbers. Because of this, FBI data on hate crimes is always flawed compared to DOJ data and independent data, but FBI data is sourced when people want to downplay hate crimes because it's always the lowest and always an outlier. Police departments benefit from this deception, as do all conservative/status quo organizations. Watch the video instead of pretending you know what is said in it. Stop trying to get around this.
It's not a "new system" this shit has been around for years. It's laziness. Governments are full of lazy people who could give a f... Places like NY or LA have the resources to do it, they just don't want to bother.
@@ashlirabid9614 You need a baseline of magical or conspiratorial thinking just to end up a conservative. But it takes a real dedication to ignorance to remain one.
I was the victim of a violent hate crime. There were witnesses. The cop I talked to said it wasn't a hate crime because "there's no such thing as a hate crime against disability." The perp literally yelled about my disability as he sprained my shoulder trying to rip me out of my wheelchair backwards. If I had my seat belt on it would have been so so much worse. When I called the station to make a complaint he said there's no such thing as internal affairs and I watch too much tv. The crime was never investigated. Reddit ALSO told me it wasn't a hate crime at all because during the battery he yelled that I wasn't disabled and I shouldn't have a wheelchair if I can stand up at all. Therefore its automatically NOT a hate crime.
This is so chilling and terrible, and also sadly unsurprising considering g how many of the people cops murder every year are disabled folks. It’s also wild because ableist gatekeepers seem convinced that they are doing a good thing for disabled people by assaulting someone they don’t perceive as disabled. Makes me want to scream.
I'm so sorry. If something like that ever happens again, talk to a lawyer first. If there's a handicapped advocacy group near you, or a group that specializes in people with similar conditions, they might be able to point you towards sympathetic lawyers that might be able to help more of it were to happen again. Lazy cops will let an amazing amount of stuff slide just because they don't want to do the paperwork. And when you add how nasty so many people naturally treat the handicapped, it's a recipe for disaster. Just try to find ways of stacking the deck in your favor more, just in case it were to ever happen again. And best of luck.
That is horrible, I’m sorry that happened. I’m not surprised about people thinking if a person can stand then they don’t need a wheelchair, though. It sucks that is such a common belief. It’s not based in reality.
Here in Germany we have the same problem: Hate crimes are frequently undercounted. Mostly because a lot of hate crimes aren't regarded as such by the police even though common sense would consider them such. In the worst cases the police doesn't even try to find the perpetrators but rather harrass the victims. That was the case for the NSU murders, in which the police denied for YEARS that the murderers could be Nazis and instead alleged that the victims had been active in foreign organized crime. And in 1990 there was an arson attack against a house inhabitant by migrant families in Bavaria. A little boy died. Police said they suspected one of the inhabitants of the house, but stopped investigating after two years. Only recently the family learned that there was actually a letter claiming responsibility by Neonazis that the police had obscured.
I served 8 almost 9 years as an MP in the USAF. I served my community and country proudly. My principles were compromised and challenged while helping with riots and protests a few years back.. I saw things and heard things that were done to people by police and a small group of my guys. I refused my re-enlistment.. I took an oath and I meant it with my whole heart. I protect. Not assault and harm civilians and protesters exercising their rights.. I truly helped many and saved lives.. im sorry.. now seeing this.. what have I been blind to.
You not only learned better, but you put it into practice in your real life. That counts for a whole lot in my book. I'm not sure how gung ho you might've been before, but at least you've moved past it now. Most people in your former position don't grow or learn like that, so you're still miles ahead of many. Best of luck, though, and I hope you don't have too much internal reckoning to come to peace with.
I used to think the hate crime classification was useless. This video changed my mind. Especially since prejudice based threats or violence can be a threat to the whole discriminated group. I never thought about it that way.
What did you think it was for? That's literally the whole idea behind the hate crime enhancement as a legal tool. I'm not trying to argue or be incrediulous, I'm just confused and curious. It was designed to punish someone who specifically targeted the wellbeing of a whole racial/sexual/religious/gender/etc minority group, more than someone who attacked an individual who just happened to be from one of said groups from day one. That's why it's an enhancement to existing charges. Why did you think it was useless?
@@RevShifty the argument I've heard is that it's the government making extra bad to murder minorities but it's just ho hum if it happens to anyone else. Edit: which I know isnt true
Thank you for being open to hearing out others. Most stick to their opinions and ideals and reject anything that contradicts them. This makes arguing pointless
@@RevShifty my thought process was that assaulting a non-minority person vs assaulting a minority person should not be considered differently. But as the video points out, if the assault on the minority was motivated by prejudice then it does have implications besides just being assaulted. I never considered these implications. I just thought assault is assault is assault.
@@RevShifty I used to think this too. I was ignorant and misinformed. I also grew up listening to conservative talk radio via my parents. If you follow conservative media, they actively downplay hate crimes in the news. They spread the narrative that hate crimes are just made up by liberals to stir division that otherwise no longer exists. They actually believe this, and I unfortunately was sucked into believing it too.
I Know that Mitch McConnell is pretty much old news by now, but considering the damage he did by being the leader of the Tea Party days from 2015 till 2021, I would love to see a video about him. maybe he isn't as substantial in retrospect, but the banality of his cruelty stands out even amongst other GOP.
A friend from Atlanta got beaten for wearing a rainbow hat. Many slurs were said. He kept his bloodied hat as a reminder of the line that was drawn that night.
The idea of being attacked by someone because I'm trans runs through my mind everyday, it kinda hangs there within the subtle thoughts of my mind. I'm white and amab, so before I started transitioning it was quiet as someone invisible or seemingly intrinsically trusted. It certainly is an interesting change, though it becomes an odd thought that there are people that would gladly brutalise and murder me because of I am not I am. It causes a bit of paranoia about what people would kill or brutalise me if there wasn't the thin veneer of societal respectability. I feel like not reporting hate crime makes that appearance of societal respectability even thinner and so the would be threats are not "would be". Police don't actually do their jobs anymore as a way of whining about defund the police. The pop up chop shop or something at the end of my street might be proof enough- yes, the chop shop has gotten complaints yet nothing happens. I don't know that I care about that, just noticeable.
I've gone my whole life refusing to deal with police, and I'm a cis hetero white guy. Nothing good ever comes from their involvement, and the only thing they're any good at is making any given situation worse, at best. I do hope you at least feel safe enough wherever you are. If you don't, you might want to look into Armed Equality and see if they have any recommendations for people in your area.
Unfun fact: the cop who murdered Daniel Shaver, while he was on his knees begging for his life, gets $2500/month for life for the PTSD he developed after murdering Daniel.
One of the biggest "missed the point" videos I've ever seen is cops dancing to Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the name of." Here's the first verse: "Some of those that work forces, Are the same that burn crosses." It repeats those lines four times, and this line is repeated several times throughout the song. It's saying "cops are racist." The rest of the lyrics continue this, with a line about how cops justify murder. Oh, that outro? You know the one. The singer is resisting arrest. That line is directed at the police.
If you're a conservative of any sort, let alone a dumbass cop, who enjoys RATM, then congratulations. You're a stunningly stupid moron who missed *all* the points.
The way cops enforce hate crime laws feels so very liberal. Completely ignorant of the material reality and only attentive to the aesthetic. If the suspect isn't shouting "I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE OF YOUR IDENTITY" *during* the crime, it's not hate.
Also, hate crimes suggest a persons aptitude to reoffend. If someone runs another driver off the road bc they were pissed off in traffic, maybe thats the end of it. However, if that same person committed the act as a hate crime, they are likely to continue the behavior after punishment and victimize new drivers.
Yap, thing to remember about police: -The function is to protect the lawfullness and order of society, not its citicens. -If the law or interest of high goverment is harm the people they will do so, specially if it implies opression. -Watch out as changes in laws can and will affect you withouth you knowing about them (This is why maintain onself politicaly inform is important, learned this the BAD WAY) -Police is a hiracichal structure with direct and indirect power, meaning a mayor magnet for people who want a position to abuse and organize corruption. -If having a police recomendation make it wasier to get a police job this corruption is even easier expanded. -There is those that underestand how the law is made following the spirit of it more than the letter, this are a minority, or silent inactive portion, not count on them to be the one you found. Also dont forget the silent inactive is more likly to be the one doing as told even if they dont like it, if in a bad situation they will take the chance to bail on their "bad duty"
I have been watching your videos for some time (at least 4 or 5 years). I am pretty sure that you have mentioned (the social movement in the United States which could be described as) the cult of individualism--a rightwing movement that often includes (but is by no means limited to) Right leaning Libertarianism, a vein of the Right wing anti tax ethic, the works of Ayn Rand, the myths of the Old West and the Lone Gunslinger (as, perhaps, Jungian archtypes). It perhaps also might include the myth of the modern entrepreneur, the myth that includes the visual imagery of the Marlboro Man, the lone strong jawed hero typified by certain Hollywood stars such as Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, and many others, and etcetera... If you have not done a video addressing this particular sub set of the Rightwing myth of patriotism, please do so. It is a video that needs to be made and is right up your alley. On the other hand, maybe you did make such a video, and the ideas I list here are echos of a memory of a Renegade Cut production. Anyway, great video. 😊
a dude in my state that was involved with abolition protests last summer committed suicide by hanging in a field... well, that's what the cops put on the certificates.
These summary executions by the state un the US are scary AF. There are so many stories like this that really drive home the point that the US is a dystopian empire.
My dad told me "all crimes are hate crimes" the night I was assaulted by two ppl who called me "f*gg*t" as they got out of their car. I had recently come out of the closet. Thanks, Dad
I was almost a victim of a hate crime. Four guys tried to jump me for being queer but I fought back with a folding pocket box cutter I always carry as a tool and a means of self defense and was able to get away. The police treated me like I was the criminal and many family members members didn't get it. Always carry a weapon in case you have to defend yourself, especially if you're LGBT.
The fact that local police are independent agencies (and not subordinate branches of state police) means there's ~19,000 separate sets of stats instead of
My dad calls himself a "liberal" and has said that phrase many times. Also that "a person _must_ be mentally ill to [end others' lives], cos anyone with a healthy state of mind knows it's terrible." As in, that action is only possible by someone who is mentally ill. Smh. He also believes that "there should be an IQ test required for people to 'breed'" (he uses that word! :x ick!) Speaking of, when I was cleaning out their garage to move some years ago, I found a copy of "The Bell Curve". And it may have slipped out of my hand into the bin. Whoopsie! ↼_,↼ Oh, and more on "intelligence" (and ignoring culture, generational trauma, etc.) he wishes the very worst on "anyone who refuses to get the [Rona jab]". As in, that they get ill and don't survive as punishment for their "foolishness". I'm not anti, but that's just awful! Sure, some folks are terrible about it, like their Libertarian neighbours, who are big on Q and OAN and distrust "Big þhαrma" [yet buy 'percs' off their Libby friends] and _both_ refuse to get jabs _and_ refuse to mask up _and_ go out when sick... But they're a small %. I have a friend who doesn't trust the jab, but she'll mask up as directed, she stays home if sick, and does social distancing. I wish she would get the jab, but at least she takes care, but she doesn't _"deserve_ to [end forever]". Idk. He used to "loathe TV", especially TV news ("why get it jumbled through a mouthpiece when I can read it myself straight from AP/etc.?") but now all he does is watch that sketchy stuff all the time, and when on the computer instead, reads Slate and known untrustworthy sources from our home country. I told him CNN was bought out and, though it had been centrist at best (really much worse, but he doesn't listen), it's been openly said that the goal is to make it "MOAR centrist". I happened to be over and their TV was tuned to CNN on the day they showed that upside-down, backwards graph of "rising crime" (data was "are you concerned about rising crime?", not any real numbers, plus a backwards time progression on the X axis?!)... I'm sad to say it, but these groups _do_ aim for boomers, and their tricks _work._ My parents still watch CNN religiously. And I can hear the changes in their views, molded by the TV. "Oh, good!" my mum exclaimed, interrupting me on the phone. "They voted to keep Trump's immigration policies!" ...WE'RE immigrants! Not from Asia, but she believed the B.S. being said about people from much closer to where we're from. She knows better. Or so I thought. But Reagan is her favourite POTUS, despite his... sketchy track record with A LOT of other countries. Idk anymore. Sorry for the waffling. Cheers.
@@mookinbabysealfurmittens your dad sounds like a fascist using dog whistles to not be called on his bullshit. He literally believes in eugenics. Definitely not a liberal lol n
I could be too empathetic, but unless you're a true rare sociopath. You do something terrible. Things will catch up with you, and eat you up eventually. Many soldiers in 1940s Germany turned to the bottle to numb the pain after WWII. You can blame the system. We should be empathetics to the pawns that are being used.
"hate crime" is simply a short hand for "crimes committed because of the perpetrator's hate against certain group", it's not like every term needs to be so excruciatingly self explanatory to that degree. It's an argument that serves only as a tool for rhetorical obfuscation.
Chicago is a Majority Minority city with less than 30% of the population White. Meanwhile, 70% of the Chicago police department is White. That Chicago PD would want to hide hate crimes is unsurprising, especially when you remember that TWICE in the last thirty years, the Chicago
In 2007 I allowed a friend of a friend to stay in my apartment for 200 for a month while I was away visiting family. He carved swastikas on my wall, bed, shower curtain, refrigerator, bookshelves, and more. He broke the front door, and went through my picture albums, stabbing all the childhood photos of me in the face. He sent me a scary letter in badly written German in red ink and checked himself into a mental hospital. In the envelope he included cut outs of Mel Gibsons pictures. I'm Jewish. I was evicted as a result of his actions and reported the incident to the police. They refused to prosecute this as a hate crime despite me asking them do so and, well, the obvious.
Ummm wtf??? That is really shitty, but you put alot of trust in somebody you didn’t know. I hope that is a lesson you have At least learned from. Most people will mistake your Kindness for Weakness. Remember that.
@@brianpj5860 In 2007 I was 23. I was a lot more trusting and naive. I am 38 now, and also just became a mother. I definitely am not as trusting or naive now. I trust the police even less. What's interesting is that this was only the first antisemitic experience I had in Boston. I left the city in 2018 after being doxxed and assaulted by MAGA cultists.
The police terrify me. It’s not what they are likely to do to me (I’m white and live in a reasonably affluent neighborhood) It’s what they are doing to the country.
I am sorry to say this, you won’t be safe from long. (This implies I will attack you, I will not. I have just seen more videos of the Police accosting white people)
I am white and live in an affluent neighborhood; I am terrified of what they’ll do to me and everyone else. (I’m not disagreeing with you, but it helps the channel if we discuss in the comments)
Same here. What if they execute a no-knock warrant but get the house wrong? The defiance and weaponized incompetency within the police are infuriating.
Same, fascists never run out of enemies. If the police didn't have racial and sexual minorities to harass and ignore they would make up excises to harass everyone else: which is why instead of waiting to be the next on the list: fascists and their lists must be destroyed.
Don't be...Unfortunately, there will always be bad people working in positions that they shouldn't be... don't think all cops are the same, because that is just not true.
A direct example of this in my country was the 2016 Gangnam Station murder. The CCTV showed that the killer hid himself when men used the bathroom, and only attacked when a woman (the victim) showed up. He even said that he killed some random woman because he always felt "ignored" by women, essentially admitting that it was a hate crime. And yet the police went out of their way to claim that the crime was in no way motivated by misogyny (instead they blamed it on mental illness, obviously). Conservative media and politicians justify such reluctance on the excuse that they don't want to flame "a war of the sexes," in other words they assume that admitting the existence of misogyny-motivated crimes and discrimination will turn women into "man-haters." Which is rich coming from them since they're the ones who constantly instigate "a war of the sexes," except it encourages men to hate and despise women, or pitting women against other women.
There have absolutely been pics of cops at fascist protests, outside of uniform as one if the protesters. It was a semi common thing in 2015-2017, and I remember one Sargent in a large precinct specifically being caught posing with a bunch of Proud Boys at a protest, and being caught by people in his community because of his very specific tattoos. One guess what happened to him after he was caught.
06:55: "The mere categorisation of some crimes as 'hate crimes is a violation is the social hierarchy they perceive as 'true equality'." I watched this entire piece thinking of that old _South Park_ episode where - as written by open libertarians Trey Parker & Matt Stone - they lesson at the end is that using the "hate crime" label is somehow harmful to the very thought of justice. 🙄 The very sort of thing you'd expect from two white guys who deny climate change.
It's all fart jokes and middle school caliber attempts at 'satire' IMO. Most everything they do can be summarized by ' because they're white libertarians'.
Great video! I'm an analyst and I just made a video looking at the NIBRS data for my state. Not only did I find that EVERY police department in Oregon has a racial bias against black people, but more interestingly I found that the higher the percentage of black people in a city, the higher the racial bias. So not only are Oregon cops in general racist, but the more black people they see, the more racist they are.
IIRC my U.S. history correctly, what you're mentioning goes back to even before the founding of Oregon as a state. (There weren't organized cops back then, but there was a hella racist bent against any non-whites.)
I knew a guy years ago who moved to southern Oregon from Los Angeles and said that it was far worse being black in Oregon than in LA. Not only were the cops even worse, but in LA there were thousands of other black people for them to spread the harassment out on. In southern Oregon there's more cops in a given county than there are black people, so they focus on you.
as a Canadian i worry about now just the state of my own country, but also the fellow North American countries. lots of systemic, historic issues out there.
seems real weird there are choices to reinforce social-constructs like "race" by collecting statistics and demographics on "race"; but there is pushback by many of those same people against reinforcing social-constructs like "hate"
Police don't hide hate crimes. Police ARE a hate crime. Also, saying "All Lives Matter" is like when you have a family and one child is the absolute favorite. The non-favorite child points it out, and the parent says "No, I love you both the same." It's BS, and both of them know it's BS, but it's literally the least amount of effort that the parent can put into it to try and get the child to shut up about it, without having to actually do anything to fix the issue.
I'm grateful for this video, especially after being surrounded by people who dismiss the concept of hate crimes in general. Unsurprisingly, they're mainly racists or very sympathetic to racists
I got arrested when I was 18 for walking down a street. It was an avenue and all the young kids would walk it and cruise the 2.5 mile long stretch and go back and forth mostly at night and especially on weekends in summer. But cops started trying to stop kids so they started harassing and arresting people to deter them from going there. Me and a few friends were walking and a paddy wagon pulled up and a cruiser they frisked us and then cuffed us all 5 in total. And while in cuffs right in front of us discussed what they would charge us with. They went back and forth on a few and landed on disorderly conduct. even though we hadn’t done a thing wrong or broke any law m, let alone the one they charged us with. Since then I’ve hated cops and don’t trust them and never will.
I’m only four minutes in, but I’m going to hazard a guess that one of the reasons the police underreport hate crimes is because then the public would find out the police commit a disproportionate amount of said hate crimes EDIT: YUP.
15:43 "...and this is all news to you, think about why that is". I fear that for the TFG (Too-far-gones), their reply will be: "if I didn't hear about it that's because it didn't happen! So there!" They are terrified to leave their biased comfort bubble .
I used to think that adding an extra layer of illegality to hate crimes was pointless. Tracking them, certainly, we should know why people commit crimes and be able to study that data, but I have believed for a long time that extra punishment hasn't done the job as a deterrent anywhere it's been tried. It creates an extra charge for the people who decide on who gets punished, and making crimes committed almost entirely by white men more illegal didn't seem like it would increase the conviction rate, it seemed like it would increase the rate of police and prosecutorial nullification. That's the practical, cynical side, but I can really see the need for us as a society to be on record as saying these certain motivations are more heinous in a concrete way and back that up with action. This video has certainly given me some things to think about.
EVERYONE SHUTUP IT'S A NEW RENEGATE CUT. AND THIS ONE IS ABOUT RACISM AND COPS! DOUBLE WHAMMY. Seriously, though, this is incredibly informative. Thanks for putting the work in.
This is one of the reasons cop killers are not a big deal to me, guess it doesn't feel great when YOU'RE the one getting shot at for no reason other than who you are. If anything, it's just self defense. I figure, if it works for the cops it should work for them too, right?
I can’t say it enough, this is one of the most important channels on the platform and criminally underrated (for obvious reasons.) It is sad and scary that any of this has to be explained.
If we're not vigilant, it could infect everyone. Like intellectual herpes. It's almost specifically designed to seep into the cracks and prey upon sorta reasonable sounding (in exclusion) sound bites. Add constant repetition on the standard networks, and it behaves very much like an infection. Good on you for catching it, though. That means you're already ahead of many.
I been thinking, and idk if you're already part of whatever crazy left web there is, but maybe doing more community posts to move traffic could help the algorithm? I see folks like chill goblin, 2 leftist cooks, foreign man in a foreign land, color mind and a bunch of others promote eachother channels back and forth that really seems to help drive traffic. If you can get in with that, maybe slide into curiosity stream and whatnot? Like you fit so well and I don't get why there isn't more overlap/collaboration. Maybe there is more to it than I know? Idk love your stuff and I don't get why this isn't getting pushed more
I've seen him post in Beau of the Fifth Column's channel at least once, even offering to help him edit a video he mentioned wanting to do. That would be the perfect collab IMO, as they're both exceptionally good at what they do. But regardless of specific channels, I'd like to see some more back and forths with other good content creators, if nothing else then to get word out a little bit more, and draw from each other's audiences.
@@renegadecut9875 My apologies! I could've sworn it was you, or I would've kept it to myself. There aren't many channels I make it a point to follow (yours and his being the ones I follow most), so I guess it couldn't be a terrible collab, whoever it was. Sorry again for the mistake.
Question? So if a kidnappers and weirdos snatch up little black girls because they are black and therefore matter less to police, is that a hate crime? I think so.
Can we discuss what we can do about holding these departments to be more accountable? Tie funding to these reports? Another great video! Thought provoking and timely content as always!
The way things are currently structured, there's almost no way to hold them accountable. Pay attention to any police agency when a state leader mentions potential accountability (maybe, at some point in the future, potentially), and you'll see a rash of police straight up refuse to do their jobs. It's so common and reliable it's called the 'blue flu', and it nailed every time. Just a few years ago in NYC, when the then mayor mentioned looking into possible oversight, every single police officer at that press conference with him turned their backs on him. Later, that would blockade and shut down an entire bridge into and out of the city. Police know they're given more power and public trust than any other single part of the state. And they collectively refuse to ever be held accountable. We could've listened to all those folks who kept telling everyone that militarizing the police, giving them all this power, etc was a terrible idea. They've been saying since the 1980s. But no one wanted to listen, and claiming to be 'tough on (some) crime is the easiest way to get the wealthy or suburbanite white vote, so this is where we are. I have no idea where we could even begin to fix this.
Shouldn't hate crime reporting be the prosecutors office, not the cops? Final say on charges is ultimately their call. (Though I'm sure cops just fail to investigate hate crime motive all the time.) So it seems like the reporting metrics are barking at the slightly wrong tree, which is still bad/stupid. Unless I'm missing something... Also not to give cops the benefit of the doubt, but them being too stupid to use new reporting tech sounds tragically plausible lmao
That would give us the number of crimes prosected. The further down the pipeline we move the goal, the more hate crimes get filtered out of the final count
I just wanted to say that I am glad you are making political vidoes. I actually started following this channel because of that and I have appreciated the way you cover the content you speak about.
To the dummy who keeps trying to comment and re-comment and delete and post again "It was just the new system!" over and over, you should try watching the video. The new system is mentioned as contributing to the most recent missing data. The point is that police are not reporting hate crimes data EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. In huge numbers. Because of this, FBI data on hate crimes is always flawed compared to DOJ data and independent data, but FBI data is sourced when people want to downplay hate crimes because it's always the lowest and always an outlier. Police departments benefit from this deception, as do all conservative/status quo organizations. Watch the video instead of pretending you know what is said in it.
Stop trying to get around this.
It's not a "new system" this shit has been around for years. It's laziness. Governments are full of lazy people who could give a f... Places like NY or LA have the resources to do it, they just don't want to bother.
You triggered a lot of Conservatives/Republicans. They don't like truth that puts their voting base in a bad daylight. 😂
@@ashlirabid9614 You need a baseline of magical or conspiratorial thinking just to end up a conservative. But it takes a real dedication to ignorance to remain one.
You have to remember that conservatism is a very grave psychiatric disorder.
I was the victim of a violent hate crime. There were witnesses. The cop I talked to said it wasn't a hate crime because "there's no such thing as a hate crime against disability." The perp literally yelled about my disability as he sprained my shoulder trying to rip me out of my wheelchair backwards. If I had my seat belt on it would have been so so much worse.
When I called the station to make a complaint he said there's no such thing as internal affairs and I watch too much tv. The crime was never investigated.
Reddit ALSO told me it wasn't a hate crime at all because during the battery he yelled that I wasn't disabled and I shouldn't have a wheelchair if I can stand up at all. Therefore its automatically NOT a hate crime.
omg that's so awful 🥺😱
This is so chilling and terrible, and also sadly unsurprising considering g how many of the people cops murder every year are disabled folks. It’s also wild because ableist gatekeepers seem convinced that they are doing a good thing for disabled people by assaulting someone they don’t perceive as disabled. Makes me want to scream.
I'm so sorry. If something like that ever happens again, talk to a lawyer first. If there's a handicapped advocacy group near you, or a group that specializes in people with similar conditions, they might be able to point you towards sympathetic lawyers that might be able to help more of it were to happen again.
Lazy cops will let an amazing amount of stuff slide just because they don't want to do the paperwork. And when you add how nasty so many people naturally treat the handicapped, it's a recipe for disaster. Just try to find ways of stacking the deck in your favor more, just in case it were to ever happen again. And best of luck.
That is horrible, I’m sorry that happened. I’m not surprised about people thinking if a person can stand then they don’t need a wheelchair, though. It sucks that is such a common belief. It’s not based in reality.
Here in Germany we have the same problem: Hate crimes are frequently undercounted. Mostly because a lot of hate crimes aren't regarded as such by the police even though common sense would consider them such.
In the worst cases the police doesn't even try to find the perpetrators but rather harrass the victims. That was the case for the NSU murders, in which the police denied for YEARS that the murderers could be Nazis and instead alleged that the victims had been active in foreign organized crime.
And in 1990 there was an arson attack against a house inhabitant by migrant families in Bavaria. A little boy died. Police said they suspected one of the inhabitants of the house, but stopped investigating after two years. Only recently the family learned that there was actually a letter claiming responsibility by Neonazis that the police had obscured.
I mean, you guys basically invented hate crimes. Not surprised old habits are hard to drop.
... Germans invented hate crimes? Ignorant much?
The Germans didn’t invent it. A whacked-out Austrian man did. He did himself and the world a favor by committing aliven’t.
@@LazarusSlade not at all, the bible is a proud record of hate crimes. The Nazis only perfected them.
I served 8 almost 9 years as an MP in the USAF.
I served my community and country proudly. My principles were compromised and challenged while helping with riots and protests a few years back.. I saw things and heard things that were done to people by police and a small group of my guys.
I refused my re-enlistment.. I took an oath and I meant it with my whole heart. I protect. Not assault and harm civilians and protesters exercising their rights.. I truly helped many and saved lives.. im sorry.. now seeing this.. what have I been blind to.
You not only learned better, but you put it into practice in your real life. That counts for a whole lot in my book. I'm not sure how gung ho you might've been before, but at least you've moved past it now. Most people in your former position don't grow or learn like that, so you're still miles ahead of many. Best of luck, though, and I hope you don't have too much internal reckoning to come to peace with.
I used to think the hate crime classification was useless. This video changed my mind. Especially since prejudice based threats or violence can be a threat to the whole discriminated group. I never thought about it that way.
What did you think it was for? That's literally the whole idea behind the hate crime enhancement as a legal tool. I'm not trying to argue or be incrediulous, I'm just confused and curious. It was designed to punish someone who specifically targeted the wellbeing of a whole racial/sexual/religious/gender/etc minority group, more than someone who attacked an individual who just happened to be from one of said groups from day one. That's why it's an enhancement to existing charges.
Why did you think it was useless?
@@RevShifty the argument I've heard is that it's the government making extra bad to murder minorities but it's just ho hum if it happens to anyone else.
Edit: which I know isnt true
Thank you for being open to hearing out others. Most stick to their opinions and ideals and reject anything that contradicts them. This makes arguing pointless
@@RevShifty my thought process was that assaulting a non-minority person vs assaulting a minority person should not be considered differently.
But as the video points out, if the assault on the minority was motivated by prejudice then it does have implications besides just being assaulted.
I never considered these implications. I just thought assault is assault is assault.
@@RevShifty I used to think this too. I was ignorant and misinformed. I also grew up listening to conservative talk radio via my parents. If you follow conservative media, they actively downplay hate crimes in the news. They spread the narrative that hate crimes are just made up by liberals to stir division that otherwise no longer exists. They actually believe this, and I unfortunately was sucked into believing it too.
You and your channel is a beacon of light ✨️ please keep shining your light on the darkness of injustices. Thank you!
You're welcome.
I Know that Mitch McConnell is pretty much old news by now, but considering the damage he did by being the leader of the Tea Party days from 2015 till 2021, I would love to see a video about him. maybe he isn't as substantial in retrospect, but the banality of his cruelty stands out even amongst other GOP.
You do such a great job of succinctly describing these massive societal problems, thank you for your work
A friend from Atlanta got beaten for wearing a rainbow hat. Many slurs were said. He kept his bloodied hat as a reminder of the line that was drawn that night.
Ive really appreciated all your videos over the years. Thank you so much for the education 👏🏻👏🏻🥰
The idea of being attacked by someone because I'm trans runs through my mind everyday, it kinda hangs there within the subtle thoughts of my mind. I'm white and amab, so before I started transitioning it was quiet as someone invisible or seemingly intrinsically trusted. It certainly is an interesting change, though it becomes an odd thought that there are people that would gladly brutalise and murder me because of I am not I am. It causes a bit of paranoia about what people would kill or brutalise me if there wasn't the thin veneer of societal respectability. I feel like not reporting hate crime makes that appearance of societal respectability even thinner and so the would be threats are not "would be". Police don't actually do their jobs anymore as a way of whining about defund the police. The pop up chop shop or something at the end of my street might be proof enough- yes, the chop shop has gotten complaints yet nothing happens. I don't know that I care about that, just noticeable.
I've gone my whole life refusing to deal with police, and I'm a cis hetero white guy. Nothing good ever comes from their involvement, and the only thing they're any good at is making any given situation worse, at best.
I do hope you at least feel safe enough wherever you are. If you don't, you might want to look into Armed Equality and see if they have any recommendations for people in your area.
Thank you for teaching me so much. The work you do is invaluable to society.
Unfun fact: the cop who murdered Daniel Shaver, while he was on his knees begging for his life, gets $2500/month for life for the PTSD he developed after murdering Daniel.
One of the biggest "missed the point" videos I've ever seen is cops dancing to Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the name of."
Here's the first verse:
"Some of those that work forces,
Are the same that burn crosses."
It repeats those lines four times, and this line is repeated several times throughout the song. It's saying "cops are racist." The rest of the lyrics continue this, with a line about how cops justify murder.
Oh, that outro? You know the one. The singer is resisting arrest. That line is directed at the police.
Same as Trump flying in a helicopter blaring Fortunate Son. These people only k ow how to self own lol
If you're a conservative of any sort, let alone a dumbass cop, who enjoys RATM, then congratulations. You're a stunningly stupid moron who missed *all* the points.
This country is slowly repeating Germany’s history.
I've never heard that all crimes are hate crimes. They are reaching.
It's exactly the same thing as 'All Lives Matter'. It's obfuscation meant to distract from there real issue.
Thank you so much for your dedication and well researched work!
The way cops enforce hate crime laws feels so very liberal. Completely ignorant of the material reality and only attentive to the aesthetic. If the suspect isn't shouting "I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE OF YOUR IDENTITY" *during* the crime, it's not hate.
Let's go! The most criminally underviewed due to algorithm bs channel on this pee pee poo poo site
Hate crimes are the most popular hobby among the monster manual entry known as the Police Officer.
Poignant and well said as always
These videos are always fire, love your work man
Thanks, as always, Leon. This is not surprising, but still necessary.
this one was rough, Leon. thanks for shining a light.
I like your stuff. It makes me feel comfortable in an uncomfortable way.
Grim topic, but great work. I love how you break things down.
i can see a future video about the Coup attempt in Brazil , fuerza a los hermanos brasileros , good video
Another great video
Also, hate crimes suggest a persons aptitude to reoffend. If someone runs another driver off the road bc they were pissed off in traffic, maybe thats the end of it. However, if that same person committed the act as a hate crime, they are likely to continue the behavior after punishment and victimize new drivers.
Excellent work 👍
I agree with you completely.
Great video
Thank you!
Renegade Cut,
you're doing God's work, brother.
I hope you continue to make videos.
Comments for the comment throne!
Yap, thing to remember about police:
-The function is to protect the lawfullness and order of society, not its citicens.
-If the law or interest of high goverment is harm the people they will do so, specially if it implies opression.
-Watch out as changes in laws can and will affect you withouth you knowing about them (This is why maintain onself politicaly inform is important, learned this the BAD WAY)
-Police is a hiracichal structure with direct and indirect power, meaning a mayor magnet for people who want a position to abuse and organize corruption.
-If having a police recomendation make it wasier to get a police job this corruption is even easier expanded.
-There is those that underestand how the law is made following the spirit of it more than the letter, this are a minority, or silent inactive portion, not count on them to be the one you found.
Also dont forget the silent inactive is more likly to be the one doing as told even if they dont like it, if in a bad situation they will take the chance to bail on their "bad duty"
*Sees title* wait other than their own?
Great video but I believe the AA journalist's last name is Yam not Yan.
What’s the name of the intro song?
I have been watching your videos for some time (at least 4 or 5 years). I am pretty sure that you have mentioned (the social movement in the United States which could be described as) the cult of individualism--a rightwing movement that often includes (but is by no means limited to) Right leaning Libertarianism, a vein of the Right wing anti tax ethic, the works of Ayn Rand, the myths of the Old West and the Lone Gunslinger (as, perhaps, Jungian archtypes). It perhaps also might include the myth of the modern entrepreneur, the myth that includes the visual imagery of the Marlboro Man, the lone strong jawed hero typified by certain Hollywood stars such as Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, and many others, and etcetera... If you have not done a video addressing this particular sub set of the Rightwing myth of patriotism, please do so. It is a video that needs to be made and is right up your alley. On the other hand, maybe you did make such a video, and the ideas I list here are echos of a memory of a Renegade Cut production. Anyway, great video. 😊
ah shit, here we go again.
First. Don't hate.
I swear, Leon does not miss.
Thank you.
first?
awww, loading error. good vid tho
Many of these hate crimes are being committed by the police, which would also be a reason why they’re not reporting them.
And many of the ones not committed by police are enabled and/or covered up by police who approve of them.
Much the same reason why domestic violence is rampant, like it is here in Utah. They would have to start arresting their own.
True that
Not my quote, but there's a reason you never see Peter Parker in the same room as Spider-Man.
a dude in my state that was involved with abolition protests last summer committed suicide by hanging in a field... well, that's what the cops put on the certificates.
How does someone get hanged in a field?
Fokin ell, that is sad to hear
@@jacobnoelle8428 a tree in a field.
@@jacobnoelle8428 Pigs.
These summary executions by the state un the US are scary AF. There are so many stories like this that really drive home the point that the US is a dystopian empire.
My dad told me "all crimes are hate crimes" the night I was assaulted by two ppl who called me "f*gg*t" as they got out of their car. I had recently come out of the closet. Thanks, Dad
Sorry you had to go through that. That's so fucked.
I was almost a victim of a hate crime. Four guys tried to jump me for being queer but I fought back with a folding pocket box cutter I always carry as a tool and a means of self defense and was able to get away. The police treated me like I was the criminal and many family members members didn't get it. Always carry a weapon in case you have to defend yourself, especially if you're LGBT.
That poor single parent heisting that baby formula has a personal grudge against the Walmart, I'd say! Or they should.
That police can refuse to submit crime stats is why I grind my teeth at night. Accountability cannot come from within
9 out of 10 dentist advocate for defunding or abolishing the police.
@Mads H. Thorn And should not have access to dental and medical records with Veterans Administration.
The fact that local police are independent agencies (and not subordinate branches of state police) means there's ~19,000 separate sets of stats instead of
Seriously, it's like reviewing your OWN PRODUCT 5 stars.
@@MadsOcto7 that 1 dentist is related to a cop obviously
I’ve heard the “every crime is a hate crime” line from people i otherwise respect and it always blew me away because it’s so obviously untrue
My dad calls himself a "liberal" and has said that phrase many times. Also that "a person _must_ be mentally ill to [end others' lives], cos anyone with a healthy state of mind knows it's terrible." As in, that action is only possible by someone who is mentally ill. Smh. He also believes that "there should be an IQ test required for people to 'breed'" (he uses that word! :x ick!) Speaking of, when I was cleaning out their garage to move some years ago, I found a copy of "The Bell Curve". And it may have slipped out of my hand into the bin. Whoopsie! ↼_,↼ Oh, and more on "intelligence" (and ignoring culture, generational trauma, etc.) he wishes the very worst on "anyone who refuses to get the [Rona jab]". As in, that they get ill and don't survive as punishment for their "foolishness". I'm not anti, but that's just awful! Sure, some folks are terrible about it, like their Libertarian neighbours, who are big on Q and OAN and distrust "Big þhαrma" [yet buy 'percs' off their Libby friends] and _both_ refuse to get jabs _and_ refuse to mask up _and_ go out when sick... But they're a small %. I have a friend who doesn't trust the jab, but she'll mask up as directed, she stays home if sick, and does social distancing. I wish she would get the jab, but at least she takes care, but she doesn't _"deserve_ to [end forever]".
Idk. He used to "loathe TV", especially TV news ("why get it jumbled through a mouthpiece when I can read it myself straight from AP/etc.?") but now all he does is watch that sketchy stuff all the time, and when on the computer instead, reads Slate and known untrustworthy sources from our home country. I told him CNN was bought out and, though it had been centrist at best (really much worse, but he doesn't listen), it's been openly said that the goal is to make it "MOAR centrist". I happened to be over and their TV was tuned to CNN on the day they showed that upside-down, backwards graph of "rising crime" (data was "are you concerned about rising crime?", not any real numbers, plus a backwards time progression on the X axis?!)... I'm sad to say it, but these groups _do_ aim for boomers, and their tricks _work._ My parents still watch CNN religiously. And I can hear the changes in their views, molded by the TV. "Oh, good!" my mum exclaimed, interrupting me on the phone. "They voted to keep Trump's immigration policies!" ...WE'RE immigrants! Not from Asia, but she believed the B.S. being said about people from much closer to where we're from. She knows better. Or so I thought. But Reagan is her favourite POTUS, despite his... sketchy track record with A LOT of other countries. Idk anymore.
Sorry for the waffling. Cheers.
"every crime is a hate crime" is about as stupid as "All lives matter". It obscures the injustices.
@@mookinbabysealfurmittens your dad sounds like a fascist using dog whistles to not be called on his bullshit. He literally believes in eugenics. Definitely not a liberal lol n
I could be too empathetic, but unless you're a true rare sociopath. You do something terrible. Things will catch up with you, and eat you up eventually. Many soldiers in 1940s Germany turned to the bottle to numb the pain after WWII. You can blame the system. We should be empathetics to the pawns that are being used.
"hate crime" is simply a short hand for "crimes committed because of the perpetrator's hate against certain group", it's not like every term needs to be so excruciatingly self explanatory to that degree. It's an argument that serves only as a tool for rhetorical obfuscation.
No data from four of our largest cities is *wild*
Chicago is a Majority Minority city with less than 30% of the population White.
Meanwhile, 70% of the Chicago police department is White.
That Chicago PD would want to hide hate crimes is unsurprising, especially when you remember that TWICE in the last thirty years, the Chicago
If city/county police weren't autonomous, they wouldn't be able to withhold data
@@whishfulthinkinging Because accountability is a mother, for whomever is running your municipality's security forces.
@@whishfulthinkinging police will always be authoritarian, blue state or not
@@whishfulthinkinging They're liberal, not left. Liberals are quite fine with racism if it increases their capital.
In 2007 I allowed a friend of a friend to stay in my apartment for 200 for a month while I was away visiting family. He carved swastikas on my wall, bed, shower curtain, refrigerator, bookshelves, and more. He broke the front door, and went through my picture albums, stabbing all the childhood photos of me in the face. He sent me a scary letter in badly written German in red ink and checked himself into a mental hospital. In the envelope he included cut outs of Mel Gibsons pictures. I'm Jewish. I was evicted as a result of his actions and reported the incident to the police. They refused to prosecute this as a hate crime despite me asking them do so and, well, the obvious.
I hope he is no longer your friend
Friend? Of a friend.
Ummm wtf??? That is really shitty, but you put alot of trust in somebody you didn’t know. I hope that is a lesson you have At least learned from.
Most people will mistake your Kindness for Weakness. Remember that.
@@brianpj5860 In 2007 I was 23. I was a lot more trusting and naive. I am 38 now, and also just became a mother. I definitely am not as trusting or naive now.
I trust the police even less. What's interesting is that this was only the first antisemitic experience I had in Boston. I left the city in 2018 after being doxxed and assaulted by MAGA cultists.
@@brianpj5860 Nah, most people are appreciative for kindness given. This person was pretty clearly not the norm.
The police terrify me. It’s not what they are likely to do to me (I’m white and live in a reasonably affluent neighborhood) It’s what they are doing to the country.
I am sorry to say this, you won’t be safe from long. (This implies I will attack you, I will not. I have just seen more videos of the Police accosting white people)
I am white and live in an affluent neighborhood; I am terrified of what they’ll do to me and everyone else.
(I’m not disagreeing with you, but it helps the channel if we discuss in the comments)
I'm very white but I'm scared. I have one of those faces. They can tell if I think they're $cum
Same here. What if they execute a no-knock warrant but get the house wrong? The defiance and weaponized incompetency within the police are infuriating.
Same, fascists never run out of enemies. If the police didn't have racial and sexual minorities to harass and ignore they would make up excises to harass everyone else: which is why instead of waiting to be the next on the list: fascists and their lists must be destroyed.
Why would they report hate crimes when many of them are doing it in the first place?
If you take the cookie from the jar you aren’t going to immediately fess up when someone asked “why’s there a cookie missing”
Being disgusted by the presence of police has become my default state.
Same here.
As has mine.
Don't be...Unfortunately, there will always be bad people working in positions that they shouldn't be... don't think all cops are the same, because that is just not true.
As you should. ACAB means ALL COPS!
It's probably for the best. They should expect their food to be messed with as well. Don't want pubes in your McChicken? Don't be a fuckin cop.
A direct example of this in my country was the 2016 Gangnam Station murder. The CCTV showed that the killer hid himself when men used the bathroom, and only attacked when a woman (the victim) showed up. He even said that he killed some random woman because he always felt "ignored" by women, essentially admitting that it was a hate crime. And yet the police went out of their way to claim that the crime was in no way motivated by misogyny (instead they blamed it on mental illness, obviously). Conservative media and politicians justify such reluctance on the excuse that they don't want to flame "a war of the sexes," in other words they assume that admitting the existence of misogyny-motivated crimes and discrimination will turn women into "man-haters." Which is rich coming from them since they're the ones who constantly instigate "a war of the sexes," except it encourages men to hate and despise women, or pitting women against other women.
I remember reading about this case. Here’s to a future beyond policing, we deserve better.
i rmb hearing abt this too !! sk is very sexist (towards women) and very patriarchal
Why do you never see police at Facist riots? The same reason why you don't see Peter Parker and Spider-Man in the same photo.
@@andrewbloom7637 wait this comparison is getting fascist
There have absolutely been pics of cops at fascist protests, outside of uniform as one if the protesters. It was a semi common thing in 2015-2017, and I remember one Sargent in a large precinct specifically being caught posing with a bunch of Proud Boys at a protest, and being caught by people in his community because of his very specific tattoos.
One guess what happened to him after he was caught.
There are good reasons to be suspicious of the police
what the police would NEVER!! Police are good guys CSI told me so😭
/sarcasm
In all seriousness, many people want to believe cops are as well-meaning as T.V. cops. It's a comforting illusion.
06:55: "The mere categorisation of some crimes as 'hate crimes is a violation is the social hierarchy they perceive as 'true equality'."
I watched this entire piece thinking of that old _South Park_ episode where - as written by open libertarians Trey Parker & Matt Stone - they lesson at the end is that using the "hate crime" label is somehow harmful to the very thought of justice. 🙄 The very sort of thing you'd expect from two white guys who deny climate change.
I don't think they deny it anymore. That whole episode of the boys apologizing to Al Gore was their way of saying they were wrong.
@@cdonovan72 yea didn’t they literally write an entire season’s underlying plot line around reconciling for their own jokes about it?
It's all fart jokes and middle school caliber attempts at 'satire' IMO. Most everything they do can be summarized by ' because they're white libertarians'.
I knew there was a reason I lost interest in South Park after the first couple seasons! This explains so much.
@@leitmotif7268 that they did.
Great video! I'm an analyst and I just made a video looking at the NIBRS data for my state. Not only did I find that EVERY police department in Oregon has a racial bias against black people, but more interestingly I found that the higher the percentage of black people in a city, the higher the racial bias. So not only are Oregon cops in general racist, but the more black people they see, the more racist they are.
Well Oregon has racist origins. It was literally illegal for black people to even step foot in the state until 1926.
IIRC my U.S. history correctly, what you're mentioning goes back to even before the founding of Oregon as a state.
(There weren't organized cops back then, but there was a hella racist bent against any non-whites.)
I knew a guy years ago who moved to southern Oregon from Los Angeles and said that it was far worse being black in Oregon than in LA. Not only were the cops even worse, but in LA there were thousands of other black people for them to spread the harassment out on. In southern Oregon there's more cops in a given county than there are black people, so they focus on you.
I'm not even the least bit surprised to learn this about a state that was birthed by the KKK.
Gee. Sure is weird that the ones committing hate crimes aren’t accurately reporting hate crimes.
Sure is. Yep.
Yep sure is, absolutely nothing to see here move along
Cops gonna cop
Cuz police do the hate crimin' themselves? Probably.
Some of them, yes. That's the whole point of bodycams.
That’s why you never see a klansman and a cop in the same room :]
@@stupidass69420 what bout when there both
@@grmpEqweer So long as the police control the bodycams and the footage, they will just be a band-aid on the sucking chest wound.
as a Canadian i worry about now just the state of my own country, but also the fellow North American countries. lots of systemic, historic issues out there.
seems real weird there are choices to reinforce social-constructs like "race" by collecting statistics and demographics on "race"; but there is pushback by many of those same people against reinforcing social-constructs like "hate"
This is not only in North America but also in Europe and I am sure Australia as well.
You're one of only a select few channels with which I have all notifications active. Your content is absolutely excellent.
Thank you very much.
Police don't hide hate crimes. Police ARE a hate crime.
Also, saying "All Lives Matter" is like when you have a family and one child is the absolute favorite. The non-favorite child points it out, and the parent says "No, I love you both the same." It's BS, and both of them know it's BS, but it's literally the least amount of effort that the parent can put into it to try and get the child to shut up about it, without having to actually do anything to fix the issue.
I'm grateful for this video, especially after being surrounded by people who dismiss the concept of hate crimes in general. Unsurprisingly, they're mainly racists or very sympathetic to racists
They are also most likely to be xenophobic, homophobic, anti semitic, etc.
I got arrested when I was 18 for walking down a street. It was an avenue and all the young kids would walk it and cruise the 2.5 mile long stretch and go back and forth mostly at night and especially on weekends in summer. But cops started trying to stop kids so they started harassing and arresting people to deter them from going there. Me and a few friends were walking and a paddy wagon pulled up and a cruiser they frisked us and then cuffed us all 5 in total. And while in cuffs right in front of us discussed what they would charge us with. They went back and forth on a few and landed on disorderly conduct. even though we hadn’t done a thing wrong or broke any law m, let alone the one they charged us with. Since then I’ve hated cops and don’t trust them and never will.
Paddy wagon!? When did this happen!? 1925! Are you sure they weren't looking for Dillinger?
@@LazarusSlade most people in the uk still say paddy waggon, why what do you call em?
@@spliffyrodgers4266he’s trying to be funny, I’d say.
Thank you for your videos, keep up the great work.
Will do.
Love this channel!
Thanks!
Such a wonderfully concise explanation of what is and is not a hate crime. Well done!
great analysis. reminds me of three arrows "how societies become cruel"
3 arrows is very good
Nice vid, but gotta say the intro music is iconic. Every time I hear something close to it, I think of this channel.
It's just a track from a paid archive for content creators, but I'm glad people like it.
I’m only four minutes in, but I’m going to hazard a guess that one of the reasons the police underreport hate crimes is because then the public would find out the police commit a disproportionate amount of said hate crimes
EDIT: YUP.
15:43 "...and this is all news to you, think about why that is". I fear that for the TFG (Too-far-gones), their reply will be:
"if I didn't hear about it that's because it didn't happen! So there!" They are terrified to leave their biased comfort bubble .
All hail the almighty algorithm. And ACAB.
I used to think that adding an extra layer of illegality to hate crimes was pointless. Tracking them, certainly, we should know why people commit crimes and be able to study that data, but I have believed for a long time that extra punishment hasn't done the job as a deterrent anywhere it's been tried. It creates an extra charge for the people who decide on who gets punished, and making crimes committed almost entirely by white men more illegal didn't seem like it would increase the conviction rate, it seemed like it would increase the rate of police and prosecutorial nullification. That's the practical, cynical side, but I can really see the need for us as a society to be on record as saying these certain motivations are more heinous in a concrete way and back that up with action. This video has certainly given me some things to think about.
EVERYONE SHUTUP IT'S A NEW RENEGATE CUT. AND THIS ONE IS ABOUT RACISM AND COPS! DOUBLE WHAMMY.
Seriously, though, this is incredibly informative. Thanks for putting the work in.
These cops are out of hand.
Government knows this has been going for 100 of years its American its about control black people.
Because the majority of them are conservative white males who most likely engage in these hate crimes.
This is one of the reasons cop killers are not a big deal to me, guess it doesn't feel great when YOU'RE the one getting shot at for no reason other than who you are.
If anything, it's just self defense. I figure, if it works for the cops it should work for them too, right?
I've never mourned a cop in my life, and I'm sure as hell not going to start now.
I can’t say it enough, this is one of the most important channels on the platform and criminally underrated (for obvious reasons.) It is sad and scary that any of this has to be explained.
great video. i new there wer increases but i didnt know the police reporting situation. thanks for bringing attention to it
honestly shocked at how much rightwing propaganda has distorted my thinking on this topic like I didn't even notice. yike.
If we're not vigilant, it could infect everyone. Like intellectual herpes. It's almost specifically designed to seep into the cracks and prey upon sorta reasonable sounding (in exclusion) sound bites. Add constant repetition on the standard networks, and it behaves very much like an infection.
Good on you for catching it, though. That means you're already ahead of many.
I been thinking, and idk if you're already part of whatever crazy left web there is, but maybe doing more community posts to move traffic could help the algorithm? I see folks like chill goblin, 2 leftist cooks, foreign man in a foreign land, color mind and a bunch of others promote eachother channels back and forth that really seems to help drive traffic. If you can get in with that, maybe slide into curiosity stream and whatnot? Like you fit so well and I don't get why there isn't more overlap/collaboration. Maybe there is more to it than I know? Idk love your stuff and I don't get why this isn't getting pushed more
I've seen him post in Beau of the Fifth Column's channel at least once, even offering to help him edit a video he mentioned wanting to do. That would be the perfect collab IMO, as they're both exceptionally good at what they do. But regardless of specific channels, I'd like to see some more back and forths with other good content creators, if nothing else then to get word out a little bit more, and draw from each other's audiences.
@@RevShifty I think you are confusing me with someone else, which happens to me a lot. I don't watch Beau's videos, and I don't know him.
@@renegadecut9875 My apologies! I could've sworn it was you, or I would've kept it to myself. There aren't many channels I make it a point to follow (yours and his being the ones I follow most), so I guess it couldn't be a terrible collab, whoever it was. Sorry again for the mistake.
Some right-wing talking points are a lot like going to a breast cancer awareness event and saying "all cancers matter," "all lives matter."
Thank you for this video!
You are welcome.
Excellent work
Thanks for another banger, Leon
I see anti-police content. I like and share.
I've learned so much from this channel. It's great.
To be honest I'm numb to it today, but here is a comment for engagement anyway. Good stuff.
Stop being vague, what's your recommended course of action to fix this?
Question? So if a kidnappers and weirdos snatch up little black girls because they are black and therefore matter less to police, is that a hate crime? I think so.
Can we discuss what we can do about holding these departments to be more accountable? Tie funding to these reports?
Another great video! Thought provoking and timely content as always!
The way things are currently structured, there's almost no way to hold them accountable. Pay attention to any police agency when a state leader mentions potential accountability (maybe, at some point in the future, potentially), and you'll see a rash of police straight up refuse to do their jobs. It's so common and reliable it's called the 'blue flu', and it nailed every time. Just a few years ago in NYC, when the then mayor mentioned looking into possible oversight, every single police officer at that press conference with him turned their backs on him. Later, that would blockade and shut down an entire bridge into and out of the city.
Police know they're given more power and public trust than any other single part of the state. And they collectively refuse to ever be held accountable. We could've listened to all those folks who kept telling everyone that militarizing the police, giving them all this power, etc was a terrible idea. They've been saying since the 1980s. But no one wanted to listen, and claiming to be 'tough on (some) crime is the easiest way to get the wealthy or suburbanite white vote, so this is where we are.
I have no idea where we could even begin to fix this.
The only way to make police more accountable is to start throwing them in prison when they break the law . . . but that sadly almost never happens.
Is anybody really surprised? That's what they do.
"Every crime is a hate crime"
Bro have you ever jaywalked
I've gotten ticketed and had to go to court for going 1 mile over the speed limit...
Glad to see you didn't quit, enjoying the content as always. Great channel
Shouldn't hate crime reporting be the prosecutors office, not the cops? Final say on charges is ultimately their call. (Though I'm sure cops just fail to investigate hate crime motive all the time.) So it seems like the reporting metrics are barking at the slightly wrong tree, which is still bad/stupid. Unless I'm missing something...
Also not to give cops the benefit of the doubt, but them being too stupid to use new reporting tech sounds tragically plausible lmao
That would give us the number of crimes prosected. The further down the pipeline we move the goal, the more hate crimes get filtered out of the final count
Thank you, Renegade! Thank you so much!
I just wanted to say that I am glad you are making political vidoes. I actually started following this channel because of that and I have appreciated the way you cover the content you speak about.
Look who came back 🔙❤️, thanks 👍🏾 for the upload .
I released a video two weeks ago, and then two weeks before that, and so on. I never left.
OOHH. This is gonna be a real one.