The use of classism in the police force.

[JAH23]

This is just a hypothesis I thought of today, so I am not making this argument based on any solid facts really. Just speculation.

Do you think that the police enforce and determine the harshness of how they will punish a law breaker based on an individual's class appearance and supposed economic status? For example, if police catch some white suburb kids drinking in the well-funded high school parking lot, and catch low income kids riding their bikes down the pot holed filled street smoking weed, which do you think would get the harsher punishment? I only ask this because from experiences I have heard, people who have more money and are in a higher class have gotten off easier by the police. I know a guy who, when he was fourteen, drove his dad's Chevy Corvette down the street going 150, and screeching to a halt at a red light right next to a cop car. He also had six people crammed in the car. Not to mention he didn't even have a driving permit. The police just drove him home. Maybe police take pity on age? But think if it had been black working class teenagers in the Corvette. I know racism is definitely employed by the police, but to what extent is classism?

[ContrarianLemming]

This is no only a theory, this is fact, and easilly proven. for example, white people in America do the majority of drugs, even if you factor in percentages and such, but who go to prison most for drugs? you guessed it.

there are plenty of statistical facts to show how racist police are, and how the war on drugs was basically a war on poor people, those places in th inner city are caled "ghettos" for a reason.

I'm sure some of my comrades will point you to the relevant statistical info, but i think we can all agree that it's no only a theory, it's a fact the the police discriminate based on class, the rich commit more crime then any.
A petty theif can't invade nations, he can rob someone and be shamed, a rich man can invade nations and knock over democracies, he will be appluaded, for this is spreading democracy

terrorism is a poor mans war, war is a rich mans terrorism

[JAH23]

See, I knew my socialist intuition was good :cool:

And, god, you are so right about the war on drugs. I know wealthy white teenagers who smoke marijuana and have gotten caught by the police- slap on the wrist. But I also know working class hispanic people who have been tracked down by the police just because the cops knew they bought weed from a dealer. I also believe marijuana is one of the biggest tools used by the police to suppress the working class, and legalization would be a huge step forward for the working class.

With the use of classism, is it because the cops know wealthier people can just pay off their citations, tickets, ect.