How you contribute to police brutality:

1. Calling cops for non-violent crime, hunches, suspicious persons, noise complaints or problems that could be solved another way.
2. As a journalist uncritically repeating whatever police tell you as if it were fact. 1/3

3. "moving along" rather than staying to witness when police seem to be harassing someone.
4. Consuming local news, repeating sensationalized stories about crime waves in places you don't live on social media.
5. Watching/making fictional media that glorify police. 2/3

6. Encouraging your neighbors friends and family to "call the cops" ... "just to be safe"
7. Remaining oblivious to the low solve rate for violent crimes when the victim is black. Blaming the low solve rate on "the black community"
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