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I found his comment interesting but I don't know what to think about it.

Certainly cops and criminals have plenty of reason to get into each other's heads.

Maybe a better analogy could be the rift that exists between police and the black communities in many places. Definitely these people have a different perspective about things. There is definitely a hard core of criminals who are coincidentally black who are playing a "cat and mouse" game against the cops, but then there are a lot of blacks who have surplus trouble with the police as well as situations like

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/04/the-m...

where cops feel driven to do things that look brutal, maybe are brutal, but they don't see an alternative.



I think anything approximating segmentation of the population into "cops" , "criminals" and "us" (or "other") is a category error.


Are you responding to my comment?

If so, unclear what race has to do with my comment, or for that matter, the topic.


It's a clear case where there is a gap between a community segment and the police and also my original comment was about my own experience of what seems to be "hyper white privilege" in terms of grooving along abnormally well with the cops.


Root cause of this is not communication, it is cognitive dissonance theory and the power of authority.

To see an example of what I mean, watch the trailer for the "Stanford prison experiment" on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3XN2X72jrFk

And read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

As for "getting along" - it's more about selection bias than anything else; which in some, if not many, cases takes the form of racism.

It's an important topic to me, and I'd be the first to say I still don't completely understand it, or more importantly, how to fix the issue.




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