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I'd say the resulting double standard is racist, but the individual police officers who directly perform the actions that lead to these double standards usually are not.
A police officer may, off-duty, be a full-on social materialist and realize that blacks commit more crimes because of the parralellism of race and class. That doesn't mean that on duty he will treat a potential danger as "the exploited." That's not his job. The very fact that blacks are the exploited class makes them, from a police officer's standpoint, more dangerous. One of the deeper hip-hop expressions goes "don't hate the player, hate the game." Only by discussing and destroying the causes of racial inequality can you eliminate this double standard.
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CB: What about the hip hop song " F the police " ?