(N.Morgan) Have you ever wondered what the police truly think about the citizenry?

Would you be shocked to discover that they consider you and I disposable people?

In the video you are about to watch, Nick Broomfield, an award winning filmmaker, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about his work.

He says that his current film, about the ‘Grim Sleeper,’ alleged serial killer Lonnie Franklin, is about ‘disposable people.’

The police used to use the slang term ‘no human involved,’ or NHI, to describe murder prostitutes or gang members.

They wouldn’t bother ‘doing proper forensics,’ and wouldn’t put too much effort into investigating the deaths.

There was an attitude that as these were disposable people, ‘it didn’t really matter.’

He thinks it is more to do with class than colour, those who have little political weight, people who are not regarded as ‘proper citizens.’

It is, however, seen particularly in black communities like south central, or Ferguson, for example.

He says that he’s ‘not sure the police has changed their attitude very much, I think their PR departments [but] I think the attitude of NHI still very much exists today.’

He believes that people feel the police racism in Ferguson could have happened across the States, and there is an ‘intrinsic racism’ in both the Republican and Democrat parties.

The political system in the US is ‘designed to disenfranchise’ minority communities, with possession of crack, something predominantly in black communities, there is an automatic felony conviction that excludes you from voting for minimum 7 years, whereas the white drug of choice, cocaine, would be a misdemeanor with no felony conviction, and he argues this has been the way since ‘the end of slavery.’

The system has turned against the people and now we are the enemy.

References:

http://rt.com/on-air

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