taking over

The city population is pretty evenly divided between whites, blacks, and hispanics with whites a few percentage points over the other two groups.  Beagles is wondering why the majority of the Chicago police are white.  Well I have to believe that Beagles is going by his taking over theory that most of politics is a matter of the different ethnic groups fighting to take over each other.

It's a stupid theory.  It's not what is going on.  The blacks and the hispanics did not get together once the whites were in the minority and take over the police department, because that is not what people do.  Nor does a black mayor pack the force with black people as a way of taking over.  Currently our mayor is a black lesbian, does Beagles expect all the new hires to be black lesbians?

It was a crowded primary, about a dozen candidates.  The two leaders, both black women, who had less than 20 percent of the vote each went on to the runoff.  If you look at the map of the voting  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chicago_mayoral_election#/media/File:Chicago_mayoral_election,_2019_first_round_results.svg  You will see that it follows the typical pattern: The T of the west south sides goes to the blacks.  The V of the northwest and southwest sides goes to the hispanics.  To the west are the conservative whites of the bungalow belt and to the east us lakeside liberals.

Well not exactly and that is because all whites did not vote for white candidates and all blacks did not vote for black candidates and all hispanics did not vote for hispanic candidates, because most people were not thinking that they had to vote for people of their ethnicity in order to keep other ethnicities from taking over, they are taking other things into account.  

The majority of cops are white because they always have been.  A lot of times it is passed on through families and that keeps it white, also there are standards for getting into the police academy which blacks and hispanics have a harder time meeting because in general they are poorer than whites.  The unions are made up of mostly white cops who want to turn their jobs over to their kids, and yes, many of them are racist and just plain don't like black people.

You have to live in the city to be a cop or a fireman or a teacher.  There are alcoves in the north and west sides that are heavily populated by city employees.

There are folks on the left and right that travel for these demonstrations. Probably a good number of them are up to no good.

Back in the early sixties the white people who went down to freedom ride were called outside agitators.  The inference was that without them everybody down south would be hunky dory.  Which was true for the white folks but not at all for the black folks.

Oh, and happy birthday Beagles.