This is why America was intended to be a melting pot: so that cultural baggage could be left behind.
Complete waste of resources just to demonstrate how progressive the city is.
It feels like you're saying "things should be this way, so I assume that they already are" rather than "things should be this way, so let's construct laws that encourage that."
But it could also be that such a redundant law is part of an broader acculturation process, and so has more cultural, rather than legal value.
I read caste bullshit as baggage to be left behind, but then you seem to suggest that the measure is a waste of resources. What's your point?
And of course skin color in the past that it still struggles to shed off (every US person of asian origin I've met while backpacking complained to me how its great the progress black minority receives, but they feel left behind and much more exposed to racism).
People really don't need much to look down on different others, I'd say its still part of human nature.
Is there any group in the US who doesn't feel, on average, that they are the most discriminated-against?
That's really a concept that manifested much later in American history. By no means was it intended to be a "melting pot" from the very start, or even the first 1/3 of its existence.
Crime rates are down, the city has grown astronomically, etc.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattl...
It's a "soft on crime" blue city. Crime doesn't go down.
Look at these graphs. Crime has consistently fallen.
The article you linked is discussing a recent uptick after a stable period of low crime. They've cherry picked the statistics to not show the huge drop in crime over the past 40 years.
Yes, crime is down in Seattle.
https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Police/Reports...
Seattle has less crime then it did 40, 30, and 20 years ago. The past three years were exceptional and the report does indicate increased rates of violent crime.
But we had a global pandemic, a contentious election, a spotlight on police brutality, etc.
I guess you can make the call, whether you think that's a trend or an anomaly, but when I look at the data I see us having a crime rate half of what it used to be, with an uptick in the most unusual years in a generation.
Police definitely lie a lot, and invest significant resources in outreach and PR, which we would straightforwardly call propaganda if someone else was doing it. The motivations are probably more complex than just what makes them look bad. And the mechanisms are probably more sophisticated than simply publishing completely false data in a report.
> Also do you really think the police intentionally misreport numbers that make themselves look bad?
But basically yes I do.