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It should calm the author to know being black makes him no more likely to be shot by the police: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-eviden

by deogeo 8y ago

It should calm the author to know being black makes him no more likely to be shot by the police: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evi... But if he's worried about being shot regardless of skin color, things look less peachy (compared to other countries): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_by_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

ianleeclark 8y ago
This is such a bizarre comment. We know that blacks are over-represented 2x in police shootings according to https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo... This happens because police have a higher propensity of interacting with black people. So, while LEOs have a consistent rate of shooting people regardless of race, black people are over-represented in police shootings: in 2016 28% of police shootings were against black people, yet they only made up 14% of the population. It's perfectly legitimate for the guy to feel angst about being shot. Edit: ignore following piece, I misread what he meant > But if he's worried about being shot regardless of skin color, things look less peachy (compared to other countries) This just reads like "Hey, stop aggravating for a better life, at least it's not as shitty as Brazil." You can't just delegitimize people's real, fixable problems because the same problem is worse elsewhere--in a land far away that the average person has so incredibly little power of ever affecting.
- deogeo 8y ago
  > This just reads like "Hey, stop aggravating for a better life, at least it's not as shitty as Brazil." Sorry - my intention in linking that chart was to compare the US against other wealthy, Western nations: ~15x more per-capita police killings than France and Germany, and 60x more than Poland or the UK.
  - ianleeclark 8y ago
    Ahh, okay. I read the "things look less peachy" to mean it's worse elsewhere. Sorry about that.

by deogeo 8y ago

ianleeclark 8y ago

This is such a bizarre comment. We know that blacks are over-represented 2x in police shootings according to https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo... This happens because police have a higher propensity of interacting with black people. So, while LEOs have a consistent rate of shooting people regardless of race, black people are over-represented in police shootings: in 2016 28% of police shootings were against black people, yet they only made up 14% of the population. It's perfectly legitimate for the guy to feel angst about being shot. Edit: ignore following piece, I misread what he meant > But if he's worried about being shot regardless of skin color, things look less peachy (compared to other countries) This just reads like "Hey, stop aggravating for a better life, at least it's not as shitty as Brazil." You can't just delegitimize people's real, fixable problems because the same problem is worse elsewhere--in a land far away that the average person has so incredibly little power of ever affecting.

deogeo 8y ago
> This just reads like "Hey, stop aggravating for a better life, at least it's not as shitty as Brazil." Sorry - my intention in linking that chart was to compare the US against other wealthy, Western nations: ~15x more per-capita police killings than France and Germany, and 60x more than Poland or the UK.
- ianleeclark 8y ago
  Ahh, okay. I read the "things look less peachy" to mean it's worse elsewhere. Sorry about that.