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Your comment is exactly why I find these topics difficult - responses come back disproportionally emotional and as you put it "hostile" in relation to (what I b
by bresqa 6y ago
Your comment is exactly why I find these topics difficult - responses come back disproportionally emotional and as you put it "hostile" in relation to (what I believe to be) a pretty neutral comment.
For one - I believe there is never sufficient justification for "onsite execution". I don't see how looking at convictions vs. arrests changes anything about that? We could compare it to convictions if you'd like - the gap might be even larger I believe.
My main point was that I hypothesise most of these issues are in fact due to income inequality more than anything else. It's still a huge issue - but a whole other issue - why that income inequality gap might be larger within the black population in the US.
Crime rate vs. number of persons killed is something that I find a lot more comfortable accepting then just blindly comparing the relations to the total population. It would be just as easy for me to question your detachment from reality or the lack of self-awareness.
- stonogo 6y agoYou said: "in 2016[1] of all crimes committed 26.9% were by black perpetrators" This is a wholly inaccurate summary of the link you provided, and even if it were an accurate summary does not justify the fact that black people are being killed by police in disproportionately higher numbers. The link you provided is an irrelevant distraction which contributes nothing to the issues surrounding police violence. What is neutral about that? And why would you even have an interest in being neutral about ending human lives?
- bresqa 6y agoThe entire point is "in disproportionately higher numbers" related to what? Just the entire population or their ratio in the total number or cases? If you believe the number of convictions makes a difference there - you're welcome to counter it with some numbers of your own. I do believe the percentage of arrests is the right number to compare it to here - as police violence happens exactly when the arrests are made. I do acknowledge that I used the wrong word "committed" where I could have written "arrested" - but here its just semantics and changes absolutely nothing. Why would I have "an interest in being neutral about ending human lives" - really dude? Beautiful stuff really.