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I don't understand your point, really. George Floyd wasn't shot, but many others were, and the questions regarding excessive use of force and discrimination to

I don't understand your point, really. George Floyd wasn't shot, but many others were, and the questions regarding excessive use of force and discrimination towards racial minorities persists. The killing of George Floyd doesn't make it any less relevant, nor any less topical.

princekolt 6y ago
The point is that police shootings are just one of the many ways police uses excessive force against minorities. Did they control for whether the amount of force used was warranted? Did they control for whether the location of the shooting was a black minority or majority neighborhood? The ethnicity of the cop? It's too easy to lump all the data into one average and simply loose all the detail of an extremely complicated issue such as police brutality, for example killings where lethal weapons weren't used. "Police not more likely to use thermonuclear weapons against whites, blacks, study finds."
mcny 6y ago
My opinion is that the whole study is meaningless, an insult to human intelligence, and a waste of the paper it was written on. I don’t care what race the police officers are. It does not matter. An organization has a mind of its own. In fact, I’d argue an organization has a “life” of its own. Just like individuals, organizations have inertia, or habits, to keep doing things the way they are. In New York, I’ve seen reflective vests put on the dashboards of cars, some horribly parked. The idea is if you can show you’re a fellow police officer, you won’t get a parking ticket. In Overland Park, Kansas, I personally know of a ticket where someone got “reckless driving” while standing on the side of a road with a broke down car. The police appeared more than five minutes after the car stopped at the side of the road. A young woman moved to a new neighborhood in a new state and this neighbor, a police officer, called her by her full first, middle, and last name And told her to “be careful” as she walked out of the house to walk her dog. She insists she never used her middle name anywhere in person and the police officer most likely ran her license or something. Unless we are willing to disband and ban all current members of the police force from being a part of a new police, I don’t see how this study makes any sense.

princekolt 6y ago

The point is that police shootings are just one of the many ways police uses excessive force against minorities. Did they control for whether the amount of force used was warranted? Did they control for whether the location of the shooting was a black minority or majority neighborhood? The ethnicity of the cop? It's too easy to lump all the data into one average and simply loose all the detail of an extremely complicated issue such as police brutality, for example killings where lethal weapons weren't used. "Police not more likely to use thermonuclear weapons against whites, blacks, study finds."

mcny 6y ago

My opinion is that the whole study is meaningless, an insult to human intelligence, and a waste of the paper it was written on. I don’t care what race the police officers are. It does not matter. An organization has a mind of its own. In fact, I’d argue an organization has a “life” of its own. Just like individuals, organizations have inertia, or habits, to keep doing things the way they are. In New York, I’ve seen reflective vests put on the dashboards of cars, some horribly parked. The idea is if you can show you’re a fellow police officer, you won’t get a parking ticket. In Overland Park, Kansas, I personally know of a ticket where someone got “reckless driving” while standing on the side of a road with a broke down car. The police appeared more than five minutes after the car stopped at the side of the road. A young woman moved to a new neighborhood in a new state and this neighbor, a police officer, called her by her full first, middle, and last name And told her to “be careful” as she walked out of the house to walk her dog. She insists she never used her middle name anywhere in person and the police officer most likely ran her license or something. Unless we are willing to disband and ban all current members of the police force from being a part of a new police, I don’t see how this study makes any sense.