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About 1000 people were killed by cops last year. 41 of those were unarmed. Of those 41, 9 were black
by corporateslave5 6y ago
About 1000 people were killed by cops last year. 41 of those were unarmed. Of those 41, 9 were black
- scarface74 6y agoMurder is a subset of violence....
- slg 6y agoThose 9 deaths are over 60% higher than they would be if the murder rate matched the demographics of the US population. The numbers you cite show the exact opposite of what you claim they show.
- corporateslave5 6y agoYou ever run the numbers on which race commits more crime? Or would that crush your brainwashing?
- Gibbon1 6y agoMost black people are completely squeaky clean and law abiding. Much more so than your typical white dude.
- onemoresoop 6y agoAnecdote: we, 3 white guys and a black dude driving upstate New York. Black guy is a geeky nerd and he’s driving. We’re pulled over by cop who wants to know what we’re doing around New Paltz. Cop intimidates/scares us to admit soemthing - he says he’ll bring a DEA team to search the car - when my friend(also white) admits we have a dime bag of weed (worth $20) in the trunk in his socks. The black guy doesnt do drugs nor drinks. We tell the cop its ours and he makes us throw it out and lets us go. Moral of the story: he stopped us because a black man was driving. If he wasn’t with white friends his treatemnt is likely to have been worse. I break the law once in a while in a minor way, few miles over speed limit, maybe more when i feel it’s safe. I never got stopped for it. If i was black forget it, I’d be to scared to do anything questionably illegal. It’s this bad, it’s this sad
- slg 6y agoI will give you the benefit of the doubt on how racially charged that statement might be and simply point out that we have no idea what the true crime rates are by race. We only have arrest, charge, and conviction rates. Those all start with the police. A bias in laws (e.g. crack vs cocaine laws), law enforcement (e.g. more cops deployed in black neighborhoods), or police behavior (e.g. more leniency given to white people) would all lead to those numbers being artificially high for the black community.
- SamReidHughes 6y agoPlease read the National Crime Victimization Survey reports and come back and update your post. https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245 https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245
- kmonsen 6y agoSources please
- jakelazaroff 6y agoWhy are you only counting unarmed victims? Does the 2nd Amendment not exist? Carrying a weapon should not be grounds for summary execution.