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"Blacks view police as the biggest threat" seems to be perfectly in line with what Black people are and have been saying for decades if not centuries. If only
by uoaei 6y ago
"Blacks view police as the biggest threat" seems to be perfectly in line with what Black people are and have been saying for decades if not centuries.
If only folks would listen to Black voices, they wouldn't be gumming up the conversation with irrelevance.
White on white crime is also much more prevalent than crime across racial boundaries. A priori you are much more likely to be a victim of crime by someone you know or in your immediate community. Because America is so segregated still, the conclusion follows pretty immediately.
- shadowgovt 6y agoIt's in line with what people have been saying, but as parent observed, it's not in line with risks. But this is nothing new for people in general; we spend way more newspaper inches worrying about terrorism (which kills a fraction of people) than traffic fatalities (which is 8th leading cause of death globally). This is, of course, as true as it is irrelevant. Because police can be 1/7th as likely to kill black people as non-police, and that's still far, far too many and a completely different category of murder (because the murderers are rarely punished, and are protected by the power of the state). Even if cops were 1/70th as likely to be the murderer of a black person, it's too many. Some kinds of death are both avoidable and morally reprehensible for a society to allow or condone.
- uoaei 6y agoAgreed, the comparison between who kills black folks is irrelevant. The comparison that is relevant here is who police officers kill. This page is a good summary of the relevant statistics: https://beehivemedia.com/dataviz/when_police_kill_in_black_and_white/ https://beehivemedia.com/dataviz/when_police_kill_in_black_a...