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Shouldn't you be arguing for fewer police killings, period? Last I checked more white people were being killed by police than black people.
by dazilcher 6y ago
Shouldn't you be arguing for fewer police killings, period? Last I checked more white people were being killed by police than black people.
- tedivm 6y agoNot as a percentage, which I'm sure you're aware of.
- dazilcher 6y agoIndeed. Have you adjusted for police interactions though? How about poverty level and criminal history? We can play statistics all day, which is kinda my point. It's pretty obvious there is a bias, but not so obvious (to me) what the root causes are. Racism and second degree soci-economic factors are definitely on the table. Labeling every single police event as racially motivated makes no sense though.
- r00fus 6y agoYou're misinterpreting the facts. Black people are more likely to be killed by police - they're not more in number because they're only 13% of the population [1]. The problem is the power of police unions and qualified immunity which is a legal construct made to be abused. https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/07/16/the-research-is-clear-white-people-are-not-more-likely-than-black-people-to-be-killed-by-police/ https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/07/16/the-research-is-cle...
- dazilcher 6y agoI misinterpreted nothing: more white people are being killed by police than black people [1][2]. Which part are you challenging? [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/
- tedivm 6y agoAgain, adjust for population. > Results: Victims were majority white (52%) but disproportionately black (32%) with a fatality rate 2.8 times higher among blacks than whites. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/