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Interesting. According the FBI data in my previous reply, white men are far more likely to be driving drunk, statistically speaking. I guess we should teach cop
by charlesu 6y ago
Interesting. According the FBI data in my previous reply, white men are far more likely to be driving drunk, statistically speaking. I guess we should teach cops to pull them over far more often than everyone else, right? That would be a similarly logical conclusion based on the statistics.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoI'm not sure if you're being intentionally obtuse but I have my suspicions. Blacks are convicted of violent crimes at far higher rates than whites. I will not postulate on how much of that conviction rate is a self fulfilling prophecy on the part of the police (much has been written about this possibility by people far more qualified than me) but the practical effect is that the police do not extend the benefit of the doubt to black people, particularly young black men, nearly as readily as they do for other demographics and this extends to all contexts which is a problem for black men who are trying to exercise a right that (in some jurisdictions) police are the gate keepers of.