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It's a lot easier to get good statistics on police violence than on "excessive" police violence, since that's so open to interpretation. Assuming that associati
by hirundo 6y ago
It's a lot easier to get good statistics on police violence than on "excessive" police violence, since that's so open to interpretation. Assuming that association also holds for police violence in general, then we have to ask whether black victims tend to be proportionately more violent or threatening than white victims ... another hard statistic to gather. If not, then there's a good argument that racism is involved.
- MikeUt 6y ago> we have to ask whether black victims tend to be proportionately more violent or threatening than white victims ... another hard statistic to gather. A closely related statistic has been gathered, on violent crime perpetrators. By the police and FBI, as well as through victim surveys, that don't involve law enforcement, so are immune from bias due to over-policing that is frequently used to justify ignoring those statistics.
- SamReidHughes 6y ago> another hard statistic to gather. It's not that hard. Here are the statistics on police feloniously killed, over the past decade. https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2019/topic-pages/tables/table-42.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2019/topic-pages/tables/table-42.x...