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Friendly reminder that white people are shot by cops at a very high rate and yes, all lives do matter. Regardless of what the New Yorker thinks. Edit: Bring i

Friendly reminder that white people are shot by cops at a very high rate and yes, all lives do matter. Regardless of what the New Yorker thinks. Edit: Bring in the downvotes, I welcome them. It’s clear to me that white lives don’t matter to the HN crowd, but that doesn’t surprise me at all considering the main people who come here are white people from California who grew up in completely white society and now have a savior complex. That’s an American caste system nobody wants to talk about right there, the way coastal whites treat everyone else.

andsoitis 4y ago
> white people are shot by cops at a very high rate If you think that cops target white folks then you must probably be an avid supporter of reforming law enforcement.
- lampshades 4y ago
  Yes, I am an avid supporter of reforming our increasingly militarized police force, why wouldn’t I be? And to be clear, I don’t think cops “target white people” just like I don’t think cops “target black people”. Cops have an aggression problem, are trigger happy, and poorly trained.
  - andsoitis 4y ago
    > I don’t think cops “target black people”. This. Here lies the core of the disagreement. Data suggests otherwise.
    - andsoitis 4y ago
      From https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01846-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01846-z “By one estimate, Black men are 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police during their lifetime. And in another study, Black people who were fatally shot by police seemed to be twice as likely as white people to be unarmed” And “Data from California show that police stopped and used force against Black people disproportionately, compared with other racial groups, in 2018 (see go.nature.com/2bgfrah). A December 2019 paper reported that bias in police administrative records results in many studies underestimating levels of racial bias in policing, or even masking discrimination entirely” Etc.

andsoitis 4y ago

> white people are shot by cops at a very high rate If you think that cops target white folks then you must probably be an avid supporter of reforming law enforcement.

lampshades 4y ago
Yes, I am an avid supporter of reforming our increasingly militarized police force, why wouldn’t I be? And to be clear, I don’t think cops “target white people” just like I don’t think cops “target black people”. Cops have an aggression problem, are trigger happy, and poorly trained.
- andsoitis 4y ago
  > I don’t think cops “target black people”. This. Here lies the core of the disagreement. Data suggests otherwise.
  - andsoitis 4y ago
    From https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01846-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01846-z “By one estimate, Black men are 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police during their lifetime. And in another study, Black people who were fatally shot by police seemed to be twice as likely as white people to be unarmed” And “Data from California show that police stopped and used force against Black people disproportionately, compared with other racial groups, in 2018 (see go.nature.com/2bgfrah). A December 2019 paper reported that bias in police administrative records results in many studies underestimating levels of racial bias in policing, or even masking discrimination entirely” Etc.