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> if you are black specifically your chance of getting killed in an interaction with police is higher. Again, not an expert. But, are we talking per police int

> if you are black specifically your chance of getting killed in an interaction with police is higher. Again, not an expert. But, are we talking per police interaction, or per capita, or of all police homicides? Pretty sure when I saw, far more unarmed white people were killed than unarmed black people per year, which per capita makes sense, right? But, isn’t total police interactions more inportant?

nathan_compton 9mo ago
Its very hard to get a sense for this. There are a few papers which indicate that on a per interaction basis, black and latino people are a few percent more likely to end up dead than white people, but that, again, doesn't necessarily mean that police are more disposed to escalate with these two groups. "Criminality" might be higher among some groups than others, and so the context of interactions with police might be different, but, on the other hand, criminality is to some degree socially constructed and is also correlated with economic hardship, which is racialized in the US (and most other places). I'm not really interested in defending some sort of per se percentage of unjust police killings, anyway. I think there is ample enough evidence that racism is still a pretty big issue in the US that the slogan "black lives matter" is at worst harmless and at best communicates something important.
- refulgentis 9mo ago
  If he posts back, don’t bother, he spent 2 thrilling days pretending the Grok image scandal was a couple dudes putting people in bikinis for a couple days. Swear to god. Then went full aggro political even when it was obvious I wasn’t blaming X.
  - SV_BubbleTime 9mo ago
    I like that you searched my post history because you couldn’t defend saying grok is in its “post-pedo” era. Hilarious. You can admit anytime you were talking out your ass, have no sources, and are mad that someone called you out on irrational Muks-hate.

nathan_compton 9mo ago

Its very hard to get a sense for this. There are a few papers which indicate that on a per interaction basis, black and latino people are a few percent more likely to end up dead than white people, but that, again, doesn't necessarily mean that police are more disposed to escalate with these two groups. "Criminality" might be higher among some groups than others, and so the context of interactions with police might be different, but, on the other hand, criminality is to some degree socially constructed and is also correlated with economic hardship, which is racialized in the US (and most other places). I'm not really interested in defending some sort of per se percentage of unjust police killings, anyway. I think there is ample enough evidence that racism is still a pretty big issue in the US that the slogan "black lives matter" is at worst harmless and at best communicates something important.

refulgentis 9mo ago
If he posts back, don’t bother, he spent 2 thrilling days pretending the Grok image scandal was a couple dudes putting people in bikinis for a couple days. Swear to god. Then went full aggro political even when it was obvious I wasn’t blaming X.
- SV_BubbleTime 9mo ago
  I like that you searched my post history because you couldn’t defend saying grok is in its “post-pedo” era. Hilarious. You can admit anytime you were talking out your ass, have no sources, and are mad that someone called you out on irrational Muks-hate.