Quote (thesnipa @ May 12 2021 09:38am)
"Police do not kill blacks at a disproportionate rate." IS A LIE. plain and simple.
there's may be justifications for the disproportionate rate, but the rate exists. plain and simple.
also, people pointing out violent crime rates, poverty, and other justifications for the rate strawmans reform proponents into thinking "just fix police killing us and that's it". reformers want to address underlying causes, from poverty, to drug addiction in poor communities, to racial biases, to housing issues leading to homelessness, etc etc etc.
Imagine if blacks made up 5% of arrests, and represented 13% of deaths. Would you say that their death rate is "proportional", even though they were more than twice as likely to die per encounter? That makes absolutely no sense. It's just an incorrect way of looking at the situation.
Blacks are killed proportional to their share of overall arrests. They live in high-crime neighborhoods. They make up a disproportionate share of murder victims, and most murders are intraracial.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/We should ask why American police kill so many people (comparatively) and seek to reduce it via reform. But it is clearly not driven by racial prejudice among police.