Quote (bogie160 @ May 12 2021 11:37am)
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.
over and over your side, including in this post, pretends black people who call for reform not only ignore murder rates in the inner city, but also reduce reform efforts simply to police.
fringe BLM purple hairs who post an op ed on Huffpost literally calling for police to abandon the inner cities and imply this will work out positively are akin to Qanon idiots. who u tried unsuccessfully to distance republicans from just this week with a lazy "i dont see them talking about Q" (they just tweet Q talking points and theories) as MTG and others do.
when someone says "too many blacks are getting shot by police" you hear "just stop the cops from being racist and america is fixed" but what's really being said is "we need school reform, city code reform, police reform, gangs and drug trafficking taken care of, father mentor programs, counseling, food deserts addressed, and its a big uphill battle but overdue."
u shallowly use murder rates against people as a bludgeon who seek to reduce it themselves. shockingly tho barking at a city council meeting can have an impact but getting on the streets and yelling at crack dealers gets you shot.