Phydeaux
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy >You see that blacks are stopped at rates twice as great as whites yet whites are killed at twice the rate of blacks - what does that say about police brutality?< Killed by whom? I can't make sense of this statement. My fourth link on post 106 contains the following statement: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, between 1999 and 2011, 2,151 whites died as a result of being shot by police compared to 1,130 blacks. So despite blacks being stopped by police 2.5 times as frequently as whites, they are killed half as often. In other words, when you compare death rates per police stop, whites are 5 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a black. The whole point of BLM is to protest alleged police brutality, when, in reality, it should be WHITES protesting. This is why you have to stop watching trash news sources like MSNBC and CNN. quote:
Let me just say categorically: I don't think the police should be in the business of shooting unarmed civilians. Yet, the police can largely do it with impunity. That's a problem, and its not an easy situation to address. I agree that police should not be able to shoot people with impunity. And I am going to turn your world upside down, one more time. Police brutality like this is EXACTLY why police unions are a huge problem. Unions, like teachers, have negotiated grievance procedures that are so heinous that it is almost impossible to to dismiss the few bad apples. In most large cities it takes no less than 2 years to negotiate the firing process -with more than a dozen hearings. All the while, the bad apple is drawing full salary, and typically not working. This is another example where democrats have put the concerns of their members (unions) ahead of the public good. Now, that said, I do want to stick up for the police here. Roughly 400 people are killed a year. I think roughly 10% of them are the murder of innocent people - call it 40 people. Its horrible. But the victims families have recourse - multi million dollar lawsuits are common. Does that repair the injury - no- it will never be fair. But 55 people die on average to lighting, with typically no recourse. So it sucks - but I can't imagine a human designed system working better. 40 innocent deaths, more or less out of 40,000,000 interactions between police and the public at large. In other words, if you are innocent, you have a 1 in a million chance of being killed by police. And that number, I think, could be cut in half if you remember that it may be dark, the police may be in a bad section of town and nervous. Cops have to deal with drug addicts, gangs, sociopaths. Domestic violence. Be courteous to the police. Obey orders. Inform him of weapons. Keep your hands visible. Don't be drunk or high. Do these things and I think you would cut it down another 1/2.
< Message edited by Phydeaux -- 1/6/2016 8:37:05 PM >
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