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One of the most pernicious myths about police shootings is that officers shoot unarmed black men at an alarming rate, when in fact just 2% of the people who were killed by an officer were unarmed and black. Since the beginning of 2015, law enforcement officers across the country have actually killed 33 more unarmed white people than unarmed black people.
While it is true that since whites comprise 76.3% of the US population and blacks comprise just 13%, black people are statistically more likely to be shot and killed by law enforcement officers; multiple scientific studies have proven that racial animus is not a factor in this disparity.
The most recent, which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019, found “no significant evidence of antiblack disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police,” and instead determined that “race-specific county-level violent crime strongly predicts the race of the civilian shot.”
In other words, it is the violent crime rate of a given race—not race itself—that determines the likelihood a member of that race will be shot and killed by a law enforcement officer.
https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2021/04/the-truth-about-police-shootings-in-america/
I’ve got to go stab some bitches, but I’ll break down the bullshit in this piece for you when I get back.
Be a dear and don’t chew up the furniture too much while I’m away.
Enjoy the soft bigotry of my low expectations where you are concerned.
A promise is a promise, so here is a nice tidbit for your continuing education
Most racially motivated police violence, violence against minorities however justified to put them and keep them down, does not involve shootings. Chokings, beatings, degradations public and private, all are far more common at the hands of police than shootings - especially fatal ones.
Shooting someone has the greatest chance of causing death out of the various forms of blue on Black or Brown violence. Cops also know that bullets are easily traced back to the very gun that fired them, while a bruise is just a bruise and invisible trauma is just a story that just contradicts the ones told by the cops on the scene.
The argument in the article is akin to saying Matt Gates has never been accused of raping actual infants therefore he must be a nice guy.
The argument you quoted is bad faith bullshit to defend bad actors and evil ends.
There.
I hope you were taking notes.
I noted that you did not address the point about shootings, but shifted it to a different conversation about police brutality. But that is not what the quote was discussing. It was discussing police shootings.
You can't just show it is "bad faith bullshit" without disputing the information that was contained in this excerpt, and you haven't done so.
I'm not saying it is indisputable evidence of what is claimed here, but you've shown nothing to counter what has been presented, and perhaps that is
only because you do not like the source of the information presented.
And, I get your point about a lack of evidence being found, not necessarily indicating that there is no racial animus applied in a systemic manner.
But to that point, you haven't proved it with anything other than your personal opinion, which in and of itself is not evidence.
The not-so-soft bigotry that you have displayed towards the source may be clouding your abilities to actually counter what the source says.
Consider the reference from the National Academy of Sciences was contained within the piece that stated:
"There is widespread concern about racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings and that these disparities reflect discrimination by White officers. Existing databases of fatal shootings lack information about officers, and past analytic approaches have made it difficult to assess the contributions of factors like crime. We create a comprehensive database of officers involved in fatal shootings during 2015 and predict victim race from civilian, officer, and county characteristics. We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers. Instead, race-specific crime strongly predicts civilian race. This suggests that increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings."
Further reading on that can be found here:
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877To be clear, examining a problem more closely, and considering various points of view while doing so is a responsible way to investigate the problem.
Be open to the possibility that things just may not line up the way you think they do.
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