dice wrote:the vast majority of police shootings involve civilians attempting to attack somebody. these tend to be the situations where white people are killed by police. and white people are more likely to be armed when killed
I'll take the bait and respond to Dice's post, hopefully for the benefit of other readers.
Where to start. First of all, black people are not more likely to be killed by cops. In fact, black people are 23.5% less likely to be shot by police in interactions than white people. See
https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf (for what it’s worth, that’s a study by a black professor from Harvard)
Second, as for unarmed killings, more unarmed white people were killed last year than unarmed black people. One might ask about the difference in rate of killing for unarmed black people versus unarmed white people. Well the studies consistently show that there is no evidence that unarmed black people are killed at higher rates than unarmed white people. Example:
When adjusting for crime, we find no systematic evidence of anti-Black disparities in fatal shootings, fatal shootings of unarmed citizens, or fatal shootings involving misidentification of harmless objects.
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/b44013_a5fc6189326849fab031bc3fedae7c3d.pdfIn fact, the data shows that to the extent there’s racial discrimination in unarmed killings, the discrimination is against whites:
For white officers, the probability that a white suspect who is involved in officer-involved shooting has a weapon is 84.2%. The equivalent probability for blacks is 80.9%. A difference of 4%, which is not statistically significant. For black officers, the probability that a white suspect who is involved in an officer-involved shooting has a weapon is surprisingly lower, 57.1%. The equivalent probability for black suspects is 73.0%. The only statistically significant differences by race demonstrate that black officers are more likely to shoot unarmed whites, relative to white officers.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf Third, for some context, cop killings of unarmed black people has been on a downward trend. Last year a total of 9 unarmed black people were killed. That’s compared to 38 in 2015. In fact, it seems like we were at 50 year lows in terms of black people being killed by cops (armed or unarmed).
For more context, for every black person killed in 2019, roughly 99.9% were NOT killed by cops and unarmed.
it is almost exclusively white men who commit mass shootings, yet they are often apprehended alive.
Not only is it false to say that white men exclusively commit mass shootings, white men commit mass shootings at a rate proportional to their share of the male population or less than their share of the male population. See
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-08-07/mass-shootings-arent-growing-more-common-and-evidence-contradicts-common yet he won't produce a video of a white person being indiscriminately killed by a cop. him calling others ignorant is rich
Of all the completely ignorant and baseless statements made in Dice’s post, this one takes the cake. It also proves my point that much of this racial divisiveness is stoked by the media. You see, the media never focuses on whites being unjustifiably murdered by cops. So for people like Dice (millions of people), that can only mean it’s because no such incidents exist!
Well that is flagrantly untrue. Here are a couple heinous examples:
Here’s the story on that murder:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/you-re-gonna-kill-me-dallas-police-body-cam-footage-reveals-the-final-minutes-of-tony-timpa-s-life/?
How many people have heard of Tony Timpa? Not many. Since the media barely covered his murder, it simply never happened to most people.
Another video:
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I’ll conclude with this. For all the nonstop consternation about how cops are indiscriminately hunting down black people, you would think that black people would benefit drastically if cops simply stopped patrolling black neighborhoods. That would be a logical conclusion if the premise were true. In fact, I’ve seen a number of people online advocate for the abolishment of police departments.
Well if you want any more proof as to how absurd that whole line of thinking is, just do some research on what happened to Ferguson after the riots there. The cops stopped policing there. Take a look at what the results were for that city.
