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“BUT BLACKS COMMIT MORE CRIMES”: Scholars discuss conservative logic
Todd Beer on July 25, 2016"Since 2014 there has been renewed interest, concern, and protest regarding the police use of deadly force against unarmed Blacks. Various conservative commentators and publications, as well as comments on other posts to this blog, have implied that the reason so many Blacks are killed by police is that Blacks are more likely to be involved in violent crime. For example, in an article in the National Review, David French writes, “Moreover, racial disparities in the use of force are largely explained by racial disparities in criminality. Different American demographics commit crimes at different rates, so it stands to reason that those who commit more crimes will confront the police more often.”
Below is the transcript of a conversation regarding this issue I had with three scholars, all of whom have studied the interaction of police and the African American community."
The scholars are:
RASHAWN RAY, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland.
CODY ROSS, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
DON TOMASKOVIC-DEVEY, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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