Black Lives Matter was created specifically to deal with law enforcement reform. Whites do not get to define what they stand for. There are black community organizations everywhere who deal with blacks killing blacks. And while whites like you guys have your opinions and some ran their mouths about All lives Matter and how more whites are killed by police, we don't see whites protesting white on white killings. Instead, we see excuses made about how guns don't kill. Whites do not always do what they are told by police, yesterdays armed standoff is evidence of how some whites think they are above the law. Blacks have been killed while in compliance with police orders. Police should not be killing unarmed citizens. Your opinions needs to be supported by facts instead of racial bias.
The 2019 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study published in The Lancet estimated that from 1980-2018, a span of 38 years, that police in the United States killed 30,800 people. During the same period, the study estimated that police killed 293,000 people worldwide. The study found that despite the U.S. having only 4 percent of the global population, American law enforcement was responsible for more than 13 percent of all police killings on planet earth.
"The burden of police violence fatalities in the USA is known to fall disproportionately on Black, Indigenous, and Hispanic populations. Recent studies suggest that over the life course, about one in every 1000 Black men are killed by the police in the USA, making them 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than White men. Black women are about 1.4 times more likely to be killed by police than are White women. Systemic and direct racism, manifested in laws and policies as well as personal implicit biases, result in Black, Indigenous, and Hispanic Americans being the targets of police violence."
Jordan Woods did a 10-year study of police stops, and it is considered one of the most in-depth studies on this issue. The findings were published in 2019 and are available at the Michigan Law Review repository website. Here are his words:
"To summarize, the findings do not support the dominant danger narrative surrounding routine traffic stops. Based on a conservative estimate, I found that the rate for a felonious killing of an officer during a routine traffic stop for a traffic violation was only 1 in every 6.5 million stops. The rate for an assault that results in serious injury to an officer was only 1 in every 361,111 stops. Finally, the rate for an assault (whether it results in officer injury or not) was only 1 in every 6,959 stops. Less conservative estimates suggest that these rates may be much lower. In addition, the vast majority (over 98%) of the evaluated cases in the study resulted in no or minor injuries to the officers. Further, only a very small percentage of cases (about 3%) involved violence against officers in which a gun or knife was used or found at the scene, and the overwhelming majority of those cases resulted in no or minor injuries to an officer. Less than 1% of the evaluated cases involved guns or knives and resulted in serious injury to or the felonious killing of an officer."33
The findings speak for themselves. The actual threat level to police appears to be less than the authority to kill police are given.
In 2006, the FBI warned America about the infiltration of white supremacists into police departments. The supremacists could do so by using people hiding their affiliation with white supremacist groups who apply for jobs in police departments. They are known as ghost skins. A ghost skin is a white supremacist who hides his/her beliefs to blend into society and covertly help further a racist agenda. These ghost skins operate in every occupation in American society, such is why claims of racism being in the past remain untrue. Even worse is that police are now volunteering to help white supremacists.
“Although white supremacist groups have historically engaged in strategic efforts to infiltrate and recruit from law enforcement communities, current reporting on attempts reflects self-initiated efforts by individuals, particularly among those already within law enforcement ranks, to volunteer their professional resources to white supremacist causes with which they sympathize.”
According to the American Heart Association, hypertension-related deaths in the black community increased from 171,259 to 270,839 annually from 2000-2018. In 2020 approximately 8,600 blacks were murdered. The numbers of blacks dying from hypertension are 20 and 31 times the number of blacks who were murdered in ways that “bother” people like you. Most of these people died from hypertension caused by the stress of living with white racism. Racism was outlawed on paper by 1965. That makes racism a crime. Racism is a crime that continues to be perpetrated against blacks and all people of color in the United States. According to statistics, at least 90 percent of those 8,600 murders of blacks were by blacks. If you use those stats the basis, at least 7,740 blacks were killed by other blacks in 2020. Those like you claim this is a number that blacks must immediately address. More than 270,000 blacks died due to hypertension in 2020, judging by the trends shown by the American Heart Association. If we are generous and conclude that just 10 percent of these deaths are directly attributed to racist actions by whites, over 27,000 such deaths in 2020 were caused by white racism. That means 3.5 times more black people died from stress induced by white racism than blacks murdering each other on the streets of America. That is white-on-black crime, and it’s a real problem that must be solved by the white community.
Multiple studies show that racism creates health problems that shorten lives. Unlearned opinions based on racial bias have no place in this discussion.
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