RoshawnMarkwees
Assimilationist
Do you have evidence none of us have seen yet?thats all true,,,but the militarization exists beyond whats needed to get the job done,,,not to mention they are more likely to shoot at the drop of a hat when it isnt needed,,,I can post dozens of videos of them killing people instead of helping them which was why they were called out there,,,and entering the wrong house and killing the occupants,,,the real problem with the police is militarization not racism,,,What should really concern people is the criminality in the black population.
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Every year, American police officers have about 370 million contacts with civilians. Most of the time nothing happens, but 12 to 13 million times a year, the police make an arrest. How often does this lead to the death of an unarmed black person? We know the number thanks to a detailed Washington Post database of every killing by the police. What is your guess as to the number of unarmed blacks killed by the police every year? One hundred? Three hundred? Last year, the figure was nine.
That number is going down, not up. In 2015, police killed 38 unarmed blacks. In 2017, 21. What about white people? Last year, police killed 19 unarmed whites, in addition to the 9 unarmed blacks. We know the number of black and white people arrested every year, so it is possible to make an interesting calculation. The chances of being unarmed, arrested, and then killed by the police are higher for whites than for blacks. For both races, it’s very rare: One out of 292,000 arrests for blacks, and out of 283,000 arrests for whites. This is hardly what we would expect from the way the media report these deaths.
What about the people the police kill who are armed?
Since 2015, when the Post began tracking these numbers, the police have killed about 1,000 people a year. Every year, about one quarter of them are black. This is about twice their share of the population, which is 13 percent. Is this proof of police racism? No. The more likely explanation is that blacks are more likely than whites to act in violent, aggressive ways that give the police no choice but to shoot them. In 2018, the most recent year for which we have statistics, blacks accounted for 37 percent of all arrests for violent crimes, 54 percent of all arrests for robbery, and 53 percent of arrests for murder. With so many blacks involved in this kind of violent crime, that blacks should account for 25 percent of the people killed by the police seem like a surprisingly low figure.
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Roland Fryer is a black economist, and the youngest person ever to get tenure at Harvard. He was angry after the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, so he did his own research on the use of deadly force by police in 10 big-city police departments police killing. His detailed study of 1,332 police shootings — in which he carefully compared the circumstances of each killing — found no evidence of police bias. If anything, police were more likely to shoot at non-threatening whites than at non-threatening blacks. He said, this was “the most surprising research result of my career.”
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The Manufactured Crisis of Police Racism
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I don't buy that either. If you engage in a physical confrontation with police, you have a even chance of being killed.
The number of police caused deaths, is directly in proportion to the number of violent criminals they confront. All the research shows this.
And it is not super hard to understand. If you as a police officer, believe you are coming up on someone potentially violent, you are more likely to respond with violence.
in floyds case there was no reason to pull him from the car and 4 people hold him down for 9 mins 3 of which he was dead,,,,
and also I think race had nothing to do with what or why they did it,,,
You sound like one of the mob who have declared themselves judge and jury. More Ox-Bow bullshit.