Quote Originally Posted by lewfather View Post
For the period 2008–12—
Persons in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000)
Persons in poor households had a higher rate of violence involving a firearm (3.5 per 1,000) compared to persons above the FPL (0.8–2.5 per 1,000).
The overall pattern of poor persons having the highest rates of violent victimization was consistent for both whites and blacks. However, the rate of violent victimization for Hispanics did not vary across poverty levels.
Poor Hispanics (25.3 per 1,000) had lower rates of violence compared to poor whites (46.4 per 1,000) and poor blacks (43.4 per 1,000).
Poor persons living in urban areas (43.9 per 1,000) had violent victimization rates similar to poor persons living in rural areas (38.8 per 1,000).
Poor urban blacks (51.3 per 1,000) had rates of violence similar to poor urban whites (56.4 per 1,000).

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137

Like I said, this is a poverty issue.
Ok. That doesn't support the narrative that police are unfairly targeting blacks due to systemic racism. This supports the narrative blacks are disproportionately violent criminals because they are disproportionately poor.

You can argue that blacks are disproportionately poor because of systemic racism, but that has nothing to do with the police, and throwing a jihad against police isn't going to solve any of this.

In fact, there really is no evidence at all supporting the "police unfairly targeting blacks due to racism" angle. All there is is CNN selectively showing videos of cops shooting blacks (and ignoring the 2x as many videos of them shooting whites) and building a false narrative from this.