Quote Originally Posted by verminaard View Post
Quote Originally Posted by DirtyB View Post

So you can't find statistics to back up your claim, which means They must be suppressing it, which means it must be true. That's exactly the kind of logic I would expect from a senior member of Team Sexual Assault of Children.

Here's the non-peer reviewed paper you're talking about-

https://www.snopes.com/2016/07/15/ha...ved-shootings/

http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...nap-story.html
No, I said I didn't have time. I was out all day and still busy. It would take 5 minutes of googling to find the data. I know it wouldn't change your mind (or anyone else) anyways, so I am not in any hurry. The way human psychology works people make up their minds using completely emotional criteria. If data supports their emotional state then they support it. If data doesn't than it is ignored. It is a very rare person whom a preponderance of evidence against what they believe would actually change their belief. This goes for left and right leaning persons.

Anyways, if there was actually any hard data to support the narrative police were racist against blacks, especially white police, you can guarantee it would be published and featured prominently, considering the radical leftist bent of people that do such research. The complete lack of data supporting this narrative is damning in itself. All we have is the MSM cherry picking stories that support their narrative and ignoring the ones that don't.
So after reading this I went and read some of these links. Basically in a given encounter, blacks have only a small (~2%.. actually check for yourself) difference in being killed. So the idea that cops tend to kills blacks more often seems to not be supported very strongly. Yes, there is a bias but it is minor.

Where this falls apart though is that blacks are stopped and have far more encounters with police. A black guy is 2.7x more likely to be killed by a cop, but thats because they're likely to have 2.7x more encounters with cops.

So it is likely that yes cops are racist, but it doesn't really play out in the number of lethal encounters. In that regard, it would seem that perhaps BLM has it completely wrong.

This is a bit surprising to me, but not really. I never really was behind BLM or whatever, but all for police accountability. Unlike a lot of government loving rightwingers, I actually really truly believe we need to keep an eye on police. THere is no other position in society that has a greater disparity of power and education/experience.

I also look at how the Ferguson police depart operated. I look at civil forfeiture and so forth. Police really do need to be held accountable and not given some huge amount of power. It is nonsense. They retire in their 50s and are the most entitled group of government employees you will *EVER* encounter.