Comments on: On-duty police fatally shoot about 1,000 people every year

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 15:42:07 +0000

Let’s deal with surveys. There is no cost to telling a lie to a survey interviewer. Thus, four out of five black people think they will be murdered by a racist white cop tomorrow, and seven out of ten white Republicans think that Obama was born in Mecca.

Every black parent who tells you that they had to have ‘the talk’ with their son about dealing with the racist white police know that the greatest danger to their little angel is young black males. The best thing a black parent could do for the safety of their children would be to move to a lily-white neighborhood and never leave.

By: Senexada

Senexada — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:43:19 +0000

A while back I personally reviewed all 17 cases of unarmed black men, plus a subset of the more numerous cases of unarmed white men, that were recorded as shot by police in the WA Post 2018 database. For each case, I located and read at least 2 contemporary local news reports.

The result was a mournful glimpse at bad situations and bad decisions that didn’t fit “the standard narrative.”

My personal take-away was that the best ways to reduce this particular risk are to not wrestle with police and to not associate with felons.

A related observation is that the raw numbers (unadjusted for likelihood of police encounter) show the gender differences are larger than the racial ones. For instance, a white male is significantly likelier to be killed by police than a black woman.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:59:12 +0000

And of course, the distinct possibility exists that black suspects are more likely to resist arrest by white officers for racial reasons, although you can bet that possibility most certainly won’t be looked into.

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:12:44 +0000

“However, not all shootings of unarmed civilians are unjustified, and it is difficult to objectively classify these cases in a more granular fashion.”

The ‘orthodox’ bluechekist response to this would be, ‘irrespective of circumstances in reality what would rationally justify this or that outcome, the existence of differences in outcome at all necessarily demands increasing the social status of sub-saharans vis-a-vis the other cattle by various privileges, until such differences disappear and or reverse altogether’.