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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do not need any skill at statistics to see that if twice as many white people as black people are killed by officers but there are five times as many white people as black people, that black people are killed at a disproportionate rate. That's simple math.[/quote]

But it IS proportional to the crime rate for each race.  When you adjust for that, it's an equal number of white people as black people being killed.  I looked this up the other day but don't know what to say about it.  Not exactly the type of thing you put on facebook when you and a large chunk of your friends are liberal.  [/quote]

It's closer to accurate to say the odds of being killed by the police in a given police interaction are relatively equal by race, which probably surprises a lot of people. But I also think it's why some of the more sensible folks in BLM and other justice reform movements are focusing on reducing the number of status offenses, bench warrants for non-violent crime, etc., since the best way to keep more black men alive is to reduce the need for police to interact with them in a volatile setting.

I also think the total statistics probably mask a problem that is particularly abhorrent to the black community, which is the overwhelming feeling that someone like Castile would not be dead if he were white, because not only did he handle himself correctly, he went above and beyond, alerting the officer to the gun, which he had no legal obligation to do. I think this type of fact pattern is rare enough to get lost in the larger statistics, but awful enough to still infuriate the affected community.[/quote]

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