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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]

This. It is proportionate. And if slightly disproportionate, it's debatable how significantly. What does that mean? It means, as another pp said, Everyone should be concerned. I'd like to see most major metropolitan police departments in US step up and state that they are going to address unjustified force, do it, and then come back and show us the training they have done.

The other thing to keep in mind. It's 1,000 people. Two sides to this. That 1,000 fathers, brothers, sisters, friends. Who have 1,000 jobs and were contributing to society, and even if some were doing bad stuff, had the potential to change. They're in heaven now, and it was not their time.

But it's 1000. Should police go through more training and get help so this goes down to 800? Yes. Should the media and the public call it out? Yes. But let's not get in a tizzy that 1000 people are gone. When leading causes of death kill far greater. [/quote]

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