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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
It sounds like you have some type of obsession with racial issues and are becoming a victim by living vicariously through other people. You might want to educate yourself so that you have a more balanced view of these encounters. Start by looking up UCR data, which is compiled by the FBI. You will see that more white people are killed by police than black people. Black people are disproportionately commiting violent crimes and assaulting police officers, per UCR data. [/quote]

This is misleading.  Yes, roughly twice as many white people are killed by police annually than black people.  But that doesn't take into account that white people in the United States outnumber black people by nearly 5:1.  Per capita, black people are killed nearly 3 times as often as white people annually in the US.

Additionally, poverty plays a much more significant factor in the determination of crime, especially violent crime than race.  And blacks are significantly more likely to be raised in poverty.  In the US, roughly 21% of children are raised in poverty, but when you take race into account, 46% of black children are raised in poverty, and 40% of Latino children are raised in poverty.  Only 9.6% of white children are raised in poverty.

In addition, the UCR data does not take into account racial bias in the system.  For example, white offenders are much less likely to be convicted under virtually identical situations as black offenders.  White offenders are much more likely to be offered plea bargains the black offenders.  And white offenders are often charged or convicted of lesser chargers under the same circumstances.  Due to the voluntary nature of the reporting by local LE, the FBI has admitted that there is room for a lot of manipulation of the UCR data.

Black and Latino middle class and higher are about equally likely to commit violent crimes as their white counterparts.  So the chances of a black suspect in a vehicle in a suit or uniform being violent are about the same as their white counterpart, but LEO are like you and because poor blacks in poverty have such a high rate of violent crimes, they'll treat the middle class black person in a suit and a vehicle the same as a black teen from the inner city.

You can make statistics say whatever you want and people like you, PP, make it show your racist bigotry.

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Talk about someone bending statistics to defend their bigoted, anti-police views. You dont even have a basic understanding of statistics, attempting to conflate different issues like poverty. Please try to be less hateful and educate yourself on police procedures and tactics.[/quote]

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