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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The overwhelming majority of police encounters go just fine.  I'm not saying systemic racism doesn't exist, or that individual police officers aren't explicitly racist, because many are.  But risk needs to be put in perspective.  I'm not saying to not coach your kids beforehand about what to do if stopped by police.  But try not to heighten anxiety among children/young adults.  1,000 people were killed in 2019 by police officers.   Out of millions of encounters.   And those deaths are heartbreaking and tragic.   But the risk is still incredibly small that it will happen to your loved one. [/quote]
How many unwarranted stops of Black motorists in 2019?
How many unlawful stop and frisks of Black people in 2019?
How many unnecessary uses of force on Black people in 2019?
How many uncalled for instances of pointing a gun at unarmed Black people in 2019?
You can’t give me those numbers can you?  Know why?  Cause those aren’t stats that are logged by the police but they are indeed real experiences that Black people have to deal with every single day and yes it happens to millions of Black people day in and day out.
Don’t try and downplay the risk of being black in America with bullshit stats.[/quote]

+1 Every single Black man I know has experienced one of the above. NYT has a decent article that tries to quantify some of what you ask above: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/racial-disparity-traffic-stops-driving-black.html

"Here in North Carolina’s third-largest city, officers pulled over African-American drivers for traffic violations at a rate far out of proportion with their share of the local driving population. They used their discretion to search black drivers or their cars more than twice as often as white motorists — even though they found drugs and weapons significantly more often when the driver was white.

Officers were more likely to stop black drivers for no discernible reason. And they were more likely to use force if the driver was black, even when they did not encounter physical resistance." [/quote]

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