@kevcvs57 said
It’s making headlines because of the disproportionate number of black people in the figures, I don’t know how many times you’ve been pulled up for ignoring this fact.
It’s so disproportionate that it’s looking likely that there’s a racial element on top of the policy brutality story.
But if you think it’s an issue, which your figures suggest it is, why aren’t you calling f ...[text shortened]... anised by white supremacist neofascist elements in the trump base and wider ultra right wing groups.
It’s making headlines because of the disproportionate number of black people in the figures, I don’t know how many times you’ve been pulled up for ignoring this fact.
This is what the author of the times article was writing about in 2016. Cherry picking when to use proportional statistics.
"A common response will be that cops kill more black people proportionately than whites. According to a survey by the Washington Post, whites are 62% of the population but were roughly half of those killed by cops since January 2015, while blacks are 13% of the population but were about a quarter of those killed. However, this isn’t the slam dunk dismissal it may seem.
For example, from the 1970s through the 1990s, claims that too many black people were on welfare were often dismissed on the basis that more whites were numerically—despite that more black people were proportionally. Moreover, many would argue that disproportionate poverty levels among black people render them more likely to encounter police officers in the first place—vastly unfair, but different from the problem being simply cops’ standing racist bias."
https://time.com/4404987/police-violence/
If you are going to talk proportionalities, what are some of the causal links that drove it to that porportion? How about Black on Black GANG VIOLENCE. 50 % of ALL Homicide is Black, that is extrodinaly damning considering they only make up 13% of the US population. GANG VIOLENCE! Literally responsible for over 2000 Black Murders every year...year after year after year. GANNG VIOLENCE is kept in check by POLICE PRESENCE. This movement is focusing on
200 of the
3000 Murders perpetrated on blacks every year. It can't honestly hope to do anything to recover a substantial proportion of those lost black lives as Police Shooting the central tenant of the movement.