Posted on 04/26/2021 12:04:07 PM PDT by Starman417
America is on the verge of anarchy. Every time a black man is killed by police the community finds itself on the edge and the nation wonders if an inferno is about to erupt. This reality dovetailed with a meme I saw a few days ago: “The Biggest Change Since Rodney King is the Video Quality”. While video quality has improved, one thing that hasn’t changed is negative outcomes from resisting arrest. Some of the names Americans know that demonstrate that include: George Floyd, Daunte Wright, Rayshard Brooks and Michael Brown. If the media were being honest they would characterize these encounters as what they were, black men killed while resisting arrest.
In every one of these cases and many others, the men who ended up dead resisted arrest, sometimes violently. According to policeviolencereport.org there were 268 black males killed by police in the United States in 2019 (the last normal year prior to Covid). Of that number, 212 or 79% were armed (allegedly) while 182 or 68% were attacking the police (allegedly). Of the 32% who were not actively attacking the police, most were carrying on other actions such as resisting arrest, holding weapons they wouldn’t drop or attacking other people. For comparison, during that same year the numbers for white males was 415 killed with 298 or 68% armed and 281 or 68% attacking the police. An interesting note about that comparison is the percentage of black males killed who were “unarmed”, 21%, is actually significantly lower than that for white males, 32%.
It’s difficult to get a complete picture of what’s going on in America by simply looking at numbers. Luckily we also have videos, including many of the death of George Floyd. While there is much going on in those videos, one thing that is clear from them is that Floyd was resisting arrest. One can make the argument that the police were too physical for too long, but the fact is, he was on the ground as a direct result of his actions. Similarly, Dauante Wright lunged back into his car.
Many people say that Floyd was subdued or that Wright wasn’t a threat, but the fact is no one knows. As the case of Rayshard Brooks demonstrates, things can go from calm, even collegial to confrontational in a split second. Just last week in New Mexico a suspect was conversing with a cop one moment and killing him the next.
The circumstance that America finds itself in today is the result of a purposeful manipulation of American citizens. The facts are that while black men are killed by police at a higher rate than their proportion of the population, they are killed by police at a lower rate than their proportion of perpetrators of violent crime.
The truth is, 700,000 police officers interact with Americans approximately 75 million times a year. Of those 75 million interactions, typically about 1,000 citizens are killed by police. That is a death rate below 0.002% per encounter, which means that 99.998% of police encounters pass without a death. Put another way, out of 1,000,000 Americans, 3 will die each year at the hands of the police. Compare that to 18 from texting while driving, 121 from suicide, 757 medical mistakes, and 2,000 from heart disease. At the hands of police: 3, and most of those were armed and attacking the police!
One of the things that gets lost in all of this propaganda is the job that the police do. They interact with citizens 75 million times a year. Someone stealing from a store, passing counterfeit bills or assaulting someone. There are domestic disturbances, auto accidents, speed stops, bar fights etc. In all of those circumstances and myriad others, police willingly walk into a situation with the goal of everyone exiting the encounter alive. They put their lives at risk every day for people who in most cases they don’t even know. Of course that’s the job they signed up for so it’s not a surprise, but that doesn’t make it any less courageous.
They of course don’t always get everything right. Police are human and make mistakes and there are bad cops and racists too. We've probably seen videos of cops behaving badly, but the fact is, overall, cops do an outstanding job. If they didn’t, 99.998% of encounters wouldn’t end with everyone emerging alive. There’s almost nothing in human existence that’s that successful, and that number is made that much more extraordinary because a significant number of those encounters include citizens who are armed, violent, callous and perhaps on drugs.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Most people can take good quality video with their phones these days. Police should consider themselves under surveillance at all times.
out of 1,000,000 Americans, 3 will die each year at the hands of the police... 757 medical mistakes
how many of the mistakes were foreign doctors on Americans?
Proportionately cops kill far more White men than they do black men. The obvious conclusion to this is that cops need to start killing more blacks. Or fewer White people.
Another point: when blacks start addressing the fact that black people kill 90% of other black people, then I will start to give a care about the small small percentages of cops killing blacks.
Still another point: if you look at FBI statistics over the last 10 years you will see a decrease in the number of blacks shot by cops. Obviously this is a problem. Since crime and thuggery has increased, we can only conclude that not enough blacks are being shot as they commit most of the violent crimes in America.
America’s “anarchy” is only a prelude to a totalitarian crackdown by the Ruling Establishment. That was the intention all along.
Why even bother to present facts? It should be clear by now these are purely politically motivated protests.
“700,000 police officers interact with Americans approximately 75 million times a year.”
On average, each officer interacts with an American every THREE DAYS? Must be lots of desk jockeys, administrators and back office people in the force.
Goes to a godaddy sign up.
Consider this:
George Floyd was apparently killed by a police officer while reportedly resisting arrest. That police officer stands convicted of murder.
Daunte Wright was killed by a police officer while reportedly resisting arrest on an outstanding warrant for attempted robbery. That officer has been charged with manslaughter.
Ashlii Babbit was killed by a police officer while illegally in the Capitol building. That police officer not only faces no consequences, but we are not allowed to know the officer’s name.
See the difference?
Some interesting commentary on “The Social Construction of Racism in the Unite States,” from the Manhattan Institute, which I’m sure has been posted here:
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/social-construction-racism-united-states
The article mentions the “Tocqueville paradox,” which comes from Tocqueville’s observation on the French Revolution that it resulted from bettering and not worsening of conditions, since people who start to acquire power want more and are more able to exercise power. (my definition)
I’d also add to it the Thucydides Trap, which posits that a declining power creates instability and cause for aggression by that declining power in order to re-establish itself or avoid further decline.
I see these ongoing incidents as a paradoxical intersection of black socio-economic rise with a “Thucydides trap”-like Democrat party desperately promoting “racism” at every turn in order to sustain itself. Above all, the blacks who are subject to “systematic racism” and “police abuse” are those who are not party to that rise and are thus the objects of the Democrat agenda. Meanwhile, many of the more educated and economically successful blacks are engaging in the Tocqueville paradox by joining this “struggle” despite the fact that their social and economic conditions have / are improved.
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