BLM riots and posturing have caused a split between my brother and I, as he firmly believes that “The police are out of control”.
So I looked at the numbers. The deaths by race caused by police action are all over the place, as it is a fertile ground for sociologists, the least scientific soft science. So I used the numbers from Statista for 2017. In that year there were 457 white deaths at the hands of the police and 223 black deaths.
If you ratio that by general population which the media typically dies you get 2/million for whites and 5/million for blacks. QED for BLM? No.
In 2017 the number of arreste from the FBI (Table43) lists 5.6 million arrests of whites and 2.2 million arrests for blacks, and blacks predominate in violent crime like murder 5,000 versus 4000 white arrests.
My logic says police aren’t picking off budding rap stars at random, but are dealing with them in serious crime situations lethally.
So the deaths per all arrests for whites is 457/5.6 million arrest or 82/million. For blacks the ratio is 223/2.2 or 100/million. I don’t see that as significant; certainly not enough to paint the streets of the nation’s capital.
If there is a problem it is in the bigger population centers where the black population lives and where the “control” is in the hands of fully integrated mayors and police forces.
It isn’t a federal or presidential problem in any case.
Maybe so. But let's analyze why that's the case. Who wants to be a cop these days, given the poison environment? Do good people want to be cops? Why would they want all the BS that comes with it now? Ok, so who is left? People probably who don't have opportunities to do much else, who might wind up criminals themselves. I don't want to stain all cops, but we must ask, in general, why we can't get better quality people to want to be cops in the first place?
Candace Owens posted a good video on this subject — “Why I don’t support George Floyd” or something similarly titled.