Posted on 06/16/2022 11:25:27 PM PDT by algore
A King County audit released Tuesday revealed racial disparities in arrests and uses of force, a lack of comprehensive data to analyze the role of race in officer relations, and highlighted several steps the King County Sheriff’s Office can take to improve its equity and transparency.
Black people make up 7% of King County, but account for 25% of the arrest in the county, according to the report.
“This means black people are 350% more likely to be arrested by the King County Sheriff’s Office on a per capita basis,” Gee Scott, co-host of the Gee and Ursula Show on KIRO Newsradio, said on air.
“The auditor took the raw data, but in their audit, they do say they did not look at the individual situation,” said King County Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall on the Gee and Ursula Show. “So we don’t know what the underlying facts were, and what led to the arrest or to the use of force. And I am committed to doing a thorough analysis to figure out what were those underlying facts.”
Cole-Tindall does believe that Seattle’s law enforcement can improve, and acknowledging the racial disparities is the first step to addressing this issue.
“I think it is important we need to start collecting the race data,” Cole-Tindall said. “But the other thing I didn’t mention earlier is there’s a county ordinance that prevents us from collecting race data, so that would need to be corrected.”
Cole-Tindall is referring to the King County Ordinance KCC 2.15.010.G. The King County Sheriff’s Office collects racial data on only about 4% of its service calls, according to the audit.
Hispanic residents of King County are 50% more likely to have force used on them, while Black people are 29% more likely to have force used on them. Meanwhile, white people are 35% less likely to experience use of force, according to the report.
“I did not thoroughly understand the methodology used by the auditor, we met with them a number of times,” Cole-Tindall said in response to the statistics. “And that’s why we need to do our own analysis that can complement what they have done. So I’m not suggesting that their numbers are incorrect. I’m saying that this picture is incomplete.”
Cole-Tindall also stressed that she believes her deputies don’t stop people based on their skin color, ethnicity, or socio-economic background.
The audit also referenced the amount of times forced was used; 619 times over a three-year period
Why don’t they administer drug and IQ tests to sort out those intersectional demographics for the benefit of Society?
““This means black people are 350% more likely to be arrested by the King County Sheriff’s Office on a per capita basis,”
remove all KFC and Popeye’s within a 100 mile radius, and stop selling basketballs in sporting goods near hoods’ as a start..
The report said that black people were arrested much more often than white people. But is this just because blacks commit more crime than whites (which is true), or is it due to racism on the part of the police? The report didn't try to address this.
Sorry for the typo / extra word. I meant to write:
The report did not claim....
Maybe these groups have a higher criminal content.
Exactly. But, to say this out loud is like saying a man can’t get pregnant. A fireable offense.
1 question:
Did African Americans commit more crimes per capita than other ethnicities?
If the answer is yes, then STFU.
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Negroes are 13% of the US population, yet they commit nearly two thirds of all felonies nationwide. Latins also commit crimes in a greater proportion to their population. There is nothing wrong with the sheriff office data.
It is just a matter of “culture”.… But everyone knows that.
I’m so sick of the idea that arrest rates and incarceration rates should meet some kind of exact match to the overall population percentage. That is not reasonable for a very specific reason: Different ethnic groups don’t commit crimes in the same proportion to their percentage of the population.
I’m fairly certain that the statistics reported by King County likely reflect an arrest rate that is lower than the actual crime rate.
We know the answer to this based on murder statistics. Black people commit more murders by a considerable margin. If we use murder rates as a surrogate for other crimes, everything falls into place, and we find blacks are arrested at about appropriate rates. Heather Mac Donald has written extensively on this.
Exactly. But the headline is a lie.
Made ‘on’ ethnicity or made ‘with’ ethnicity? See how easy it is to change one word and it completely changes the reality of the story?
And yes, the white men have to wear their ‘gold stars’ while the black woman does not have a physical symbol on her since we all know that designates her as different.
Richard Pryor said it best: “Thank God we got penitentiaries!”
One way to fix this is to start arresting white people in much greater numbers to balance the discrepancy. It won’t matter if those white people have committed any crimes or not as long as the numbers balance out.
This is already done in public schools. Obama instituted parity in punishment according to race.
They are being arrested according to behavior NOT race.
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