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The Myth of Systemic Police Racism Hold officers accountable who use excessive force. But there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias
Wall Street Journal ^ | June 2, 2020 | Heather Mac Donald

Posted on 06/03/2020 7:40:29 PM PDT by Jessarah

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To: Calvin Cooledge

And the sheriff went on to become a US congressman


21 posted on 06/03/2020 9:46:07 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Calvin Cooledge

I was polite


22 posted on 06/03/2020 9:47:00 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Calvin Cooledge

I was polite


23 posted on 06/03/2020 9:47:00 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Calvin Cooledge

I was polite


24 posted on 06/03/2020 9:47:00 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

I just got tired of having my car searched after getting pulled over for rear tailight bulb out.


25 posted on 06/03/2020 9:47:31 PM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: Jessarah

Tucker states that more police were murdered by criminals than all the deaths of unarmed civilians of all races by police- Police are not hunting down Minorities like the left claim-

45 police officers were murdered last year-

9 blacks were killed- all but two were justified self defense by the police- so 2 blacks were killed unjustly, the police in those cases were charged and convicted- while 45 police lost their lives- and the left are screaming ‘racial injustice’ and claiming that police all over the nation are hunting down unarmed minorities?


26 posted on 06/03/2020 9:50:06 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: tinyowl

Actually thinking you should make a separate thread for Candace’s video


27 posted on 06/03/2020 9:52:38 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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To: 38special

Some ahole cop pulled me over in TX, saw the grateful dead sticker on the truck, said “Is that some kinda gang symbol boy?”

He demanded to search the truck, I said all your gonna find is some dried up
McDonald french fries


28 posted on 06/03/2020 9:53:15 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: goodnesswins

You were right, thanks, wasn’t posted ... just posted it.


29 posted on 06/03/2020 10:27:38 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: Jessarah

Of course it is a myth. But lies are what leftists use to control the useful idiots who make decisions on emotion instead of logics and facts.

JoMa


30 posted on 06/04/2020 3:21:57 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: Bob434

I posted those stats on facebook and got this reply. Why are there different statistics?

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/data-show-deaths-from-police-violence-disproportionately-affect-people-of-color?fbclid=IwAR0I3wIPoZ2h9nFTxQ8nXQbQqsmDT8UDg3QzE08jkyGaqpBixbg_lRbsChk


31 posted on 06/04/2020 7:33:13 AM PDT by Jessarah
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To: Jessarah

The main difference in the stats is one compares people according to race, and assumes behaviors of those people are all proportionately the same; and the other compares behaviors of people, and aligns by race.

Folks shooting at or fighting the police are generally treated the same. Different proportions of different groups choose to engage the police with violence.

Even here, with Floyd, where the police officer(s) responded wrongly, Floyd had been actively fighting with them even while handcuffed. On meth and pain-killers he was more than a match for them. Floyd appears to have been no innocent, though the response to what he was doing should have in no way included kneeling on his neck even after he stopped moving.


32 posted on 06/04/2020 7:48:31 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Jessarah

[[More than 1,000 unarmed people died as a result of police harm between 2013 and 2019,]]

Tucker’s numbers were compiled from last year’s numbers- the ones above are for 6 years- many more people were shot and killed by police while the last president was in office- numbers have dramatically gone down in the last few years- so much so that only 9 black and 19 white unarmed folks were killed- many of them justifiably

You also have to take i nto account that many folks who get arrested- are arrested while very very high on drugs, alcohol, etc- and will die while in police custody- so these are added to the numbers in that result from link you gave-

As well, some being arrested will have serious medical conditions, and may die while in custody despite being cared for

That is my guess- Tucker’s numbers were based solely on encounters where police had to shoot- and he specifically zero’d in on shootings of unarmed people both black and white- His analysis of the data was more specific cocnernign just one group of deaths- direct result from shooting

The link you gave claims ‘died as a result of ‘police harm’ which I’m sure they include everyone who dies while in custody of anything from drug overdose, to medical conditions even long after they are in jail awaiting charges etc- -


33 posted on 06/04/2020 10:58:03 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Jessarah

Thanks to everyone posting on here. You’ve clarified several things for me and help me get a picture of what’s going on. It’s too bad that pointing these statistics out can get you called a racist now.


34 posted on 06/04/2020 8:59:23 PM PDT by Jessarah
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35 posted on 06/08/2020 8:12:27 PM PDT by bitt (I shall not kneel for any person. Nor do I expect anybody to kneel for me.)
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