You cannot look at the incident in Missouri; another incident in Cleveland, Ohio; and another incident in New York City all happening in the space of weeks and act like there's not a problem."
Among numerous other flaws, DeBlasio seems have a lack of fundamental understanding of probability and statistics.
With over three hundred million people in the country, millions of black youths and hundreds of thousands of police officers, three fatal shootings of black youths by police officers in a matter of weeks (which I presume is what he's referring to here) may just be an unusual chronological clustering of such events, and those events may have received an unusual degree of national publicity. The more important statistic is the total number of such incidents over a longer period of time nationally. (Not trying to imply that the circumstances are alike in each case.) I saw a figure of 100+ deaths of black people (of all ages) killed by law enforcement nationally over an entire year, whereas at the same time 300+ whites were killed under these circumstances.
So although blacks were killed at a rate somewhat higher than whites by law enforcement - when considering the percentage of each in the general population - one can't logically deduce from these numbers that black youths are specifically targeted, as DeBlasio seems to have done, in concluding "there is a problem." Rather, DeBlasio is trying to take advantage of the recent well-publicized cases to gain browning points (no pun intended) with the NYC black community. He sees himself as the white Al Sharpton.
What all three cases have in common is three black criminals who refused to put their hands up when confronted by the police.
De Blasio is a dangerous radical. We can’t have a guy like this in charge of America’s largest city, he makes Rahm Emanuel look like a conservative.
Hang statistics. If blacks throughout the US are all angry over Ferguson, and are more confrontational with the police as a result, the likelihood of fatal shootings of blacks by policemen goes up.