But most people don’t know that. That’s the point of the article. Even conservatives greatly overestimate the number of deaths. Far too many people “buy in”. That’s the problem.
Did you? Not trying to put you on the spot, but did you buy
into the idea that blacks were being mistreated on a grand
scale?
Yes, some people do buy into it, but I suspect it’s people who
are trying to prove to themselves how much more “they care”
then “others care”.
I care about the black man’s plight, but I also understand
why some communities experience a different type of police
activity than others do.
Hi crime areas, areas with lots of homicides, areas where
there is a lot of overt drug activity, areas with a lot of
domestic abuse, areas with a lot of shootings, drive bys,
are going to get a lot different policing than a community
where those things are not happening on the same scale.
When officers pull people in these neighborhoods over, they
can’t display milk toast attitudes. They’d be overwhelmed
if they did, so they come off with an attitude.
It’s not hard to picture these dynamics.
It doesn’t mean that a white neighborhood with the same
problems as a bad black neighborhood, wouldn’t receive the
same type of policing. On the other hand, it’s also true
that an upscale black neighborhood wouldn’t receive that
type of policing.
So unless a person is an activist, they can probably understand
this sort of thing.