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Originally Posted by jayswin
It's already been covered in this thread but these viral "black people aren't getting killed at a higher rate than other races" stats are ignoring that African Americans make up 13% of the US population.
"MORE WHITE PEOPLE ARE KILLED BY COPS THAN BLACK PEOPLE YOU IDIOTS" is stupid and disingenuous.
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Is it, though? You look at other stats, where, while African Americans do only make up 13% of the US population, they are leading most of the other categories in violent crimes.
Why do they have more encounters with police? Because police tend to go/be called to where crime is happening.
Seems to me that if you want to stop Black/Police encounters, then there is a lot of social work that needs to be done first or at least perhaps concurrently. 13% of the population shouldn't be committing 50%+ of its crime.