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Originally Posted by White Out 403
Stastically this isn't what's happening. What is happening is that black people interact with the police more. But per interaction they are killed less often than white people.
People are not having the right conversation and its really something to see.
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The deaths per interaction could be a case of Simpson’s Paradox.
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Suppose, hypothetically, that a white suspect is killed by police in one out of 100,000 traffic stops and nine out of 10 shootings. And imagine that Black suspects are killed by police after 20 out of 1,000,000 traffic stops and in 10 out of 10 active shooter incidents. In each kind of incident, Black suspects are killed more often than white suspects. In aggregate, though, the percentage is higher for white people: 10 out of 100,010 white people are killed vs. 30 out of 1,000,010 Black people, because the white people tend to encounter the police in more grave situations.
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. (The numbers in the article are for example of how it could work. Without knowing severity of encounter you don’t know if it’s happening or not and the data doesn’t appear to exist.)
Where I disagree is that people are talking about the wrong conversation.
Defunding the police is specifically being discussed in order to reduce the number of encounters Black people have with police.
If you look at the recommendations at 8cantwait.org, which research shows could reduce police killings by up to 72%, None of these initial proposals have anything to do with race.
The activists appear to be clearly having the correct conversations. You reduce the shooting of Black people by reducing the number of interactions they have with police and by changing police policies to limit escalation and violence for ALL encounters.