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Originally Posted by GGG
The deaths per interaction could be a case of Simpson’s Paradox.
. (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.
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Agree in part. But the selective enforcement argument doesn't statistically hold water.
I agree that the US should be heavily reforming Police to have fewer interactions over most things, and, get a lot more training to de-escalate and reduce lethal force.
But the real heavy lifting is diverting tax dollars from white schools to black schools, and communities.