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Originally Posted by Brando
You are correct that was honest mistake I was writing my reply to scorp when you posted this. You cannot just look at population disparities, while completely ignoring crime rate disparities. Black people committed violent crimes at a rate 2.8x of the rate of white people and they were also killed at the rate of 2.8x that of white people. The more violent police interactions a group had the more the likely hood of a police shooting. The question that needs to be asked is how can we help lower the violent crime rate.
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This is actually pretty easy and the cause for black neighborhoods being more violent is systemic racism.
Poverty is the #1 reason people turn to crime. If you close the gap between the upper class and the lower class, thing will improve exponentially.
Step 1: Do something about wage disparity between people of color and whites.
Step 2: Change the way schools in the US are funded. They are currently funded via taxes in their their school districts. This leads to schools in rich neighborhoods being exceptional, and ones in poor neighborhoods being borderline useless.
Step 3: Improve the quality of public defenders. The poor are disproportionately more likely to take a plea deal for a crime they didn't actually commit. This can be achieved by requiring all lawyers to take cases as a public defender, which would also ease the load on over worked public defenders.
Step 4: Defund the police. Now to be clear, by defund, I do not mean eliminate police, but reallocate a portion of their budget to social programs geared towards youth in poor neighborhoods.