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Topic	Why is it unpopular opinion to say not all cops are bad
Patchwork 06/07/20 8:53:58 AM #33:	nemu posted... That's indicative of an issue. It's not indicative of a major percentage of police being bad people. If you're going to claim "most of X is Y", provide statistics or you're just talking out of your ass. Numbers are racist. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883 In case theres a paywall, some tidbits: ...This charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and remains so today. However sickening the video of Floyds arrest, it isnt representative of the 375 million annual contacts that police officers have with civilians. A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions. In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population. The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines unarmed broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. --- The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. <cite>Patchwork posted [p:940306488] in Why is it ... [t:78752390]...</cite> <quote>nemu posted... </cite> <quote>That's indicative of an issue. It's not indicative of a major percentage of police being bad people. If you're going to claim "most of X is Y", provide statistics or you're just talking out of your ass.</quote> Numbers are racist. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883 In case theres a paywall, some tidbits: ...This charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and remains so today. However sickening the video of Floyds arrest, it isnt representative of the 375 million annual contacts that police officers have with civilians. A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions. In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population. The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines unarmed broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. --- The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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