Black people are far more likely to be killed by cops. It’s racism. You don’t think white people high on drugs don’t do dumb stuff when the cops are around? Watch the show COPS and see. Just seems like the police usually find a way to NOT kill the white people.
A new study finds ‘wide geographic variation in the incidence of fatal police violence across the U.S.’
www.marketwatch.com
Studies like this are incredibly hard to conduct because:
1. Race of the victim (and perpetrator) is incompletely tracked (for better of worse).
2. Police reported data may be unreliable (like they will report that there was a gun or the victim attacking, and these statements also need to be evaluated and integrated into the data...hard)
3. As described in your link, the neighborhood effect can significantly skew things
4. What some right wing people love to state, that you need to adjust the data with the proportion of violent crime perpetrated by the population studied (this stat is very skewed, still you can rest your case if the disparities hold even after correction to this variable)
I also absolutely hate the concept of race reinvigorated by these movements. African-Americans, largely to our troubling history, have a lot of European ancestry and are incredibly diverse genetically. Many black people have closer genetic linkage to white people than to one another. This is why race is largely a societal construct.
Growing up black in Europe, most of the racism I experienced was explicit. It's disgusting, you deal with it, and learn how to let it go. In America, I may have had experienced explicit racism 1x or 2x total. On the other hand implicit bias (racism) is very common, and it can really get under your skin if you don't have the tools to cope with it. Now when the cops do it with you, those coping mechanisms stop working because of the uneven field. Cops know this and some enjoy their mind games.
