packgrad said:Civilized said:Pacfanweb said:
1100 Americans die at the hands of police each year.
Most are white.
Most, the police did nothing wrong.
The questionable ones are very, very few when you consider the millions of police/public interactions that happen every year.
And they are even fewer, when you consider that the police are generally dealing with bad people to start with when they end up shooting somebody. When you're chasing down criminals there is a lot bigger chance that it might end up violently. Nature of the job.
It's not like they only write traffic tickets and end up shooting 1100 people as a result.
There are almost 6x more white people than black people in this country so you'd expect 'most' police killings to be of white people. In fact, if white people and black people were equally likely to die at the hands of police, 6x more white people than black people would be dying at the hands of police each year.
But that's not what's happening.
Per capita, black Americans are 3x more likely to be killed by police than white people.
Per capita, black Americans are 1.3x more likely to be unarmed compared to white people.
Do the per capita on crime now. Then you'll see why your numbers are bs. Based on police interactions, white people are more likely to be killed by police.
Great point!
Black men constitute 6 percent of the US adult population but are approximately 35 percent of the prison population and are incarcerated at a rate 6x that of white males.
Black men's prison sentences on average are approximately 20% longer than those of white Americans charged with the same crime. They are also approximately 20% less likely to receive sentence reductions once incarcerated.
Black Americans are 2x likelier than white Americans to live in poverty and 2.2x likelier to live in deep poverty.
Black American families have average net worths 10x less than those of average white American families.
Black Americans are 1.5x likelier than white Americans to develop Type 2 diabetes.
Black Americans are 1.4x likelier to develop heart disease.
Black Americans are 1.3x likelier to be obese.
What are the causes of these massive outcome disparities between black Americans and white Americans?