Final-Fan said:
Aeolus451 said:
That first bit I won't take seriously because you know damn well that I understood what he meant and that I disagree with what he said.
Statistically speaking, certain races are commiting more crimes of certain types than other groups in major cities hence why they're being targeted by law enforcement over others. If they were just being targeted without being charged or convicted then it would be plainly a case of being wrongfully discriminated against. Of course, someone's race doesn't make them a criminal but certain types of crimes are commited by certain groups more than others. That's a fact but that information is used to help catch the persons responsible for the crime or at least help narrow down where to look or who pay more attention to. For example, the majority of serial killers are white males between certain ages. It would make sense for police and investigators to focus their efforts around that group over others. Frankly, I don't believe that all discrimination is bad, some discrimination is needed for certain things.
It's not a contest to see what group gets wrongfully discriminated against the most. There's no point in diving into that. We're better off dealing with wrongful discrimination in general and not just on one group's bit of wrongful discrimination.
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1. Then why did you say "Couldn't the same be said the other way around?" when that's clearly logically impossible?
2. But what kind of justifiable discrimination could explain why blacks would be subjected to car searches that aren't supported by evidence (as proven by the fact that they don't pay off as often)? What crimes are you thinking about that blacks would do more often than whites and have evidence of in their cars?
3. I disagree with the idea that we can't do any fix of discrimination that doesn't fix all discrimination equally ... although I do appreciate the irony 
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https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/table-43
table 43A shows total arrests for 2014 by race. Keep in mind that whites make up 62% of the US population. The percentage of crimes for each race often mirror the percentage of their population in the US except for a few cases. Asians make up 6% of the US population but they only commit 1% of all crime in the US in 2014. Blacks commited 27% of all crime in 2014 but yet they only make up 12% fo the population. They committed more murders and robberies than everyone else. You mentioned disproportionately, right?
Well, it seems blacks disproportionately commit more crimes than every other race in the US hence they're targeted by police.
