Officer in Georgia says to woman during traffic stop: "We only kill black people"

[Insidb]

Aeolus451 said:

Insidb said:

1) Unarmed black men are shot by police at the same rate as armed white men.

2) Black youths are shot by police at 21 times the rate at white youths.

3) There is a no discernible difference between the rate of marijuana usage of whites and blacks, but blacks are are criminalized at a distinctly higher rate.

4) The pay-for-play private prison system has targeted and unjustly incarcerated minority youths at a much higher rate.

5) Blacks receive longer and harsher sentences for the same offenses as their white counterparts.

6) There have been recent convictions of judges involved in these discriminatory activities.

 

This is the problem with not understanding the context of statistics: as they say in baseball, "a bloop single looks like a hard line drive in the box score."

if you're gonna make claims like that, where's your source?

1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/?utm_term=.75b068511a6e

2) https://thinkprogress.org/report-black-male-teens-are-21-times-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-cops-than-white-ones-72fb08a1dbda/

3) https://www.aclu.org/report/report-war-marijuana-black-and-white?redirect=criminal-law-reform/war-marijuana-black-and-white

4) http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/13/289000532/why-for-profit-prisons-house-more-inmates-of-color

5) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/unequal-sentences-for-blacks-and-whites.html?mcubz=1

6) https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2011/08/12/pennsylvania-judge-gets-life-sentence-for-prison-kickback-scheme/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/

 

There's a lot more where those came from, but the problem we face is quite severe.