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[–]GConly 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Black people in America aren't killed disproportionately once you take into account the fact that they have much higher offending and arrest level that puts them into contact with police way more often.

On a per arrest/encounter incident mortality isn't different.

If someone feels like claiming the higher arrests are down to racism via stop and search: they commit homicides and rapes about seven times the non Hispanic white rate Police racism has virtually nothing to do with their higher arrest rates.

[–]DarthVelma 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Gonna push back on the "seven times the rapes". That could most definitely be down to police racism. We all know rape is severely under-reported in the first place and the police are notoriously bad about not even bothering to investigate. But I could totally see the police being more willing to go after black rapists than white ones.

[–]GConly 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That could most definitely be down to police racism.

Not really. It's going by crimes reported to the police, and victim studies.

You'd have to believe that reports by women naming white rapists (virtually all white victims) were being dumped, and that the white men's victims were not talking about it in victim studies either.

Which seems unlikely.