California cops more likely to stop black drivers

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[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah yeah, they cry because they are so dehumanized, how can cops group them all together as if they were all criminals!? Except that's exactly what black people do to cops, which is misplaced judgement that leads to fear. Plenty of great people serving and making cities a safer place, but why bother with nuance when you can group them all as brutal, racist pigs, right? You reap what you sow.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The numbers seem to indicate that the police in the United States stop Black people more often than the crime statistics would predict. Numbers also show Black people are punished more often than member of other ethnic groups. This would seem to imply long-standing biases against Black Americans by the police.

I hope I am not misinformed.

[–]DffrntDrmmr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Blacks commit violent crimes at a rate eight-times that of non-blacks. Police target high-crime areas which are predominantly black.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So you are sort of figuring the police stop Black drivers not because of a traffic violations, but because of violent crimes? This is highly imaginative.