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More than 99.99% of police encounters with citizens are peaceful, yet <some high percentage of the population> believe that policemen are targeting individuals.
I can't be the only one who saw the irony in the headline. https://twitter.com/teymoornabili/status/1301675265936953344
I can't be the only one who saw the irony in the headline. https://twitter.com/teymoornabili/status/1301675265936953344
Including this part:
"Research indicates that this disparity stems from political orientation and biased media framing"
"Research indicates that this disparity stems from political orientation and biased media framing"
More than 99.99% of police encounters with black Americans are peaceful, yet <some high percentage of the population> believe that policemen are targeting black Americans and that police need to be defunded.
I am using 2015 data although the actual number of police encounters are probably higher: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6406
Table 1 in this report gives breakdown by race: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp15.pdf
Table 1 in this report gives breakdown by race: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp15.pdf
I am using 1,000 as a general benchmark for the number of people with lethal police contact each year, and 250 for black Americans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
(Yes, other disparities, such as gender, are conveniently ignored in terms of frequency of contact or lethal contact, even considering proportion in the population.)
(Yes, the danger that policemen face with unknown threats, where people are armed, is conveniently ignored too.)
(Yes, the danger that policemen face with unknown threats, where people are armed, is conveniently ignored too.)
I'm aware that non-lethal doesn't necessarily mean peaceful, but I think my point is clear. There is a narrative that people are being hunted down and literally can't 'live' their lives for fear of dying at the hands of police.
Oh, what's this? Nevermind, it doesn't matter because we can just cherry pick data to fit any narrative (even from the same source, not to mention that other sources will tell different stories, such as eyewitness reports).
By the way, I think it's absolutely disingenuous that @StatistaCharts highlights that black Americans are killed at a higher proportion per their population versus other groups and that they lead with that, as if that is the only thing would matter when seeing these statistics.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124036/number-people-killed-police-ethnicity-us/ @StatistaCharts
I am so fed up with commentary being mixed with fact without it being clear what is being done.
I am so fed up with commentary being mixed with fact without it being clear what is being done.
People really really really need to stop using disparities as reasons to confirm their narratives of systematic racism.
They can only ever be a starting point of something interesting to learn.
Casting blame and increasing hostility won't solve an inaccurately identified issue
They can only ever be a starting point of something interesting to learn.
Casting blame and increasing hostility won't solve an inaccurately identified issue
And people are crazy, as in illogical. It's important to care about individual people's lives but within the proper context.
The context created by the US media around police interaction with the public, which is propagated around the globe, is absolutely FALSE.
The context created by the US media around police interaction with the public, which is propagated around the globe, is absolutely FALSE.
Please share. More people need to know.
