"And equality of law enforcement is an American ideal. Within the arena of ideas if one is going to propose that there is widespread systemic racism then there should be some factual statistical basis for that argument. Instead, in this discussion not only is evidence not presented, it's not even asked for. The reality of the situation shows that both black and white people are shot in direct proportion to their interactions with police. Their interactions with police are in direct proportion to the amount of crimes reported. The major premise that in some way America has an unspoken institutional conspiracy to deprive people of color of basic due process doesn't pass any level of real scrutiny. Instead we cherry pick one or two cases, write a bumper sticker and kneel to the ground. "

Yea this is the one thing that really prevents me from being on board with the narrative is the facts don't really support it.  As you said, when you account for there being higher levels of crime in black communities, cops use deadly force against whites and blacks at an equal rate.  The one thing this doesn't account for is more innocent black people just going about their business are more likely to be subjected to tougher policing than some innocent white person.  But I think that has more to do with surrounding environment.  There are bad cops, just like there are bad people.  The more interactions you have with cops, the more interaction you will have with a bad cop.  Black people living in these communities not only have to deal with the violence, but the presence of more police and more interactions with police.  But if there truly was overt, undeniable racism in policing, it should play out in the statistics.  But it just doesn't.   Here are the numbers...  compare to the rates of crime, especially violent crime, and there is no proof of the narrative.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/...ings-2017/

And the ironic thing is, even if you had a bunch of super cops that never did wrong, always used proper discretion, were impeccable stewards of the community, how much better would these inner city areas be?  Would crime reduce dramatically?  Would marriage rates improve?  Would children born out of wedlock reduce?  Would the school systems get better?  Any changes would be at the margin.  And obviously no black person likes to be lectured about the problem in these communities.  We all know what they are.  And we all know how the history of racism played a part in them being this way.  Thats why we send tens of billions of dollars a year into the inner city.  Give black students preferential treatment getting into college.  Affirmative action for jobs.  We do this to help level the playing field from past discriminations.  But none of those things really matter until these communities can improve in their underlying issues.  And blaming bad policing probably isn't going to do much to make things better.

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