(05-27-2020, 09:49 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(05-27-2020, 09:12 PM)Last42min Wrote: JJ's point is that there isn't a mountain of evidence. We live in a nation of 350 million people, dude. 12% of those are black. The fact that every person in the country has a camera and can now record police brutality is a benefit to everyone. However, if we take every recording of a black man being beaten by the cops and compare it to the totality of the population and police encounters, it's not even noticeable.

Let me put this another way. If we, as a society, wanted to look at police brutality perpetrated against whites only, it would be very easy to make a case that whites were being victimized by the police. There's just as many instances (if not more), but no one cares. At least not nationally. Now, I'll be the first to admit those numbers would be skewed because the white population is about 5X more, but that's not really my point. Even if we were to look at those cases and see them on the news, my position wouldn't change. We live in a nation of 350 MILLION people. When you look at police encounters as a whole, brutality is not the norm. It just isn't. Does that mean we shouldn't correct it? Absolutely not. Hell, I am all for holding police officers accountable.

I'll go one further. If a cop was beating up a black guy, yelling the N word and literally saying I want to kill a black man today, it would not be proof that the entire system is  corrupt. There are bad actors. Again. I don't know if you can wrap your brain around 350 MILLION people, but it's a lot, dude. You WILL find cases like this if you're looking for them. Punish the bad actors and stick to the facts.

Has anyone actually studied that?
Don't we have to look at every use of force to see which ones might have been excessive?
Could be a lot of video. Are there enough minutes in the day to study it?  Remember each year is 525,600 minutes.  Less than a million minutes in a year.
Does anyone know how many instances of brutality still go unrecorded?
You're the one who asked me to ponder the millions of people there are in this country and their millions of interactions with police.