Quote:Here's another study by another new organization that counters yours.  Just wanted to put this one out there...

 

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded a final tally of 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers this year.

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<div style="font-family:'Guardian Egyptian Web', 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;"><a>The Guardian view on killings by US police: why we must keep counting</a>
The Counted has made up for the Obama administration’s failings, but the lack of oversight remains. So we will restart our count of people killed by police until the government does its job

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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">Despite making up only 2% of the total US population, African American males between the ages of 15 and 34 comprised more than 15% of all deaths logged this year by an ongoing investigation into the use of deadly force by police. Their rate of police-involved deaths was five times higher than for white men of the same age.

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">Paired with official government mortality data, this new finding indicates that about one in every 65 deaths of a young African American man in the US is a killing by police.

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">“This epidemic is disproportionately affecting black people,” said Brittany Packnett, an activist and member of the White House taskforce on policing. “We are wasting so many promising young lives by continuing to allow this to happen.”

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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015...-black-men

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Your data is saying the same thing. 13% of population vs 26% of all arrest is double expected based on population. 7 kills per a million vs. approx 3 per a million average for other races is approximately double as well. All you have shown is that a black male is twice as likely to be involved in a conflict with police as about anyone else and that they are killed at a proportional rate to the amount they are arrested. 

 

Even the stats you referenced compared total population, rather than arrested population. Your running in statistical circles so to speak. When they are arrested blacks are killed at the same rate as whites approximately, but they are twice as likely to be arrested. Now the argument is why is that so? My thought is its a systemic issue that forces many Black youth into a victim mindset where they believe the only life they can live is one of illegality due to real or even precieved barriers.

 

But at this point I don't care about why anymore, I just don't want to fall victim to a totalitarian regime presenting itself as 'the answer' to all our problems.

 

Thesis: Black people are disproportionately criminal and therefore must be profiled by cops

Antithesis: Cops are racist Pig's who want to kill black people

Synthesis: ?????? More government power will deal 'justice' and keep both sides 'reasonable'?

 

Congrats you guys now all know what a Hegelian Dialectic is.

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