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Originally Posted by Kasept
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I wonder if white citizens get shot more because they haven't been tased, pepper sprayed, etc already?
have also found it interesting that black folks get searched a LOT more than white people, but they actually find contraband far more often on white people. just seems counterintuitive to keep keying on black people when that fact is there. even in ny recently, when they were doing stop and frisk, they had those stats.
from cradle to grave, a portion of our citizens are dealing with systemic racism.
and I still am amazed that police departments don't have to report shootings. and yeah, I have wondered when seeing these various studies, how accurate they can be when one doesn't have to report?
and I also wonder, what the narrative would have been with some of these shootings, if a witness with a phone wasn't there to record-like in Charleston?
lack of data collection and reporting also hinders the background check system, with people cleared to purchase a gun, when they should not have been.
we need real justice reform in this country...along with a lot of other things.
the author is right, we should all be marching. our country has lower crime than in decades, but you can't tell by looking at our law enforcement...or swat statistics.