What don't I understand?
Some cops are bad. Most cops are good.
Criminals commit crimes and it's the cop's job to prevent crime. That creates a naturally adversarial relationship. Cops are on edge because they don't want to get killed on the streets. I'd be on edge too. That's no excuse to plant evidence etc.
Well, this is fascinating huh? Published in the Economist.
White cops are no likelier to shoot dead African-Americans than black ones are
New research suggests that increasing racial diversity in police departments will not cut the number of non-white Americans shot dead by police
IN 2016 Roland Fryer, an economist, published a controversial paper. Having analysed thousands of police reports from ten American cities he found that police showed racial bias in all forms of force against African-Americans, except one: the use of guns. While blacks were more likely to be tasered, hit with a baton and generally roughed up, when it came to being shot by police they were in no more danger than whites. When he did a more detailed analysis of one city, Houston in Texas, he found whites there were in more danger of being shot by a cop than blacks.
Unsurprisingly, a storm of publicity followed. In recent years, police shootings of unarmed black men have sparked furious protests. Critics of Mr Fryer’s research focused on the fact that African-Americans are stopped by police more, and therefore have more interactions with them, some of which go wrong. Mr Fryer’s data, moreover, was focused on only a handful of cities.
But this week, a nationwide study was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that supports Mr Fryer’s finding. Researchers from the University of Maryland and Michigan State University studied lists of fatal shootings compiled by the Washington Post and the Guardianand contacted every police department involved in the shootings, to ask them about the race of every officer involved. The resulting database has information on the race of police officers and civilians from more than 900 fatal shootings in 2015.
The researchers found that white police officers were no more likely to shoot minority citizens than non-white officers were. If anything, black police were more likely to kill black civilians, because police tend to be drawn from the communities they work in. The best predictor of the race of killed civilians, they found, was the rate of violent crime in the place they lived. In areas with high rates of violent crime by African-Americans, police were more likely to shoot dead a black person. In areas in which white people committed more crimes, police were more likely to shoot white people.
Do these findings have implications for policy-makers? When white officers shoot black civilians a common response is to talk about the need to increase racial diversity in police departments. Last month in South Bend, Indiana, Eric Logan, a black man, was shot dead by Ryan O’Neill, a white police officer whose body camera was switched off. Pete Buttigieg, the city’s mayor and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, responded to outrage over the killing by apologising for not having increased racial diversity on the city’s police force as much as he had hoped to.
The report’s authors say that while increasing racial diversity in police departments may be positive for other reasons—it can increase trust between police departments and the communities they serve, for example—it is unlikely, by itself, to reduce racial disparity in police shootings. “This suggests that reducing fatal shootings of racial minorities by police will require policymakers, civic leaders and ordinary citizens to address factors that lead to racial differences in violent crime, such as racial disparities in wealth, employment, education and family structure,” the authors wrote.
https://www.economist.com/democracy...ot-dead-african-americans-than-black-ones-are
White cops are no likelier to shoot dead African-Americans than black ones are
New research suggests that increasing racial diversity in police departments will not cut the number of non-white Americans shot dead by police
IN 2016 Roland Fryer, an economist, published a controversial paper. Having analysed thousands of police reports from ten American cities he found that police showed racial bias in all forms of force against African-Americans, except one: the use of guns. While blacks were more likely to be tasered, hit with a baton and generally roughed up, when it came to being shot by police they were in no more danger than whites. When he did a more detailed analysis of one city, Houston in Texas, he found whites there were in more danger of being shot by a cop than blacks.
Unsurprisingly, a storm of publicity followed. In recent years, police shootings of unarmed black men have sparked furious protests. Critics of Mr Fryer’s research focused on the fact that African-Americans are stopped by police more, and therefore have more interactions with them, some of which go wrong. Mr Fryer’s data, moreover, was focused on only a handful of cities.
But this week, a nationwide study was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that supports Mr Fryer’s finding. Researchers from the University of Maryland and Michigan State University studied lists of fatal shootings compiled by the Washington Post and the Guardianand contacted every police department involved in the shootings, to ask them about the race of every officer involved. The resulting database has information on the race of police officers and civilians from more than 900 fatal shootings in 2015.
The researchers found that white police officers were no more likely to shoot minority citizens than non-white officers were. If anything, black police were more likely to kill black civilians, because police tend to be drawn from the communities they work in. The best predictor of the race of killed civilians, they found, was the rate of violent crime in the place they lived. In areas with high rates of violent crime by African-Americans, police were more likely to shoot dead a black person. In areas in which white people committed more crimes, police were more likely to shoot white people.
Do these findings have implications for policy-makers? When white officers shoot black civilians a common response is to talk about the need to increase racial diversity in police departments. Last month in South Bend, Indiana, Eric Logan, a black man, was shot dead by Ryan O’Neill, a white police officer whose body camera was switched off. Pete Buttigieg, the city’s mayor and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, responded to outrage over the killing by apologising for not having increased racial diversity on the city’s police force as much as he had hoped to.
The report’s authors say that while increasing racial diversity in police departments may be positive for other reasons—it can increase trust between police departments and the communities they serve, for example—it is unlikely, by itself, to reduce racial disparity in police shootings. “This suggests that reducing fatal shootings of racial minorities by police will require policymakers, civic leaders and ordinary citizens to address factors that lead to racial differences in violent crime, such as racial disparities in wealth, employment, education and family structure,” the authors wrote.
https://www.economist.com/democracy...ot-dead-african-americans-than-black-ones-are
Lmfao. You've never heard of the black cop showing out for the white cop?
It’s about if you are a cop. Not what race are you as a cop.
Good article if anybody here was making an argument relating to that...but nobody is. Lol
Because it is already well known about “blue wall of silence” and US(cops) vs THEM mentality. So not a surprise at all to me.
Honestly, this makes the cops look even worse when you reallllly think about it and understand their mindset. But that’s incapable shit for most of you.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/reason...minalize-throwing-water-on-nypd-officers/?amp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nb...ter-Cops-Felony-New-York-513426961.html?amp=y
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.amny.com/amp/news/water-thrown-cops-1.34497497
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Now it’s a felony. Now the specific act will be a crime.
Harassment lmfaooooooo oh the irony
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nb...ter-Cops-Felony-New-York-513426961.html?amp=y
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.amny.com/amp/news/water-thrown-cops-1.34497497
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Now it’s a felony. Now the specific act will be a crime.
Harassment lmfaooooooo oh the irony
Fox News on at the gym...”NYPD judge recommends firing officer in Eric garner death.
The fact this cop is still on the force is a fucking embarrassment and it takes a complete huge steamy shit on anyone’s opinion of police not being corrupt and being held to the same laws as we are. Fucking embarrassment all of you.
The fact this cop is still on the force is a fucking embarrassment and it takes a complete huge steamy shit on anyone’s opinion of police not being corrupt and being held to the same laws as we are. Fucking embarrassment all of you.
“All I did”. Shutup bitch. All you do is fucking lie and make up shit that nobody said. Shut the fuck up pussyboy.
I never said what you are insinuating. Never said that.
They fear ALL cops because the cops violate and have a blue wall of silence and get off for murder. That’s WHY. When will you learn? Never I assume
