Oh I agree. I think the issues are institutional, not with the actual cops. They gotta arrest people for weed, give out tickets to raise revenue, deal with mental health issues that they have no training/expertise in.
But there are issues in the criminal justice system that need fixing which should be what everyones focus is on.
It's just most of them are "boring" issues like bails bonds, asset forfeiture, putting people in prison for drugs rather than rehabiliating them. So the BLM crowd doesn't bother with these and focuses on the narrative that cops are just running around blasting blacks like its a 1st person shooter video game.
But there are issues in the criminal justice system that need fixing which should be what everyones focus is on.
It's just most of them are "boring" issues like bails bonds, asset forfeiture, putting people in prison for drugs rather than rehabiliating them. So the BLM crowd doesn't bother with these and focuses on the narrative that cops are just running around blasting blacks like its a 1st person shooter video game.
Interesting link. Here is the Cliff's Notes version for the attention span impaired:
"The same is not the case for several of the other groups. African-Americans represent 10.9% of the driving-age population but 18.0% of all traffic stops, for a disparity index value of 1.65. African-Americans were stopped at a rate 65% greater than expected based solely on their proportion of the driving-age population."
This study was for Missouri for 2016.
Doesn't mean shit though. Maybe blacks on average are worse drivers. Maybe just like they commit violent crimes at a much higher rate than other races, maybe they commit driving violations at higher rate too. If you look at the data, it seems whites have a disparity near 1.0 suggesting against racism. If anything, looking at the data, maybe they need to target more Indians and Asians.
If they are significantly worse drivers that would be shown in accidents caused by drivers, but it isn't. The results for that are negligible.
Also, why would their cars get searched more based on them being worse drivers?
If you don't give a shit that there are inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, then just say that rather than coming up with some worthless rebuttal.
Most of it is just class and resources rather than race. Socioeconomic and race overlap and thus they look like racial issues when really it's just about the system favoring those who can navigate around it. And that tends to not be people of color.
That doesn't mean the problems don't exist though. And certainly framing them as racial issues rather than socioeconomic gets a lot more mileage to then feed whatever agendas people need. But I would say those that aren't on the side of criminal justice reforms are on the wrong side of history.
Money buys you high-priced lawyers who know how to cast doubt in the minds of jurists and judges because their minds are intellectually superior to both.
As it stands, you have a system where rich black athletes rarely serve any time when they get into trouble, as opposed to poor trailer trash whites who commit the same offenses (domestic abuse etc.).
Is this "fair"? What is "fair"?
Like anything sold on the open market, you get what you pay for.
You want me to get studies that show you that blacks don't get into car accidents at a higher rate than whites in Missouri that are equal to the findings in the study?
You really think that is the cause for the disparity? Because the difference in ability to navigate the wheel causes blacks to get pulled over more?
Change your viewpoint on what? That blacks get into car accidents at a higher rate than whites because they are significantly worse at driving?
Is that your viewpoint?
It's common knowledge there isn't disparity between blacks and whites as far as car accidents go. But you don't seem like much of a numbers guy to me anyway.
I'll tell you what, you responded to me and said the study doesn't mean anything because blacks could just be terrible drivers getting pulled over all the time.
Why don't you prove that incredible assertion true?
I think you're probably drawing dead to figure out how google works but fuck it, 1st time for everything.
Why don't you prove that incredible assertion true?
I think you're probably drawing dead to figure out how google works but fuck it, 1st time for everything.
