People on blind supposedly believe in numbers so here are the facts. According to The Washington Post there were 1,004 killings by police. 371 white, 236 were black. 10 unarmed African-Americans were shot by police. 1. Channara Pheap. Pheap attacked a police officer, choked him and then used a taser on him. Five eyewitnesses confirmed the officer's claim. 2. Marcus McVeigh. Fought a trooper. 3. Ryan Twyman. Ran over deputies with his car. 4. Melvin Watkins drove his car toward the deputy at high speed. 5. Isaiah Lewis broke into a house and then attacked a police officer. 6. Atatiana Jefferson. That officer has been charged with homicide. 7. Christopher Whitfield robbed a gas station. Killed by black officer. 8. Kevin Mason claimed to have a gun, claimed to be armed and vowed to kill police. 9. Gregory Griffin.Killed during a car chase. The officer was charged with aggravated manslaughter. 10. Marzua Scott assaulted a shop clerk. For comparison, in 2015 38 unarmed black Americans and 32 whites were killed by police. Overall totals have fallen since then, and they have fallen far more dramatically for African-American men. The Washington Post claims that last year was the safest year for unarmed suspects. 48 police officers were murdered in 2019. 7,407 African-Americans were murdered by mostly African-Americans. P.S. For all of you who say that the data is statistically invalid because black people compose only 13% of the total population. Here are more numbers courtesy of 1993_mvp. Black people commit 62% of all robberies, 57% of all murders, 45% of all assaults in the 75 largest US counties and compose only 13% of population. So yes black people unfortunately have more interaction with police and instead of labeling this post racist we should think on how to fix it.
The point is that police brutality, if it exists, has nothing to do with race.
Sure so they should call it the end police brutality movement. Are you gone to not support them cause they picked a bad name?
In a rational world, this would be accepted truth. But this is the world of Idiocracy manifested.
It does have something to do with race. The Black population in the US is around 13%. If race weren’t an issue, for every 371 white men killed, only 48 black men would be killed. You listed that 236 black men were killed. That’s an enormous discrepancy.
Yes it has to do with race but has nothing to do with police brutality towards blacks.
hey, what about other factors like poverty, education level ,single parent or not and whether or not resisiting police arrest? The only fair comparison would be two groups with similar income level and background, 1 group white , 1 group back and let's see if the numbers are similar. if that is similar, we know race is not an issue, we need to help all the poor families and people with adverse background regardless of race
Walmart - maybe add stats of violent crimes commited per ethnicity if that data hasn't been 1984ed already
Newbie - welcome to blind. did u just reference CNN :D
Yes.. I don't prefer my sources dumb down the data for me
Wow... Why would you not include the total numbers of black and white people in the US and calculate the percentages? This is a clear attempt to misconstrue the meaning of the data
There are HUNDREDS of research studies proving racial bias everywhere in the criminal justice system. From more likely to be arrested/stopped/searched, to higher sentences for the same crimes, to more likely to be killed by police. Please do your research before you spread such nonsense. You are a disgrace
These stats don't mean anything if it's not per capita. These way more white people than black people in the country, you're literally making the point that there's a prejudice against black people.
Correlation != causation 🍿🍿🍿
That is exactly why the post tried not to make conclusions but it also is hard to ignore the numbers.
Walmart, I agree with you. This is for people who have been jumping into conclusions and running around with angry emotion.
Interpretation of factual data is not, itself, fact. People lie with factual stats all the time. Why is it assumed that armed suspects means imminent threat? Guilt or being armed does not justify murder. Why would high crime rates justify more killings? Why are police interactions not taken into consideration?
My aunt had a KIA like that. Is it KIA or just Kia?
I saw all the numbers but TC. The only one that matters.
Yeah!
Didn't even include the most important number: TC