A lot of studies on this very topic are underway based on the most recent events.
However a study was released saying there was a heavy racial bias of non-lethal force.
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force
A lot of studies on this very topic are underway based on the most recent events.
However a study was released saying there was a heavy racial bias of non-lethal force.
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force
Men are more likely to commit an aggressive act. How many times do you hear of female bank robbers? Female murders with weapons? Women are more likely to kill their kids and husbands. Not strangers. Being a Meninist doesn't help here.
Black lives matter is targeting the area that needs to be improved. Black community relations with law enforcement, the war on drugs, and police use of excessive force. To be fair though if you're really in Europe you wouldn't really understand black lives matter since your countries are much more homogeneous with that changing more recently from the refugee crisis in the middle east. (Not that there aren't african and descendants of africans there just in a much smaller degree)
You say police don't look beyond race yet by a large majority white officers are the ones who have committed these controversial killings. This is a racial issue. It needs to be fixed on both sides however how can a community call for help to get rid of drug dealers and gangs when the people who come to help can't be trusted?
You said black lives matter is lying what's it lying about huh? You must remember Black lives matter is a loosely strung organization with some people saying stupid things claiming to be advocates.
Shooting innocents is wrong. If an officer needs to shoot someone unarmed that's a failure of the officer of deescalating the situation. Police are supposed to be trained that lethal force is the last resort. Police are also supposed to remember that all are innocent until proven guilty in the U.S.. The best way to say it is in America police today are allowed to act based on emotion and instinct but an untrained civilian must remain perfectly calm with a gun pointed at them.
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So you want to justify officers of the peace killing people by comparing it to criminal murders?
If I could have this as a signature, I would make it one in a heartbeat. Please get this word around and educate the uneducated. People just can't get it through their damn heads that these shootings are most likely RACE motivated. The evidence is all over their face and they STILL choose to ignore it.
"You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation."
You can blame the training - no national standards means training can vary radically. Current training also seems to lead to escalation rather than de-escalation.
Increasing funding to pay for proper training, longer training periods, and dealing with bad cops instead of protecting them would go a long way I think.
There are just as many racist black people in the US as there are racist white people at this point. Hate to burst your bubble. If anything BLM is making the black racist number rise. Hell the black community is probably one of the most bigoted overall especially if you take homophobia into account since historically the black community has had a higher percent of hatred to the gay community.
A 20% increase is not a heavy bias. Compare it to self-reported incidents, for example, where you see a 300% racial bias. On this comparison alone it becomes clear that common perceptions are more than a factor of ten off the mark.
I'd also like to point out that a 20% bias against whites for lethal force is reported as 'no racial bias'. Again, we're seeing warped perceptions of race relations in the US bubbling to the top.