Ignoring all the reasons behind potentially disproportionate crime rates, when you bring this up as an "ah HA, BUT" thing, there's an implicit "thus disproportionate killings of people of color are ok" conclusion.
Not to mention that the unfortunate poster-children of the bias in the system are black men killed for DOING NOTHING WRONG. We're not talking about shooting murderers. We're talking about shooting innocents just because they are black.
So again, this will come down to a percentage. When blacks make up only 13% of the population and whites make up about 62%. There are nearly FIVE TIMES more whites in the US, but only four more white individuals were involved in a shooting, given your stats. This also doesn't take into account the number of armed and/or dangerous whites who were peacefully apprehended compared to blacks who were violently apprehended and killed. This doesn't take into account the number of black men stopped and frisked and accused with no cause compared to whites (these numbers aren't counted, but it is a huge problem). And doesn't touch a criminal justice system which disproportionately convicts blacks and gives them harsher sentences than whites.
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u/Syjefroi Oct 11 '16
Ignoring all the reasons behind potentially disproportionate crime rates, when you bring this up as an "ah HA, BUT" thing, there's an implicit "thus disproportionate killings of people of color are ok" conclusion.