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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
the arrest stats and stops stats are also imbued with racism.quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:
But to compare police shooting rates across racial boundaries you wouldn’t actually need crime stat numbers to be accurate, arrest/stop stats being accurate would be sufficient.
. If that is why they shot him, it is retaliatory force.quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:quote:Shooting a man (in the back) while running for his life because he was drunk?
I never get these types of comments. He was shot because he assaulted the officers and shot his taser at them. Whatever one thinks of the justification, the causal chain is pretty clear.
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quote:Originally posted by Cindysphinx:. If that is why they shot him, it is retaliatory force.quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:quote:Shooting a man (in the back) while running for his life because he was drunk?
I never get these types of comments. He was shot because he assaulted the officers and shot his taser at them. Whatever one thinks of the justification, the causal chain is pretty clear.
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quote:Originally posted by Cindysphinx:. If that is why they shot him, it is retaliatory force.quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:quote:Shooting a man (in the back) while running for his life because he was drunk?
I never get these types of comments. He was shot because he assaulted the officers and shot his taser at them. Whatever one thinks of the justification, the causal chain is pretty clear.
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
if it were a gun, you would be right. The gun retains the ability to kill at that distance.quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:
No o wasn’t implying he had the bead on him. Just that he was still aiming it at him. The threat hadn’t subsided.
quote:Originally posted by Cindysphinx:you realize that who is deemed the criminal population is itself soaked in racism, right? That there has been selective enforcement in policing for decades? If you patrol black areas, harass black peoples, and criminalize black drugs but not white drugs, the measure you are using is already tainted.quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Roland Fryer at Harvard has spent years studying it.
The popular press reports it the other way around but they’re comparing police shootings to overall population rather than criminal population.
You can’t measure racism using a yardstick dipped in racism.
quote:Originally posted by BeeLady:quote:Originally posted by Cindysphinx:. If that is why they shot him, it is retaliatory force.quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:quote:Shooting a man (in the back) while running for his life because he was drunk?
I never get these types of comments. He was shot because he assaulted the officers and shot his taser at them. Whatever one thinks of the justification, the causal chain is pretty clear.
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