Demea wrote:
Yeah, more frequent stops and longer sentences is total ******** racism, no argument there. But the reason the cops are in black neighborhoods to begin with is because they are disproportionately the victims of crime.
Are you saying that these admitted racists were concerned about the safety of the people that they are bigoted against? The answer is "no". The statistics (what you live by) of stop and frisk in New York clearly demonstrated that more contraband was found on white people than minorities, yet minorities were stopped nearly 80%(?) of the time.
So, no, this wasn't about helping victims, but targeting victims who are least likely able to defend themselves. Secondly, people are conflating killers with drug dealers and drug users. No one is complaining about taking killers off the streets. The problem is the assumption that everyone in the neighborhood is guilty till proven innocent.
Demea wrote:
In summary, I think we're talking past each other. Which is likely my fault, because I generally don't bother reading your posts in much detail since they commonly lack coherence.
Maybe your incapability of reading coherently is the problem.
P.S. I didn't say that I don't believe in statistics, but I'm biased against statistics because I'm smart enough not to take information at face value without seeing the bigger picture.