Re:Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Loca...
by fastball on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @07:14AM
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Statistically, the "strong police force" side cares more about black lives. Anecdotally, maybe not.
1. The vast majority of murdered black people are murdered by non-cops, even if you categorize any time someone gets killed by a cop a "murder", regardless of context.
2. This number will go up, not down, if you abolish/defund police forces.
There really isn't much more to it than that. The biggest threat to a black person's life is another black person, not a cop. Would it be better if cops didn't murder unarmed people? Absolutely and emphatically YES. But that means better training, which in turn means more funding, not less.
1. The vast majority of murdered black people are murdered by non-cops, even if you categorize any time someone gets killed by a cop a "murder", regardless of context.
2. This number will go up, not down, if you abolish/defund police forces.
There really isn't much more to it than that. The biggest threat to a black person's life is another black person, not a cop. Would it be better if cops didn't murder unarmed people? Absolutely and emphatically YES. But that means better training, which in turn means more funding, not less.