Re:Looking at the experience of black Britons through an Ame...
by rkangel on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:55AM
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Oversimplification, but Western Europe basically doesn't have a problem with police violence. That (very important) aspect of what's going on in the US just doesn't translate to a police force with very different culture and much better accountability.
It's great that we don't have that problem (people not being shot is a good thing), but that doesn't mean we don't have racism.
But it's not the same thing and it happens on a completely different scale.
Systemic racism in US means that
"the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 31 fatal shootings per million of the population as of August 2020."
Which is completely out of scale for European standards (at least 3 orders of magnitude worse), including the somewhat more problematic countries in East Europe.
EDIT: for comparison in Italy in 2019 3 people were shot dead by police, without any ethnic implication, it means 1 fatal shooting every 20 millions of the population, or 0.05 every million, VS 31 every million.
To look at it in another way: you need to gather 20 million people in Italy so that one of them risk of being shot by the police, it only takes 33 thousands black men in US. It's 620 times more dangerous for a black man in US to encounter a policeman than it is in Italy.
EDIT 2: -1 after only 6 minutes.
It explains a lot about what's wrong in American culture...