Ex: "Black lives matter too" vs "black lives matter". or "replace / reboot the police" vs "defund the police". The police one I'm having a hard time thinking of a slogan that would be better, maybe that's why it stuck.
time travels back to a nearby counter-protest, yells:
"All Lives Matter, Always."
time travels back to the future
And now you're back to square one.
I didn't know death by Canadian was something we tracked specifically :P
One example of right wing consolidation around their designed messaging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
Given that ~300 black men are killed by police each year, I don't think that math checks out.
Agree with police reform, although we probably need more funding in many places, not less.
Multiply that by 1,000 and you get 23M.
There are 38M Black and African Americans in the USA, approximately half of which are male.
The math checks out fine.
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
> Risk peaks between the ages of 20 y and 35 y for all groups. For young men of color, police use of force is among the leading causes of death.
→ 0.999984802431611 chance of not-being-killed-by-police per year.
pow(0.999984802431611, 69) = 0.998951909443727 chance of never being killed by police.
→ 0.001048090556273 chance of at some point being killed by police
→ just over 1/1000 over a lifetime.
The math checks out... if we ignore the "young" part.
In fact, if you assume that people are young for x% of their lives, and x% of black people are young, this exactly cancels out and you still get `0.001048` odds of being killed by police.
That's why I think we need to be focusing on why black people have a higher crime rate, and how we can fix the societal problems that lead to that. Reducing the number of police shootings is a great goal, but so long as there is a racial (and gender) divide in the crime rate there is going to be a divide in the police shooting rate.
Is it? Or are young black men just disproportionately more likely to be held accountable for their “Three felonies a day”?
My question is, why call it "defund the police"? The core of the idea is that, in many cases we can change our response from involving police officers to involving some other group who will hopefully be able to do a better job. The fact that this can be accomplished by reallocating funds from the police department, to avoid needing to levy taxes to raise revenue, seems like almost the least important part of the plan. Even then, "defund the police" is only the first half of "defund the police and use the additional funding to create another group that picks up some of the police's responsibilities".
My feeling is that many people view police with antipathy, so they like the slogan and concept of "defund the police" because it feels like a retaliation against the police. I strongly suspect that other ideas, some of which may be much more beneficial than changing the response, will be ignored if they can't be phrased as a tactical strike in the culture war.
Here's one list of proposals [0] for police reform, many of which seem very promising for how little cultural sway they have (delegalize police unions, abolish QI, decriminalize victimless offenses, etc.) I wonder if they have so little sway because they can't be phrased in a sufficiently incendiary manner.
(And by the way, just because there's antipathy towards the police doesn't mean the police are directly at fault. For instance, if police are made to enforce unpopular legislation like the war on drugs, that will obviously make people dislike them but the root problem is somewhat upstream)
[0]: https://medium.com/@yudkowsky/a-comprehensive-reboot-of-law-...