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Recently I'm sure many Americans will have heard that there have been violent outbursts towards police, and a social call to action for the support of black people under the hashtag 'blacklivesmatter'. I just wanted to throw a few points out that I have thought about while smoking a healthy Friday night blunt or 4. I welcome your discussion and criticism!
So, I would argue that the whole notion of blacklivesmatter is a racist one itself; however, since the microscope is on law enforcement at the moment I wanted to share a few numbers with everyone. In the year 2015, which google confirmed was last year (if you're on my level right now you will understand), police officers fatally wounded twice as many white-Americans as black-Americans, and when I say twice I mean the number is a few dozen people off of being exactly double. Case closed right? Not quite... white-Americans make up about 70% of the population, while black-Americans represent only about 14%, a ratio of approx. 1:5. Based on this fact alone, many argue that police unfairly target and treat black-Americans. This is an uninformed accusation though. I would argue that since 52% of the black population lives inner-city, and police forces are most heavily armed and densely populated inner-city, they inherently have a higher chance of encountering the police on a daily basis. When we look at the average inner-city white population it's a puny 17%. On average most white city-dwellers will actually live in the surrounding suburbs rather than in housing projects within the city, suburbs who's police forces are on average much smaller than than the inner city police force. When I saw these numbers, I quickly realized that just by simple probability a 1:5 ratio of fatal police encounters would not make sense with the information I've given above.
Okay so that's all I can handle right now I am freaking toasted. I would like to post some questions to you.
1. Did this make sense?
2. How do you feel about the population disparity of inner-city race, and do you think that it explains the 1:2 fatality ratio we are seeing?
The information I presented in this short post was collected from verifiable sources of scholarly nature; mainly from US government data sheets.
Recently I'm sure many Americans will have heard that there have been violent outbursts towards police, and a social call to action for the support of black people under the hashtag 'blacklivesmatter'. I just wanted to throw a few points out that I have thought about while smoking a healthy Friday night blunt or 4. I welcome your discussion and criticism!
So, I would argue that the whole notion of blacklivesmatter is a racist one itself; however, since the microscope is on law enforcement at the moment I wanted to share a few numbers with everyone. In the year 2015, which google confirmed was last year (if you're on my level right now you will understand), police officers fatally wounded twice as many white-Americans as black-Americans, and when I say twice I mean the number is a few dozen people off of being exactly double. Case closed right? Not quite... white-Americans make up about 70% of the population, while black-Americans represent only about 14%, a ratio of approx. 1:5. Based on this fact alone, many argue that police unfairly target and treat black-Americans. This is an uninformed accusation though. I would argue that since 52% of the black population lives inner-city, and police forces are most heavily armed and densely populated inner-city, they inherently have a higher chance of encountering the police on a daily basis. When we look at the average inner-city white population it's a puny 17%. On average most white city-dwellers will actually live in the surrounding suburbs rather than in housing projects within the city, suburbs who's police forces are on average much smaller than than the inner city police force. When I saw these numbers, I quickly realized that just by simple probability a 1:5 ratio of fatal police encounters would not make sense with the information I've given above.
Okay so that's all I can handle right now I am freaking toasted. I would like to post some questions to you.
1. Did this make sense?
2. How do you feel about the population disparity of inner-city race, and do you think that it explains the 1:2 fatality ratio we are seeing?
The information I presented in this short post was collected from verifiable sources of scholarly nature; mainly from US government data sheets.
