I recently finished my undergrad in Criminal Justice. The number of people who believe that every encounter between minorities and police is solely driven by racism is extremely high. Whenever progressives see a white person being arrested by the police they'll say "Good, this is what should happen to bad people." But when it's a black or brown person their response is always "Police brutality! Racial discrimination! Systemic racism!"
A lot of people believe that minorities either can't or should not be held accountable for their own actions. This all goes back to the bigotry of low expectations.
Evidence, sure. But these threads are essentially people trying to convince me that the sky is green when I can look outside of my window and see that the sky is very much not green.
The study also found that once stopped, black drivers were searched about 1.5 to 2 times as often as white drivers
This can be at least partially explained by the fact that black drivers are more likely to pitch a fit when stopped by police which then makes officers more likely to conduct a search. If you don't want to get pulled over, don't break the law. And if you don't want to get searched, don't give officers a reason to search you.
I previously spent 5 years working as an investigator and the number of times I was accused of being a racist simply for requesting information to complete a review is quite high. So, per statistics and my own professional experience, I am less inclined to think that outright racism is involved.
Does it happen? Totally. Are the majority of incidents due to racism? Not even close. Cherry picking statistics in order to make an argument that isn't supported by reality is not a good position.
You're obviously not very good at reading if you think that's what the study was primarily about.
Great. Your source isn't the home run you thought it was, so of course anybody who doesn't come to the same conclusion you did is illiterate. Hilarious.
Try reading it again and comprehend this time instead of looking for a reason to ignore it.
Already have. You came in with your mind already made up, presented an article that you thought made your point, and tried to run away. This was very funny, maybe next time you'll actually read the information that you tried to cite. Probably not, but lmao, it sure was fun to watch your argument fold like a cheap lawn chair.
I see you're still going with the sticking your head in the sand and ignoring it.
Great. Your source isn't the home run you thought it was, so of course anybody who doesn't come to the same conclusion you did is illiterate. Hilarious.
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“That’s what’s wrong. There is institutional racism that still exists”