Originally Posted by greenflash245 :
the cops do target blacks, whether the cop is black or white or pink or blue. don't kid yourself.
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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I do not agree. Tell us why you say this.
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Study after study shows that blacks are unfairly targeted in police traffic stops, yet it is a recurring conservative theme to refute these studies. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has figures available on public interaction with police which support this fact.An August 2019 study published by the National Academy of Sciences based on police-shooting databases found that between 2013 and 2018, black men were about 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police, and that black men have a 1-in-1,000 chance of dying at the hands of police. Black women were 1.4 more times likely to be killed than white women. Latino men were 1.3 to 1.4 times more likely to be killed than white men. Latino women were between 12 percent and 23 percent less likely to be killed than white women.A 2019 study of 11,000 police stops over about four weeks in the District of Columbia found that while black people make up 46 percent of the city’s population, they accounted for 70 percent of police stops, and 86 percent of stops that didn’t involve traffic enforcement.A 2019 study of police stops in Cincinnati found that black motorists were 30 percent more likely to be pulled over than white motorists. ....and the list goes on and on. So Greenflash was correct. Don't kid yourself.