Great analysis & recommendations.

Grossly oversimplifies the issue(s).

Another oft repeated oversimplification. You don't always have to be guilty to be arrested. However, once you are in the system, if you cannot afford bail and a decent lawyer you are screwed perhaps forever. Even if you are eventually discharged, you have likely lost your job, your housing and your debts have probably piled up.

All this talk, all I know is a handcuffed man, on the ground, posing no threat, was kneeled on and murder. Now you can quote all the studies you read on the internet (we know how true they are) but the fact remains, a black man was murdered while in handcuffs by a white officer.

Therein lies the problem. We treat unskilled people like they don’t deserve to be paid a livable wage.

Poverty leads to crime, and so rich folk (typically white, but mainly because they have enjoyed generations of privilege) have to resort to extreme policing to keep the poor underclass under control.

Up the minimum wage to a livable wage and that will go a long way to helping the situation. And do a better job of weeding out the bad cops - we see far too many on video these days.

What planet or place do you live? Dont employ minorities? Where is that statement coming from? A police dept has basic tests to pass plus psychological testing. If more blacks than whites fail....oh well. Whose fault is that?

Exactly. Comply, do what youre told and you get to go home. Resist? Yes, you may get tased, beat or even shot. Make your choice. Everytime someone wants to get out of a situation, the race card is pulled out. How about the immigrants who came through Ellis Island way back when. They were discriminated against and treated like crap but the majority of them wound up working hard and became a success. They didnt put their hand out to get everything free possible from govt aid. And if they were poor, they didnt birth 10 kids and get paid grom the govt for each one. Open your eyes everyone. Color never mattered. Integrity does

Because studies show blacks resist more than whites. Post ALL the facts

WOW, with real facts and everything! Let's take a look at some of these real facts...and decide if they are evidence of a real agenda.

(1) "This report was researched and drafted by the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School (“authors”)..."

(2) "Use of lethal force policies were then analyzed and graded using a system the authors developed based on international law and standards..."

(3) "The authors collected police department 2017-2018 use of lethal force policies online—on police department websites and at useofforceproject.org..."

(3a) Here is the very first line from the authors single most important data source at useofforceproject.org: (just do a Google search or click the link in the report)

"POLICE USE OF FORCE POLICIES CURRENTLY LACK BASIC PROTECTIONS AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE"

(4) Is it possible that a distorted, agenda-driven report begins with a distorted, agenda-driven principal source of data?

But if the man who was kneeled on and died was white, his story wouldn’t even have made the national news. Because that wouldn’t fit the media’s false narrative of systemic police racism.

Bologna.

Wait until you watch all the videos of the death of the black gentleman.

Oh Pshaw.

Dad had seven siblings. Grams was one of nine. Not a single soul among them all and their offsprings and wives and sisters and cousins and aunts were arrested and have a record. No one needed to hire a decent or indecent lawyer. Had some speeders but no folks arrested.

I have lived on this earth for 80 years. We have dozens and dozens of family. Some are not the epitome of wonderful but they managed to avoid getting arrested, losing their job because of being arrested and worrying about a lawyer. I think that The Villages is full of people who have a similar experience.

DO NOT BLAME LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR ENFORCING THE LAW.

And if you aren't going to speak kindly about them don't call them cops. We know what you really say.

In that case, I am glad he failed. I do not feel that the gov should be involved in manipulating racial demographics in communities. Integration is not the same as assimilation. Concentrate on assimilation and integration will happen on it's own and more naturally.

I get the impression that a majority of people stand against racism when it's clearly identified. If you say racism exists somewhere out there in the ether and we need to fix it is when you lose some of your audience.

Show me racism and I'll stand next to you to defeat it.

When I hear profanity laced speeches being shouted through a bullhorn by a protester demanding reparations for slavery, defunding police and saying it's all because of racist cops, I see the accusation of racism being used as a weapon, a threat or an excuse to loot and act like a thug.

I support peaceful protest for continued changes in the way the police interact with the black population and being held accountable for bad cops.

I don't support opportunistic individuals looking for a quick money grab or power. An opportunity to call random strangers racist and push their political views if you disagree.