BLM Violent Hate Group

[paulpablo]

Hey, so, this was posted yesterday, and is very pertinent to a lot of the discussion in this thread about whether police brutality is related to "a community's interaction with the police" or whatnot:

Pharyngula: "Don't Blame the Victims"

The takeaway:

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And before anyone tries to jump in with "one axis is per 1000 and the other axis is per 1000000", that's NOT THE POINT AND YOU KNOW IT!!!

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Police brutality isn't necessarily related to police killings.

I didn't say there would be a direct correlation to police killings and violence among cities.

I don't know all the precise correlations and how they relate to relate to other statistics but I made a guess that if you have one group resisting arrest and being more violent with the police and committing more crime in general, not just violent crime, it will result in more interactions with the police.

I said there's other factors, such as racial prejudice. For all I know the police department of Bakersfield could consist of nazi black hating psychopaths, but that doesn't mean the police department of Detroit has great race relations, their violent crime is through the roof and their officers are hardly killing anyone, they could be doing their job I effectively, there might not be as many of them, they could be corrupt, I don't know. I'm not saying it's their job to kill, but for whatever reason, maybe through no fault of their own, they aren't policing effectively, they're doing a relatively good job of not killing anyone but lacking when it comes to stopping people being killed.


I don't think it's controversial to notice that black people kill police at disproportionately high levels while being killed by police at disproportionately high levels and thinking these things could be related and it has more than one rooted cause and that both sides have some problems to take care of.