(April 12, 2021 at 5:37 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(April 12, 2021 at 3:20 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: All those extra interactions cause bullshit like them being way more likely than whites to go to jail for drug possession while the races use at a similar rate, but at the same time, poor black areas are obviously policed more because that's where the gang activity is.Is it.....? Do you think that there's more or less organization and money behind a gated communities drug habits?
Let's consider this for a moment. Do you think the trial would (more reliably) go one way or the other if Floyd were the resident of a gated community? Is it on account of any actual difference in criminality, or is it simple matter of address? In short and in sum, how do you square the assumption of the beginning of that sentence with the conclusion at it's end?
To be blunt, you seem deeply confused.
Around 3 percent of the American population commits around half of the violent crime and half of the murders. 81 % of black Americans want police to spend as much or more time in their area https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/blac...sence.aspx