Sometimes more is NOT less.
Sometimes it's just too fing much to be bothered with.
Sometimes more is NOT less.
Sometimes it's just too fing much to be bothered with.
Thanks exceptional person.
Where do the Gen-Z, the tech and media savvy stand in this. Fighting armed police/military with pop guns is so yesterday?
Pentagon War Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Gen Z Rebellion
"In the face of protests composed largely of young people, the presence of America’s military on the streets of major cities has been a controversial development. But this isn’t the first time that Generation Z — those born after 1996 — has popped up on the Pentagon’s radar.
Documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act reveal that a Pentagon war game, called the 2018 Joint Land, Air and Sea Strategic Special Program, or JLASS, offered a scenario in which members of Generation Z, driven by malaise and discontent, launch a “Zbellion” in America in the mid-2020s."
JLASS Document
continues:
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/05/...ar-game-gen-z/
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
This whole unpleasant situation seems to be based on a misplaced framing of the problem I would say.
This is a story primarily about police brutality, not racism.
Is there any stats to show that blacks get harsher policing than whites?
Taking into account the fact that, due to unfortunate socioeconomic circumstances beyond their control, blacks do commit more crime than whites.
The socioeconomic problem is worth addressing but is there a statistically demonstrable issue with police violence being disproportionate w.r.t. race after the socioeconomic ethnic representation skew is factored in?
And Harry wouldn't misunderstand so much, if it wasn't for.................. Gutenberg
Fuck you, Johann
Good point,Klondike
They do have to be more carefull today
Although the Supreme Court has given the police a free pass if they feel"scared or threatened".( I heard )
Scary, eh ?
Feds Charge Branden Wolfe, 23, in Connection With Minneapolis Police Station Fire
Federal authorities on announced Monday that a 23-year-old man has been charged in connection to to the May 28 fire set to the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station during protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
Branden Wolfe, of St. Paul, was charged with aiding and abetting arson at the police station after admitting the authorities he had been in the building, took property, and pushed a wooden barrel into the fire, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Minnesota announced Monday.
MORE https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-c...-fire?ref=home
Ku Klux Klan leader drove truck into crowd of peaceful protesters, Virginia officials say
A Virginia man who is alleged to have driven his truck into a crowd of peaceful protesters over the weekend is an "admitted leader" of the Ku Klux Klan, officials said Monday.
In a statement, Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor described the man, identified as Harry Rogers, 36, as "a propagandist of Confederate ideology." A "cursory glance" at his social media accounts and his admissions to authorities revealed that he was a leader of the white supremacist group, she said.
MORE Ku Klux Klan leader drove truck into crowd of peaceful protesters, Virginia officials say
Some People: Racism is no longer an issue in the U.S.A Virginia man who is alleged to have driven his truck into a crowd of peaceful protesters over the weekend is an "admitted leader" of the Ku Klux Klan, officials said Monday.
Ku Klux Klan Dude: Hold my beer...
Of course there is frequent anecdotal evidence since every time there is an incident involving a black man and police it gets politically driven news coverage.
But is there statistical evidence showing that these highly publicised individual incidents combine to reflect a genuinely racially biased skew in excessive police brutality?
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex
Abstract
We use data on police-involved deaths to estimate how the risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States varies across social groups. We estimate the lifetime and age-specific risks of being killed by police by race and sex. We also provide estimates of the proportion of all deaths accounted for by police use of force. We find that African American men and women, American Indian/Alaska Native men and women, and Latino men face higher lifetime risk of being killed by police than do their white peers. We find that Latina women and Asian/Pacific Islander men and women face lower risk of being killed by police than do their white peers. Risk is highest for black men, who (at current levels of risk) face about a 1 in 1,000 chance of being killed by police over the life course. The average lifetime odds of being killed by police are about 1 in 2,000 for men and about 1 in 33,000 for women. Risk peaks between the ages of 20 y and 35 y for all groups. For young men of color, police use of force is among the leading causes of death.
MORE Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex | PNAS
Of course the 'rote' reply to that would be that more black people being shot may not in itself indicate racial bias on the part of the police.
Nobody would seriously say that the stats on men vs women indicate sexism, after all.
Which might be why ant didn't bother with a longer reply.
^^I even extended it by a full stop to take into account the five character minimum.
The key one is number of unarmed people killed by police.
There is no justification for shooting an unarmed man.
Yet the rate at which unarmed blacks are killed by police is significantly higher than it is for whites, like 2.5 times higher.
Blacks don't riot if a black man dies in a shootout with police.
It's the executions that get their goat (and a lot of other peoples).
Empirically speaking it seems that white mass murderers (e.g. the Dylan Roofs, Robert Bowers, and James Holmes's of this world) who don't top themselves have a significantly higher probability of surviving an arrest than an unarmed Black man does a routine traffic stop.Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
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