Based on the statistical data, the entire narrative of police brutality on people of color is a politically weaponized lie. The most potent context in which systemic racism still exists in this country is to the extent that the left and the Democrat party use it as a tool to keep non white voters beholden to the party.
Would you mind sharing this “statistical data” ? Everything I’ve found points to the contrary.
Here is how blacks are terribly mistreated systemically every step of the way- they are more likely to go to prison despite innocence, and more likely to have to deal with the shitty hassle of stops, arrests, charges, etc. They are treated far, far worse. When they see George Floyd- it is a reminder of their collective life experience of **** treatment at the hands of cops, prosecutors, judges and juries.
https://static.prisonpolicy.org/scans/ccj/LowLevelOffenseStudyFinal11.09.04.pdf
Blacks are 700% more likely to be exonerated by the Innocence Project (and others) for murder. (But only murder / death penalty exonerations are even pursued- so the vast majority of crimes never get this review).
Also:
-50% more likely to be stopped for “no reason” while driving
-250% more likely to be searched without consent (whites 30% more likely to have contraband)
-50% more likely to be arrested vs warned
-15% more likely to be offered a plea deal with
prison time (vs community service time served etc)
-20% more likely to be convicted
-serve 10% longer sentences.
All studies behind these #’s control for what you’d expect- geography income priors circumstances of arrest specific charges etc.
Fun fact- if you multiply out all those factors from stopped on the street to convicted, it ends up being roughly 675% (1.5 * 2.5 * 1.5 * 1.2) more likely that a random black person (vs white person) goes from legally driving their car to prison. Eerily close to that 700% more likely to be exonerated.
Here’s one on driving stops and searches from Minnesota:
https://www.twincities.com/2016/07/08/data-dive-racial-disparities-in-minnesota-traffic-stops/
Numbers are higher than what I quoted.
Another from Vermont:
http://digital.vpr.net/post/study-spotlights-dangers-driving-while-black-and-brown-vermont#stream/0
Again, numbers higher than what I quoted. Both of these are localizing and control for obvious factors (geo, reason for stop, etc).
Both cover- stops, searches, and contraband found.
I wrote this a while back saving the stats from this WaPo study:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-driving-while-black-federal-statistics-show/
In which the stats are in line with my claims- rather than much worse, as in those two studies.
On arrests:
https://www.twincities.com/2016/07/...ata-shows-disproportionate-arrests-of-blacks/
Again, data is worse than what I claimed. Whites are roughly 3.5x as likely to be let off with a warning vs arrested. Data I was using was more conservative. Here’s another study in line with the data I posted:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2011.00230.x
Plea deals:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/247227.pdf
On convictions, here you go:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/mar01/jurorbias.aspx
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-racial-bias-among-jurors-death-penalty-cases
Once again- numbers are even worse than what I claimed.
Here’s another fun one- white victims made the defendant 2x more likely to be convicted, vs minority victims. Let criminals go free! As long as the victims were black.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953615300642
Here’s the original sentencing study I was referencing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...act-same-crime-as-a-white-person-study-finds/
On sentencing- Florida is among the worst. Depending on county and crime, blacks getting anywhere from 1.1x to 2.2x the sentence- same crime priors and circumstances. This is after the Florida legislature passed a points system to be used by judges in sentencing- to fight racial disparity. Judges are basically ignoring it.
http://projects.heraldtribune.com/bias/sentencing/
And finally, exoneration:
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Race_and_Wrongful_Convictions.pdf
Blacks 7x more likely to be wrongfully convicted/ exonerated for murder.
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What’s fun, is that Before the current justice system was formed... we had Jim Crow. And before that- slavery.
In all of its glorious “small government” history, the US has always been systematically oppressive of the black minority.
It’s the core fabric of our culture. The label or specific institution is irrelevant.
