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Really good video from @RantingMinority debunking some misinfo on police violence youtu.be/dJijDY8JPVQPermalink On twitter.com
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Re: "9 unarmed black people were killed by police in 2019" and other such stats. Stats like this purposefully exclude people killed in police custody. They only count the specific situation where a cop is chasing a guy or whatever and ends up shoots someonePermalink On twitter.com
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Also, "armed" vs "unarmed" is not the same as "justifiable" vs "unjustifiable" police use of force. Someone who is armed is not necessarily dangerous and vice versa.On twitter.com
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Also, also, even taking this into account, even when controlling for rates of violent crime, black people are still more likely to be victims of police violence, more likely to be arrested, more likely to be falsely imprisoned, and more likely to receive harsher punishmentsPermalink On twitter.com
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Re: "what black people need are more cops to stop black on black crime" and other such sentiments. Factors relating to increasing the intensity of the criminal justice system (more policing, tough on crime policies) are some of the weakest correlating variables with crime.Permalink On twitter.com
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The only one that *seems* to decrease crime is incarceration. And that comes with a host of negative externalities like: - false arrests - bias - huge expenses that cities could be putting elsewhere - economic damage caused by the police needed to increase incarceration ratesPermalink On twitter.com
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Theoretically, if you could cheaply and magically remove every criminal from society and put them somewhere else, crime would go down. But we can't, so chasing higher incarceration rates tends to end up in failure, systemic racism, and cycles of povertyPermalink On twitter.com
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Turns out, fixing the things that cause crime is far cheaper and more effective than making the streets run red with the blood of criminals or whatever. I learned all this researching my MHA article. I dug up the source too: jstor.org/stable/3488363?seq=1Permalink On twitter.com