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James xeno posted...

Some % points of difference does not a case of clear racial bias make. Let alone "racist death squads killing black people indiscriminately in mass", as some platformed voices like to allege! (i.e. That there is some kind of exceptional thing going on, where police are simply killing blacks in mass, totally outside of the normal for everybody else.) We are talking about an average of ~230 or so total each year.. To put this in perspective.. about ~49 people are killed by lightning every year on average. And that number is before you factor out the deaths that fall within the raw demographic numbers... (which don't really mean nearly as much as some like to contend, but have to be considered here since they represent the entirety of the so-called racial bias assertion to begin with) It should also be noted that an insistence on demographic parity leads to some very.. interesting disparities in certain other criminal justice data related to this. Specifically, data that can't be hand-waved away with claims of bias or anything else.

And here I thought lightning was supposed to protect us!