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Truth_Decay posted...

It could be that his upbringing has ingrained a deep-seated irrational fear of black people, to the point where he may be that much quicker on the trigger with a black person than he would with a white person in the same situation. These cops arent necessarily racist, but theyre still affected by racist thinking, even on a subconscious level.

But for that to be the case, you would have to find that black officers are more lenient on black perpetrators and I don't believe that's the case. As I mentioned in Baltimore, something like half the police force is black and the arrest statistics are as bad if not worse for the black population in Baltimore than anywhere else.

Or Atlanta, where the majority of the police force is black and still has crime statistics that APPEAR to disproportionately affect black people.

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a comprehensive study as to what the race of an officer is vs the race that he arrests, but the point still stands. Are these black officers racist?

And you bring up this deep-seated fear of white vs. black but I would contend that there's a far higher prevalence of fear of the police as a result of someones upbringing which would cause them to be far more likely to act inappropriately in interactions with the police.
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