How do British black deaths in police custody compare with the US?

Originally posted by dadudemon
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/08/police-officer-shootings-gun-violence-racial-bias-crime-data/595528/

http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/Homicide.pdf

Based just on this, black people are not killed by police as often as white people, proportionate to extreme violence committed. They are underrepresented in police fatalities.

But:

But wait, there's more:

Some of the above disparities can be explained by the higher rates of violence in the black community but not all of it. The Drug War disproportionately impacts the black community.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/us/prosecutor-race-blind-charging.html

But of the above content, feels like chicken and egg, right? If they are disproportionately stopped by police for suspicion of drugs (fact), then they will have a higher charge and arrest record.

San Fran has an idea on how to combat this AND they have implemented it (it's awesome):

This is a great idea. If you don't know names, race, and place of arrest/offense, then you can't inject racial bias into the decision of whether or not to prosecute.

dur

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epic meltdown broly 😂👆

Originally posted by Artol
That is an interesting idea, I wonder what the consequences will be of that if implemented, I suspect it won't be able to eliminate all inequalities, but certainly an interesting approach.

Thanks for responding.

I do agree - it addresses that inherent bias we have to seeing race and black names.

For me, I go easier on black people when I see resumes with black sounding names because of working about 10 years for the federal government and our contracts/policies had hiring quotas. I would prefer to err on the side of "hire them and see if they perform well" than to err on the side of "they sound black, may be problematic." One is racist and one is trying to avoid getting in trouble on contracts or policies for under-hiring minorities. It was so hard to fill those technical roles that I would practically beg decent candidates to work for me.

DDM kindly stop posting in this thread on my forum, did you not realise this forum is not a out topics... it is only about ME. Oh, wh cares, carry on!

You should ban me with your mod powers. And then give me one of your 20-30 accounts you use (including the 5 you use the pad the poll results for poll-threads you create).

Originally posted by dadudemon
You should ban me with your mod powers. And then give me one of your 20-30 accounts you use (including the 5 you use the pad the poll results for poll-threads you create).

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
I have not done that sort of thing for years. Why the very thought of it, 🙂

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I remember Christopher Alder dying in police custody in the late 90’s. He had served in falklands and Northern Ireland, don’t think his family ever got justice either.