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#152 Jul 21 2016 at 6:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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The police interaction stats for middle class middle aged black men is pretty similar to that of middle class middle aged white men. It's almost like it's not actually about skin color...

Clearly.
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#153 Jul 21 2016 at 6:59 PM Rating: Excellent
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yeah, Gbaji, you're just wrong about this. The black experience is objectively different than the white experience.
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#154 Jul 21 2016 at 7:01 PM Rating: Excellent
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Here's that sweet black existence for people with some money:
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Another time, he said, a cop pulled him onto a roadside median and declared that he believed the car Scott was driving might be stolen. “I also think about the experiences of my brother, who became a Command Sergeant Major in the United States Army, the highest rank for an enlisted soldier. He was driving from Texas to Charleston,” he said. “Pulled over by a law-enforcement officer who wanted to know if he had stolen the car that he was driving because it was a Volvo. I do not know many African American men who do not have a very similar story to tell no matter their profession, no matter their income, no matter their disposition in life.”

A former staffer of his was the subject of one such story. He drove a Chrysler 300, “a nice car, but not a Ferrari. He was pulled over so many times here in D.C. for absolutely no reason other than for driving a nice car.” He sold that car to stop being targeted.

Let me tell you, as a white dude I have cops asking me if my car is stolen because it looks too nice for me all the time. All. The. Time.
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#155 Jul 21 2016 at 7:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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yeah, Gbaji, you're just wrong about this. The black experience is objectively different than the white experience.
Gbaji's busy getting some stats from Heritage Foundation blogs. He'll be with you in a minute.

Here's some light reading in the meantime. Scroll down a ways and there's nifty charts and everything.

Edited, Jul 21st 2016 8:08pm by Jophiel
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#156 Jul 21 2016 at 7:12 PM Rating: Decent
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You mean the black experience you view through the lens of the media?

You're 33% more likely to be pulled over if you're black than if you're white. You are 300% more likely to be searched/frisked during a traffic stop if you are black than if you are white.


Uh huh. And here's why.
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#157 Jul 21 2016 at 7:14 PM Rating: Excellent
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And? Nothing in that article addresses police traffic stops.

According to the NYT article, if you are black and driving through Hoffman Estates, IL, you are 2.4x more likely to be searched than if you're white. The reason for this is not Hoffman Estates' poverty-ridden ghettos.

Edit: Originally wrote "pulled over", should have been "searched"

Edited, Jul 21st 2016 8:44pm by Jophiel
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#158 Jul 21 2016 at 7:15 PM Rating: Default
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gbaji wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
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You mean the black experience you view through the lens of the media?

You're 33% more likely to be pulled over if you're black than if you're white. You are 300% more likely to be searched/frisked during a traffic stop if you are black than if you are white.


Uh huh. And here's why.
See post 115.
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Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
The police interaction stats for middle class middle aged black men is pretty similar to that of middle class middle aged white men. It's almost like it's not actually about skin color...

Clearly.


And yet, amazingly, he never got shot even once. Um... Anecdotes are anecdotes. Or is this where I talk about how many times I've been pulled over? It's far more about where and when you are driving than any other factor. But every time a black driver is pulled over for no apparent reason, it's declared to be racial bias, but then how do you explain all the times white drivers are pulled over, also for no apparent reason? Are those also because of racial bias? Or can we accept that cops do pull people over for "no apparent reason", all the time? And if we accept that, and we accept that there's a higher ratio of cops in high crime areas than low crime areas, and accept that black poverty rates and patterns result in a disproportionate percentage of blacks living, working, and yes driving in those areas, the broad statistics are reasonably explained.

And the individual anecdotes are just that. They don't prove a pattern. Tying the stats and the anecdotes as you're doing is not a good method to make any determination about the cause of this problem.

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#160 Jul 21 2016 at 7:34 PM Rating: Good
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My favorite part of the exchange:

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‘I still got my hands in the air, and I said, ‘No, I just got shot! And I’m saying, ‘Sir, why did you shoot me?'
and his words to me, he said, ‘I don’t know.'”



Looks like a Union rep has come out and said that the Officer shot the man by accident. That he was aiming for the autistic white guy cause he thought he had a gun and was going to kill Kinsey.

But that part of the story makes the handcuffing of the man they just accidentally shot while trying to save his life a bit odd...

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Jophiel wrote:

gbaji wrote:
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You mean the black experience you view through the lens of the media?

You're 33% more likely to be pulled over if you're black than if you're white. You are 300% more likely to be searched/frisked during a traffic stop if you are black than if you are white.

Uh huh. And here's why.

Huffpost Article TITLE wrote:
Black GOP Senator Talks About Being Pulled Over By Police 7 Times In One Year

Being poor is not why blacks are getting pulled over. It is because of the color of their skin.
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#162 Jul 21 2016 at 7:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
And the individual anecdotes are just that. They don't prove a pattern.

They just color the stats showing the huge discrepancy in traffic stops. But I know you don't have data in your favor nor anecdotes in your favor so... ummm... well, I know you won't let that stop you. Keep on being a white Republican, Gbaji Smiley: laugh
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That he was aiming for the autistic white guy cause he thought he had a gun and was going to kill Kinsey.

He thought the autistic guy had a gun based on the umpteen times Kinsey said "That's not a gun", obviously.
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#164 Jul 21 2016 at 7:46 PM Rating: Default
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That's the crazy part. The person not acknowledging the police officer with the potential firearm was left alone. The person lying on the ground with his hands up was shot.
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Huffpost Article TITLE wrote:
Black GOP Senator Talks About Being Pulled Over By Police 7 Times In One Year

Being poor is not why blacks are getting pulled over. It is because of the color of their skin.


I've been pulled over as many as 15-20 times in a year. It is entirely about where and when you are driving. Guess what? If you're white, and you're driving late at night in a neighborhood where there's a lot of white drug dealers, you will get pulled over a lot. If you're black, and you're driving late at night in a neighborhood with a lot of black drug dealers, you're going to get pulled over a lot.

The statistical difference is that there are a lot more neighborhoods full of black drug dealers than there are those full of white drug dealers. Additionally, a middle class white man is less likely to be driving through a poor neighborhood with predominately white drug dealers, late at night, while a middle class black man (for a host of social reasons) is far more likely to be driving through a poor neighborhood with predominately black drug dealers, late at night.

There are several real social and economic issues at play here that contribute to this problem. My issue is with deciding to blame the people at the very tail end of that very long set of circumstances (ie: police pulling people over). That cop didn't create the conditions that he has to deal with. He just has to deal with them. I guess my biggest issue with this whole thing is that it's unclear what policy changes people think could be made at the policing level to fix this? Not pull people over? Not respond to calls in predominately black neighborhoods? I'm not sure that's really a good solution to this problem.
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gbaji wrote:
I've been pulled over as many as 15-20 times in a year.

Wow, you drive for shit, dude. That's not "neighborhoods" or even skin color -- you're just one fucking terrible driver.
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#167 Jul 21 2016 at 7:58 PM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
The police interaction stats for middle class middle aged black men is pretty similar to that of middle class middle aged white men. It's almost like it's not actually about skin color...

Clearly.


Yeah, but he bought a red car, so ...
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#168 Jul 21 2016 at 7:59 PM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
I've been pulled over as many as 15-20 times in a year.
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And the individual anecdotes are just that. They don't prove a pattern.


Edited, Jul 21st 2016 10:00pm by lolgaxe
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Jophiel wrote:
And? Nothing in that article addresses police traffic stops.

According to the NYT article, if you are black and driving through Hoffman Estates, IL, you are 2.4x more likely to be searched than if you're white. The reason for this is not Hoffman Estates' poverty-ridden ghettos.


What's the old saying? There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Median income aside, the linked article shows that 5.5% of the population lives under the poverty line. So we can assume that even within the relatively small area, there are "good parts" and "bad parts" of town, right? Want to take a wild guess at how the racial makeup of the 5.5% living below the poverty line is compared to the whole? 4.8% of the entire population is black. You want to make a bet that the percentage of the population living below the poverty line in that village who are black is higher (probably several times higher)? Want to further bet on how concentrated geographically the poor black population is relative to the poor white population?

As I keep repeating every time this subject comes up, the issue of relative negative police interactions by race is a symptom of another, much larger, problem. Treating it as an isolated problem to be "solved" is a waste of time and effort. We could spend billions of dollars and years of time training and re-training and screening and psychologically evaluating and doing everything we can to try to change the cops behaviors, and it's not going to have more than the slightest effect on the resulting stats. Because these are relative stats. Any change in tactics and methodology and personnel, to whatever degree they have any effect, will not just change the stats with regard to interactions with black subjects. It will affect all traffic stops, and all pedestrian stops, and all domestic violence calls, and all uses of gear and weapons, and will thus change the stats with regard to white subjects too. And the relative stats will still look just as bad. It'll still look like there's racial bias because the bias is baked into the socio-economic conditions that the cops operate in. It's not coming from them.

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#170 Jul 21 2016 at 8:06 PM Rating: Good
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As I keep repeating every time this subject comes up,
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You keep saying that, but merely repeating the same statement over and over doesn't make it true.
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As I keep repeating every time this subject comes up,
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You keep saying that, but merely repeating the same statement over and over doesn't make it true.


The word "merely" actually does serve a purpose in that sentence.
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Jophiel wrote:
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I've been pulled over as many as 15-20 times in a year.

Wow, you drive for shit, dude. That's not "neighborhoods" or even skin color -- you're just one fucking terrible driver.

Maybe he just drives around with a lot of drug dealers?
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gbaji wrote:
What's the old saying? There are lies, **** lies, and statistics. Median income aside, the linked article shows that 5.5% of the population lives under the poverty line. So we can assume that even within the relatively small area, there are "good parts" and "bad parts" of town, right?

Nah. I've been to Hoffman Estates. You haven't. The rest of you frantically trying to spin an answer is meaningless to that basic fact.
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gbaji wrote:
The word "merely" actually does serve a purpose in that sentence.
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Huffpost Article TITLE wrote:
Black GOP Senator Talks About Being Pulled Over By Police 7 Times In One Year

Being poor is not why blacks are getting pulled over. It is because of the color of their skin.


I've been pulled over as many as 15-20 times in a year.


And how many times did they pull you over and ask you if the car was stolen?
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Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
You mean the black experience you view through the lens of the media?

You're 33% more likely to be pulled over if you're black than if you're white. You are 300% more likely to be searched/frisked during a traffic stop if you are black than if you are white.
Jeez, Jophiel; you just keep throwing facts out like they mean something.
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