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Originally Posted by Subby
Those are good points. It just seems like there is an issue there when the disparity is so high between black stops/white stops and black searches/white searches.
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There is a disparity, your numbers aren't wrong. I'm just saying the reason is not necessarily all about racist police officers making individual racist decisions. Officers are the front lines, and very visible, but at some point, they're only a reflection and extension of society. Just taking one obvious one, as a whole, blacks are poorer than whites in this country. There's a million complex reasons for that that have nothing to do with police. But police are on the front lines of dealing with one of the consequences of that reality. Because of societal racism, because of economic injustice, police, even the good ones, will interact with black people at a disproportionate rate.