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&gt; He starts by noting that white men and black men are killed by police at around the same rate. This is, again true. But this means that Black people are killed at around 5 times the rate of White people.
&gt; These racial differences show more police violence towards minorities.<p>Naturally. Don&#x27;t you think it&#x27;s completely logical that people who also commit far mor crimes, also get into far more tussles with the police? Probably find a way for your community to become more law abiding and peaceful, and this will stop being an issue all by itself!<p>One way to do it, is to ask for policies that open up for more social community work, where the first responder to economical, drug related or abusive behaviour stops being the police, but rather a social worker, or some other community representative. It&#x27;s just a suggestion. Should be right down your lane since you are a left winger!<p>If you can get democratic traction for something like this, which is far more fruitful than playin the blame game, I think it would help crime go down greatly. It&#x27;s basically what is done in my own country, and while the system isn&#x27;t perfect, it&#x27;s preferable to storming communities with police all the time; a thing that naturally causes some legitimate outrage, though it&#x27;s not <i>necessarily</i> due to racism.<p>This way of doing things isn&#x27;t free, however—and let&#x27;s face it, Norway is filthy rich—so you can assume there will be pushback on how it should be funded, especially from the Right. Then there&#x27;s the fact that Norway is a far smaller and more close-knit society in general. But then so are most ethnicly homogeneous neighbourhoods. I still think it&#x27;s an idea to at least explore. And I also think these ideas are far more preferable to the Right than tearing down statues.<p>&gt; Elder then notes that police forces can be diverse, which is true but ultimately a distraction.<p>No, it&#x27;s not. I means there&#x27;s a far less chance that the police are racist.<p>&gt; He mentions the NYPD as an example of a highly diverse police force, but neglects to mention that the NYPD&#x27;s Stop and Frisk policy was so problematic that it was deemed unconstitutional due to its discriminatory nature[4].<p>Dude, what has the obviously political and administrative policy of &quot;stop and frisk&quot; to do with the racial composition of NY cops? I&#x27;ll tell you: Nothing! They&#x27;d have to carry out that policy whether they were all black, all white, or diverse to the point of employing martians!<p>Either way, don&#x27;t you think it&#x27;s a little unfair to try to pin political policies on the police force? In fact, then Mayor Bloomberg (D) had the power to stop the frisking policy in New York at any point, but instead he chose to defended it.[1] And for good reason, because AFAIK it was wildly successful, and made New York a lot safer for most people.<p>&gt; He then mentions that the Police-Public contact survey shows no evidence of police abuse against black people, but the Fryer paper Elder cites manages to reach the opposite conclusion: that based on the Police-Public contact survey, there is statistically significant evidence of greater police use of force against minority populations, even when controlling for a number of factors.<p>That&#x27;s because there <i>is</i> no opposite here... Abuse ≠ Legitimate use of force.<p>&gt; He then mentions his movie, Uncle Tom, which contains a number of &quot;conservative thinkers&quot;, who are mostly pundits. It contains no academic experts.<p>Of course. All academic experts of the Right are just pundits. I get it...<p>&gt; [It] ignores the Southern Strategy[5], an explicit Republican strategy to gain support in the south by appealing to white fears about race in the wake of the civil rights movement. 13th goes into detail on this.<p>Were these fears unfounded then? Obviously the numbers show that blacks do indeed kill far more whites than whites kill blacks, both per capita and in pure numbers. Again, facts, not claims. Do you think that shouldn&#x27;t be a cause for consern? Man, lives are <i>literally</i> at stake!