Police Kill Too Many People–White and Black (2016)
&gt; Moreover, many would argue that disproportionate poverty levels among black people render them more likely to encounter police officers in the first place—vastly unfair, but different from the problem being simply cops’ standing racist bias<p>Actually that&#x27;s exactly the problem of systemic racism. Racism is at the level of the system and not the individual (though there are still individual racists out there for sure).<p>Cops kill and injure way too many people (of all races) (without due cause), and encounters with Police escalate much too quickly. This is a problem, and that&#x27;s why a big conversation on the role and responsibility and methods of policing is happening. Though Police too exists within a system, such as the possibility of any civilian to be armed and carrying at any time, and so all that context must be considered.<p>Blacks are disproportionately a victim of this, so obviously they are more invested in this conversation, and leading the charge on pushing for changes.<p>It turns out that one of the likely reason for their disproportionate encounters with Police is their disproportionate socio-economic situation, which was likely created as a result of the racist history of the country and the heritage and legacy (or lack thereof) it left their communities with. And that would make it a systemic racism issue.