&gt;  black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved<p>Black Americans commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime. Black men make up 1 million out of 2.3 million people in prison. 4.7% of <i>all</i> <i>black</i> men* are in prison. A black man has a 70% chance of being in prison at some point in his life. Are you suggesting the police are framing <i>all</i> of these people?<p>While police conduct exists and is deplorable, my sense as an observer is that the majority of black anti-police activism is about somehow pinning the criminality of the black community on society at large.<p>While I of course condemn polite misconduct, I can understand how repeated interaction with a recalcitrant criminal element could harden and corrupt a police officer.<p>Look: if we&#x27;re going to have a productive public conversation, we need to acknowledge that black arrest rates are in part a result of elevated black criminality and not pin the entire problem on the police.<p>Downvote me all you want: it won&#x27;t change the facts. Ignoring facts and making policy according to utopian fantasy has never led to human progress, but it has led to a great deal of misery.