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1. waffle+kt[view] [source] 2020-06-22 20:28:24
>>pseudo+(OP)
> widely documented disparities in how US law-enforcement agencies treat people of different races and ethnicities

Citation needed, particularly for Nature. As far as I can tell the supposed disparities are explained by the amount of violent crime the race and ethnicity commits (leading to more police interactions), but it's impolite to bring that up.

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2. rickha+cu[view] [source] 2020-06-22 20:31:12
>>waffle+kt
"Widely documented" means that it's trivial for you to look up the data yourself.
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3. waffle+cw[view] [source] 2020-06-22 20:38:48
>>rickha+cu
I obviously have, primarily the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), the Bureau of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), and the Washington Post's police shootings database. If you compare the police-citizen homicide rate of the latter to the violent crime rate by race/ethnicity of the former, it's quite proportional.

If you're basing your opinion off of highly publicized gruesome videos, I can show you less publicized videos of other races being killed by police too.

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