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> Notice that while average white parents might worry about criminals before letting their kids out on the street, the black parents worry (with good reason) about the police.

Black people killed by police in 2018 [1]: 209

Black people murdered by civilians (of any race) in 2018 [2]: 7,407

White people killed by police in 2018 [1]: 399

White people murdered by civilians in 2018 [2]: 6088

Aren’t criminals a greater threat than police for both black and white peoples? Of course this isn’t the whole picture of what interactions with police look like, but if you are scared for your children’s lives, criminals seem to be a much greater threat regardless of race.

> the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals

This does not seem to be even remotely correct. Am I missing something?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in...

>>throwa+(OP)
This sort of argument clumps everyone everywhere together as a statistic.

The problem domain is much more granular than that. You would need to collect statistics on a specific community in order to get an informed conclusion about the events in that community.