27 Sep 2022 8:27 am
I have said, even in this thread, there is bias in the system. There is bias in every system because systems rely on humans and all humans are bias.ScottMon » 27 Sep 2022, 7:40 am » wrote: ↑ People have been digging into the numbers for decades. It's well established that the court system is biased against the poor and black.
However, I disagree that people have been digging into the numbers for decades. People have been tracking the numbers for decades...not digging into them. For example, one of the stats from a link you posted stated blacks make up 22% of fatal police shootings while only making up 13.4% of the population. On the face, that sounds disproportionate and suggest a bias. However, has anyone examined the results of the investigations and/or video footage of stops (of all kinds) that ended up escalating in any way? Blacks may make up 98% of all incidents where the person stopped refused to cooperate, became confrontational or resisted (I just made up at percentage as an extreme example). Even if they make up only 50% of escalations, then making up 22% of fatal shootings suggest the opposite of a bias against them. That is what I mean by digging into the numbers. If those studies exist, nobody who believes there is a bias has ever produced the data...and the burden is on them to prove the bias (as best a bias can be proven).