Can anyone refute one or both of these two articles? (1 Viewer)

[Klimtology]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/flames-from-false-narratives/

TIA

 

[The Commish]

The WSJ piece is an opinion piece....there's nothing to "refute" other than to say one might disagree with the opinion.  Personally, when I read things like this, if they aren't going all the way back to the beginning of this country as a starting point, I don't put much stock in the opinion.  As far as national review goes, I don't waste my time on those kinds of sites like I don't waste my time on our national MSM sites.  If this article happens to be that 0.0001% of their material that might be straight shooter and simply listing facts, I'm all ears...please post that content here.  They aren't getting my clicks.

 

[[scooter]]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883

This is an opinion piece which uses sleight-of-hand techniques to manipulate stats.

For example, it says that a police officer is 18 times more likely to be killed by a black male (as compared to the number of unarmed black males who are killed by police officers). That seems like a scary stat at first, but it's not very helpful without also knowing:

• what is the ratio with other races? If police officers are also ~18 times more likely to be killed by a white male, then the stat is completely meaningless and only serves to provoke division.
  
• how often do police racially profile black males? If they're profiling blacks 18 times more often than profiling other races, then the statistic might make sense.
  

Furthermore, even if the stats did show that black males were inherently more dangerous, how would that justify killing unarmed black males? Aren't you basically admitting that cops have itchy trigger fingers around black males? And wouldn't that tend to prove that cops need to be better trained to not kill unarmed black men, which is kind of the point in the first place?

 

[kface]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/flames-from-false-narratives/

TIA

https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/

 

[-fish-]

In 2016, 466 whites were killed by police; 233 blacks were killed by police.

Whites are 76.5 percent of the U.S. population (including Hispanics); blacks are 13.4 percent of the U.S. population.

By citing this, he lost the argument to himself.