Racial Breakdown On Police Shootings

Some interesting info on the racial makeup of most police shootings in the U.S.

 

For a while I've felt that the news media can be too quick to highlight race whenever a white police officer shoots a Black person regardless of the details and circumstances of the shooting. I think the news media needs to get clear on when race actually needs to be highlighted and when it doesn't when it's a white black police shooting.

 

The shooting of the 16-year-old girl in Columbus underlines my question of why anyone would choose to be a police officer.

The real action in the video starts at 9:55.

If he doesn't shoot her, he'll be in trouble for taking no action when someone was clearly being threatened with bodily harm with a deadly weapon.......but if he does shoot, he'll be taken to task for killing a suspect because of the color of their skin.

One way or another, his life is going to be hell, at least for a while. If simply doing your job.....if that's what he was doing.....can result in your possibly being fired, prosecuted and denounced as a racist, you're taking a huge chance with your life by becoming a cop.

 

You're absolutely congruent with my thinking. Also with my education.

From what I know, they typically mention race in connection with violence. It makes it sound not only like there's a lot of violent crime (there isn't. It's just all they ever bother to report...), but also like violent criminals are people of color; a mischaracterization to be sure!

 

Agreed.

It's a simple choice to side with either racial or non-racial bias, but yet their training somehow never covered it.

I think what's really needed is a recalibrated training curriculum.