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You keep on asking for quantitative proof that the citizens of a democracy are scared of their police system.

Recent protests and police reactions should be a starting point.

I assume you ignored and downvoted my other comment explaining the philosophy behind it, so I won't repost it.



FWIW I did not downvote anyone in this thread. I feel like the worst motivations are being assigned to me throughout this thread. If anyone cares, no, I do not have bad intentions. I saw some claims that were hard to reconcile with the data I had. That's really all. I don't want anyone to suffer, and I know blacks disproportionately suffer police violence and ordinary violence.

My takeaway here is that people simply care A LOT more about police violence than ordinary violence, something like 20X.


Black Americans care about police violence because we need to have a good relationship with authorities to help with the other problems (including, yes, black-on-black crime). That's why you see support in the black community both for "defunding" police and more police presence in high-crime neighborhoods.




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