[chuckee]

Directly addressing a claim made in the post I replied to (police manipulation/bias of statistics) is not "moving past" anything.

You're welcome to continue onto ever more abstract or systemic claims of racism and bias, but please don't begrudge me pointing out when some of the stepping stones crumble along the way.

[eesmith]

You wrote "One could compare police statistics with victim surveys".

On could also compare other statistics, and show that police are over-funded compared to other sorts of enforcement agencies.

The very act of picking which statistics to use is itself biased.

Simply pointing to NCVS is not going to be convincing. Which numbers should we look at? What correlations should we draw? How should we understand the biases in the interpretation? What alternative explanations are there for whatever it is you haven't actually said?

Without pointers to what what your actual point is, I figured it was just as appropriate to point out how your foundation is itself crumbled.