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by subradios
1264 days ago
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These biases are also present in murder convictions, widely used to benchmark crime rates over time and geography due to the inability of police to ignore dead bodies selectively. It could be possible that police and police chiefs are in fact, putting this equipment in poorer neighborhoods because that is where the most gunfire already is. Concerns about the relationship between employees and prosecutors are real, but "reinforcing biases" is the least of our worries in regards to marginalized communities when they are murdered at 5 to 20x the rate of the nonmarginalized communities. Black communities are majority-support of the same or more police per Gallup https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-r... Removing police from poorer areas hurts poor people more than edge case concerns about individual prosecutors playing fast and loose. |
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