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How did I break site guidelines? The comment I was replying to made wildly exaggerated claims about police violence and racism. I am simply trying to improve the quality of discuss…

A selective list of video clips does not prove anything about racial bias in the use of deadly force by the police - the whole motivation for the riots that are causing so much des…

Strange to see wild narratives on HN about police racism and violence that have no basis in reality.

What is the evidence for racist police violence? Black people are killed by the police in proportion to the rate at which they commit violent crime.

Like most commentary from the mainstream press, it assumes that there is strong evidence and reason to believe that police use deadly force in a racially biased way. But the percen…

There is no strong evidence for a racially biased use of deadly force by the police in the USA. It is crazy the entire public debate around this issue does not even question this a…