Police have been quitting in droves in the last year

Post by ttfkam » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 5:13 PM UTC

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Absolute death by police in 2020: white 457, black 241. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de... Population: white 197M, black 40M. https://statisticalatlas.com/United-States/Race-and-Ethnicit... Per-capita: close to 3 times as many black people shot. I couldn't find clear statistics for unarmed victims. Please post if they're much different.

This site says it's normally close to 2x more unarmed white people shot, so it would still be less per capita. It's still a relatively small number for both; a mid-teens amount of unarmed black people, and a mid to high 20s unarmed white people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...

Post by jakelazaroff » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 11:08 PM UTC

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This is pretty trivial to research. https://time.com/5099513/martin-luther-king-day-myths/ > In the 1960s, the vast majority of white people, South and North, disapproved of the movement’s tactics. In a May 1961 Gallup survey, only 22% of Americans approved of what the Freedom Riders were doing, and 57% of Americans said that the “sit-ins at lunch counters, freedom buses, and other demonstrations by Negroes were hurt…

> "You're being divisive!" has long been the cry of the status quo. The arguments made against BLM and Defund - including the "it's communism!" stuff; Just because a complaint has been heard before doesn’t mean it’s wrong, indeed it could just as easily mean it’s being said again because it is valid . Dismissing people who have a valid criticism as ‘the status quo’ to be ignored, is by definition divisive . It is the…

Post by brutusborn » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 1:45 PM UTC

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Our language is full of ambiguities, and this is one. Both interpretations are listed in the Cambridge dictionary. The truth is: clarity require lots of words, and that makes a terrible slogan. Most people react stronger to a slogan than a nuanced discussion, so the messy slogans will remain.

> Both interpretations are listed in the Cambridge dictionary. That is due to a change that was made in the last year. [1]. Historically, that dictionary has defined defund as "to stop providing the money to pay for something". The change to the Cambridge dictionary entry was made recently in response to the "defund the police" discussions, so we can't use the newly changed meaning as always having meant to "divert s…