S.J.Wwhites commit crime at the similar rates to blacks when you factor in socio economic status. There just happens to be more blacks in low socioeconomic areas due to multiple reasons. You still haven't addressed my point about how a black man is seven times more likely to be shot by a police officer when unarmed than their white peer. This conversation isn't about black crime, it's about police officers shooting dead unarmed black men. I thought this was America where innocent until proven guilty was the basis of your legal system? Or does that only apply to white people.
Unarmed doesn't necessarily mean "non-violent".
I live in a city where there are shootings every day, and police involved shootings occasionally. What I want to know is why people think the police are the problem. I think they could be part of the problem, in a neutral way just because the neighborhoods are so fucking violent that the police have to be aggressive in order to maintain some semblance of law. You know it's bad when you drive past kids hustling on the corner at 1:30pm on a school day.
Yet when someone is shot/stabbed/set on fire no one steps forward as a witness. The schools are underfunded. I've worked with guys making minimum wage who don't even know how many kids they have. All of this creates a cultural problem.
I guess you could say I'm just sick and tired of politicans blaming things that won't fix the problems, shit schools and a segment of my city that is a callous, violent shit hole that takes no responsibility for the hell they live in...that they help enable.