I as a Black person am 2.135 times more likely to suffer police violence than my White neighbor, even though neither of us (to my knowledge) commits crimes.
If you have not taken statistics courses, please put those on your plate for next year. It is possible to have true figures (and statements) and be completely wrong because you're measuring the wrong thing.
In this case, raw numbers are the wrong thing to measure.
> I as a Black person
Ah, I see, this must be our disconnect. I don't necessarily view myself in a "bucket" of blacks with a specific chance of being shot and killed; I acknowledge that society doesn't have just black people in it.
Now, if everyone lived in racially segregated societies, your statement on likelihood of getting shot might be correct. Maybe you do, I do not know. But as the Joker famously put it, "we live in a society", and if you take the people in that society as a whole, the chance of getting killed by police is microscopic, particularly compared to other preventable causes of death.
Actually, here's an article that actually proves my point about racially segregated societies (and proves that within such a society your statement is 100% correct):
"For blacks, the lowest-risk neighborhoods for police-involved deaths were those that were racially mixed."
I do understand how for more strongly ethnocentric people, like my Mom and some of my siblings, or for those who prefer to be victims, it can be appealing to use such statistics to make things seem worse, though.
While I'm black, I don't wrap my identity in that and perform behaviors or hold attitudes. I feel like that would be racist because I'd be doing that * because of my skin color *. I mean there's one race, the human race, right?
> even though neither of us (to my knowledge) commits crimes.
Well this is interesting; I wonder how many people who got shot were guilty of something. Guess we'll never know, dead people are rarely tried and convicted. But this would be telling and show how many guilty vs. innocent people get shot.
