Declining attitude to law and order

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Facts and figures from Fox News? I'd rather trust a blind man to lead me to water than a man who covers his eyes in mud.

Either way, I still don't understand the fascination with the US in this thread. I mean the title is general, but I still imagine that it's rather irrelevant to the UK and attempting to make it relevant is surely counter-productive.

I suppose it's a good distraction from actual issues, which is probably the point.
 
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This man just ended the war on drugs!!!11



It was proven to be racist due to the constant disproportionate use of force against black people by the police.

Prove this was racially motivated without referencing other crimes and people might listen to you and take you seriously. The man was a paranoid schizophrenic but instead of addressing the fact he was released, you could just make it a race issue which will totally fix the problem.
A bold claim that wont be backed up by any statistics.
 
So your argument that the police aren't racist boils down to, "More black people get arrested than white people."

You might want to have another try.

Your posts are so often really rather pathetic, lacking in substance and so easy to rebut.

Black's are arrested at a disproportionate rate for violent offences in the US because witnesses report them commiting violent crime at a disproportionate rate....

U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics

Criminal Victimization, 2017

TABLE 10
Nonfatal violent incidents, by total population, victim, and offender demographic characteristics, 2017

In about three-quarters (76%) of violent incidents where perceived offender characteristics were reported the victim perceived the offender to be male.

Based on victims’ reports, there were about four-fifths as many white offenders as the percentage of whites in the population, about twice as many black offenders as the percentage of blacks in the population, and about one-sixth as many Asian offenders as the percentage.

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv17.pdf

The massive undrepresentation of Asians as reported suspects for violent offences as a percentage of their population is notable.

The color of crime race crime and justice in America 2016

The evidence suggests that if there is police racial bias in arrests it is negligible. Victim and witness surveys show that police arrest violent criminals in close proportion to the rates at which criminals of different races commit violent crimes.


I called it several posts back - for whatever reason (lack of intelligence, lack of education, or some other reason) you've been left too vulnerable to fallacy to engage in debate.

I forgot to add that beyond pathetic your posts also often display a comical lack of self reflection.
 
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Depends where you stand re drugs and their criminalisation. Personally have zero issues with people wanting to use or sell weed, a stretched police force would most likely benefit from certain drugs like weed being decriminalised. Can't see the need to go heavy handed on a 14 year old for a bit of weed.

What aspect was heavy-handed? He was in possession of a significant quantity of it which needs to be dealt with appropriately. There's also the obvious safeguarding requirement given his age and vulnerability to exploitation.
 
Ok Caracus2K

What, in your opinion, is the reason that:



?

Its not hard....

It's for the same reasons that whites get arrested for violent offences much more often on a per capita basis than Asians in the US.

The simple demonstrable fact is that one of the most important factors in determining how well someone will do in life in a country like the UK or US is their own attitude towards study, work and family.

An awful lot of this is derived from the 'cultural norms' that a person adopts from their family and thoose around them.

Its clear that some subcultures are inferior to others when it comes to achieving academic, economic, occupational sucess and avoiding falling foul of the law.

It's not 'racist' if you personally act in a way that is less conducive to your own ultimate success than others even if this is largely a product of the upbringing you received from your family/guardians and whatever community your parent(s) / guardians/ peers etc were associated with.

Just a few weeks ago a section of the supposedly prestigious Smithsonian (The National Museum of African American History and Culture)
put out a chart online in their "talking about race" portal which included a section titled “Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness in the United States” which included the culture traits, “hard work is the key to success” and “objective, rational linear thinking,”

If you think not following "whiteness" means being lazy, prejudiced and irrational then you deserve to fail in life and its not racist that you follow such an inferior ideology.

This demonstrably can't be accused of being a "white supremacy" position either as it is clear that many "white" sub cultures are inferior to other "non white" ones, even in majority "white" countries when it comes to things like average academic, economic and occupational sucess and avoiding things like incarceration.
 
Stats also form a bit of a problem when looking at repeat offenders. The below is obviously in no way representative of the truth, I'm just using it to illustrate how numbers can be misleading.

Population:
900 white people
100 black people

100 crimes committed.
60 crimes committed by 60 different white people.
40 crimes committed by 8 different black people.

Ignoring unique criminals, you can say black people make up 10% of the population, but commit 40% of the crime, their crime:population ratio is 4:1.
The same metric for white people (60% of the crime, 90% of the population) gives a crime:population ratio of 2:3, or 0.67:1
Oh noes, black people are 6 times more likely to commit crimes than white people (4 / 0.67 = 6)

However, only 8% of the black population actually committed any crimes, whereas 6.7% of white people committed crimes.
So from a unique person perspective, black people are only 20% more likely to commit crimes than white people ( 8 / 6.7 = 1.2), a far cry from the 600% we saw in the previous calculation.
 
I'm sure most people would agree skin colour does not make people commit more crime. The problem is culture and circumstances.
 
Agreed. You post facts and figures, he has nothing to refute them so now calls you thick. Excellent effort by him.

"Nothing to refute them" - Do you realise it's not me making anyone look stupid?

Here's my post containing "nothing to refute them":-

Most of these have videos...

Trump Divisiveness:-

Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Speech to Deliver Divisive Culture War Message
In Trump’s new version of American carnage, the threat isn’t immigrants or foreign nations. It’s other Americans.
Donald Trump’s divisive method culminates in Portland
Trump's 'dark and divisive' rhetoric energizes base but risks losing moderate voters
Most Americans agree: President Trump is divisive
Trump’s divisive words collide with his call for unity
Trump's Divisive Instincts Helped Him Win the White House. Where Will They Take America Now?
According to a survey of experts on the U.S. presidency, Donald Trump ranks lowest on presidential greatness and highest on polarization (one for @Trusty, this one - one of his favourite publications)

How Trump's Divisiveness links to incitement to violence:-

ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.
White Nationalist Says Trump Incited Violence at Rally
Snap will stop promoting Trump’s account after concluding his tweets incited violence
My Words Led to Violence. Now Trump's Are Too
All the times Trump has called for violence at his rallies
Twitter Flags Trump for ‘Glorifying Violence’
Does Donald Trump incite violence? Let's count the ways.
Fox News judge calls out feds deployed by Trump for "inciting" violence in Portland

Resulting instances of violence:-

Violence in the name of Trump - Dozens of supporters of Donald Trump have carried out or threatened acts of violence. Here, the Guardian lists them all
Trump supporter ‘violently attacks’ BBC cameraman at rally after US president whips up anger over media
2 Trump Supporters Charged for Rally Violence
Here Is a List of Far-Right Attackers Trump Inspired. Cesar Sayoc Wasn’t the First — and Won’t Be the Last
SELF-PROCLAIMED WHITE SUPREMACIST AND TRUMP SUPPORTER VIOLENTLY STRIKES WOMAN AT FLORIDA RESTAURANT (VIDEO)
Trump May Pay Legal Fees of Man Who Sucker-Punched Protester
Buffalo Police Officers Suspended After Shoving 75-Year-Old Protester
George Floyd protests: Salt Lake City police push elderly man with cane to ground
 
Your posts are so often really rather pathetic, lacking in substance and so easy to rebut.

Black's are arrested at a disproportionate rate for violent offences in the US because witnesses report them commiting violent crime at a disproportionate rate....

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv17.pdf

The massive undrepresentation of Asians as reported suspects for violent offences as a percentage of their population is notable.

I forgot to add that beyond pathetic your posts also often display a comical lack of self reflection.
Lol. I say "have another try" and so you post new evidence to "have another try" and yet I'm apparently the one that's wrong and lacking self-reflection.

:)
 
Lol. I say "have another try" and so you post new evidence to "have another try" and yet I'm apparently the one that's wrong and lacking self-reflection.

:)

I posted evidence to show that the variance in police deaths between different racial demographics is likely heavily influenced by the vastly different rates they are arrested for violent offences, on a per capita basis.

You then decided to imply that the variance in arrests for violent offences was itself down to racism on behalf of the police.

So I had to play whack a mole with this silly suggestion by showing that police arrest rates for violent offences are quite consistent with the ethnic descriptions given for suspect by members of the public.

Which suggests that racism isn't a particularly relevant factor when determining the ratios of arrests, per capita, for violent offences between different racial groups.

It would nice if you even bothered to try and substantiate the claims and insinuations you frequently make.
 
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And you still haven't shown video evidence...
...And we're back to:-
Lol. I'll get off this gish-gallop now.

I called it several posts back - for whatever reason (lack of intelligence, lack of education, or some other reason) you've been left too vulnerable to fallacy to engage in debate.

It seems fascist-enabling Trump offers something that overrides all other aspects of the debate for you.
...Most of the links have videos embedded - but that's to put to one side why you feel a Youtube video is better than the multiple articles and lists I provided.

You took offence at my line about education - you can clear all that up by telling us which university course taught you Youtube was a better source than reputable media outlets.
 
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