So if the police escalate a situation and shoot someone who is not a violent criminal, because he is black and therefore more likely (from the police officer's point of view) to be a violent criminal than a white person in the same situation, that's the system working as designed?

Do you understand that this is exactly what people who say 'the police are racist' mean when they say it?

> not when accounting for a higher level of crime. In fact, whites are more than half of police victims, while causing way less than half of violent crimes.

... Think about it. How does higher levels of crime among black Americans explain why more unarmed black Americans are killed by police? Think about it ...

I’m familiar with these talking points and what influences you would have to regurgitate them.

That talking point still assumes that the killings of armed people was necessary. It doesn't tell you if they were legal holders, responsible concealed carry holders, the type of weapon or anything.

Supporting this frame of thought requires being too much of an apologist for an institution that just has too many options with too little accountability.

It is a false dichotomy to simplify it to more police or less, the same goes to people saying defund the police. Accountability is an overarching theme. Overpolicing certain areas is a self fulfilling prophecy that even pollutes your own stats. Black and white people commit arrestable crimes at a similar distribution while the areas black people live in are policed more, or enforced more.