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Minority police shoot members of their own minority more often than whites though, so this policy would likely mean more dead black men

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/bad-policing-bad-law-not-bad-ap...

That's the data, not my opinion.

Yes, but fewer cities would burn as a result.

ah yes the burning cities !

I didn't mean it would solve the problem of Police killing minorities, just a problem of public caring about it.

Half the officers charged over Freddie Gray's death were black. No one was less mad over it because of that.

The system can be racist even if its constituents aren't. It shouldn't be a new or unfamiliar idea to anyone here that complex systems can have unexpected outcomes, biases, and emergent properties.

Top ranking guy was white though? Right?

Some of the worst police departments are majority minority with minority leadership all the way up to the mayor's office. This is obviously not a solution

Found the racist

Further reading (I'm not typing all of this again):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31926859#31955340