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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly.

Perhaps you don't owe bad cops better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it, and in any case this problem is not about this topic: it's a repeating pattern with your account. (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982674 from a few days ago)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

They don’t harass and kill minorities. This is hyperbole.

It's not only minorities they're harassing and killing.

Not only but certainly disproportionately.

Disproportionately compared to what?

The percentage of society those minorities make up?

Shouldn't the correct measure be relative to how criminal they are?

Assuming that some races aren't inherently more criminal than others, disproportionate differences in crime rates would still indicate systemic problems.

No they wouldn’t. They COULD indicate systemic problems but it is just as likely they indicate cultural problems. It’s incorrect to just assume it’s “the system” and not helpful to anyone.

Cultures don't exist in a vacuum. Within a society, a given group's culture is influenced by the situations that group experiences.

Besides, there's already evidence that systemic issues like poverty impact crime rates.

Sure they impact it, but are they the cause? Are they the entire story? Are cultural differences to just be ignored?

If your measure of criminality is determined by the police that should work super good.

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