Black police officers are no less susceptible to making mistakes than white officers. The last time I got pulled over for just rolling down my fucking window was by a black officer. You yourself acknowledge that the crime rate amongst minorities is higher than that of whites. which in fact makes an officer whether white or black more likely to mistake me for a criminal with ill intentions than they would you.
Exactly.
Here's what I see as the big picture problem. YBM, as a demographic group, are notoriously violent. Far more so than the next most violent demographic, YWM, much less other people. As a result, YBM are treated differently by cops in general. Cops are more suspicious, less respectful, quicker to draw a weapon, that sort of thing. It's human nature.
The flip side is this. YBM are consistently treated worse than other people by the police. Law abiding Joe College, pillar of his church youth group, is also treated with abrasive disregard. So even he develops a bad attitude towards cops in general. It's human nature.
It's a vicious cycle.
Add to that the guns and drugs and cut-rate mental health care the USA is known for, as well as the modern culture of entitlement and victimhood and divisiveness, and we've got huge social problems.
Demonizing and defunding the police isn't going to make anything better, quite the contrary.
Tom