It never ceases to amaze me that people on this board (a board full of skeptics and freethinkers, supposedly) will make broad generalizations about differences in treatment between blacks and whites by the police based on a handful of cell phone videos. These are anecdotes, people. Do you seriously think there are not incidents where cops treated white people horribly, and were cordial to black people? Do you not realize that people looking to push a particular narrative (like TYT) are not going to show those videos? To come to any conclusions about police bias, you need to rely on statistics, not self selected cell phone videos!
Which would be great. Except, the police refuse to let anyone have access to (or sometimes even keep) statistics.... So the fact that we now have so many people with cameras (and some police are supposed to always wear them) and we're seeing a heavily slanted 'bias' that might actually be reality.
Can you find statistics from a reliable, neutral source?
So, if you don't have statistics then its OK to make up whatever narrative you want based on random camera footage? What if I started threads here with security camera footage showing black men stealing packages from people's porches, but didn't show, for example, white females stealing packages? And then captioned it, "Guess the race of the person stealing the package? Go on...guess!". Is that fair? Honestly, I have seen quite a bit of package stealing videos showing young black men
and young white women (and other demographics for that matter) stealing packages, but after all this time, I have no idea who is the bigger problem in this crime, and I would not make a claim or try to promote a particular narrative.
