No Justice, No Peace

If you kill someone, whether the criminal justice system throws you in prison may come down to your race.

That’s the takeaway from a recent report by Daniel Lathrop and Anna Flagg at the Marshall Project. They looked at federal data to analyze the circumstances in which a homicide was deemed “justifiable” by police. Their findings were astounding:

In almost 17 percent of cases when a black man was killed by a non-Hispanic white civilian over the last three decades, the killing was categorized as justifiable, which is the term used when a police officer or a civilian kills someone committing a crime or in self-defense. Overall, the police classify fewer than 2 percent of homicides committed by civilians as justifiable. …

In comparison, when Hispanics killed black men, about 5.5 percent of cases were called justifiable. When whites killed Hispanics, it was 3.1 percent. When blacks killed whites, the figure was just 0.8 percent. When black males were killed by other blacks, the figure was about 2 percent, the same as the overall rate.

The racial disparity held up after controlling for different circumstances. When they adjusted for how well the killer and victim knew each other and how the victim was killed, white-on-black-men homicides were two to 10 times as likely to be called “justifiable.” And when controlling for age in addition to those other factors, white-on-black-men homicides remained 4.7 times as likely to be called “justifiable” as other cases. The disparity also seemed to hold up across the country, according to the report.

Wow, you've said a ton of ridiculous things, but now you claim there is someone online on THIS forum who thinks 'blacks' should be allowed to shoot police officers???? This is 'crazier than an outhouse rat' statement. Who do you think actually believes this nonsense? You're just making things up in an effort to annoy other people.......that's sadly pathetic.

He's making snotty comments about my needing ADHD medication because I don't want to read through his goofy circuitous posts. Does he honestly believe ANYONE wants to read that boring tripe?

He seems to think that being prolix establishes him as the thinking man's conservative.

All while he pukes up shop-worn right wing clichés and the latest party line from President Plump.

It's one of the right wing's favorite tricks - co-opting a Democratic icon. In this case it was a fake one. They love to parade Alveda King -MLK's niece - around at their "rallies", because she's the only member of MLK's extended family who they could get to sell her soul.

Wow, you've said a ton of ridiculous things,

but now you claim there is someone online on THIS forum who thinks 'blacks' should be allowed to shoot police officers???? This is 'crazier than an outhouse rat' statement. Who do you think actually believes this nonsense?

You're just making things up in an effort to annoy other people.......

that's sadly pathetic.

And pathetically sad

It's jaw droppingly ignorant. I don't use the word ignorant very often, but that statement was either ignorant or an intentional lie.

I hope I never understand the reason people make up outrageously demented hate filled lies.

This is ridiculous. You can't find one sentence in any of Snoods comments that are anywhere remotely racist.

Are you enjoying the attention?

People actually address you when you engage in the outrageous, that's even more pathetic.

Ok, I'm not reading anymore of his posts, it's on ignore and has been been for quite some time. The next time I get curious about that nonsense and abandon self respect to actually address that horse pucky, I need to just say 'Jerry Springer, there but for the grace of God'.

This is pointless. Life is precious, why should I waste one frigging second dealing with a lunatic. Or you???

I don't know what you're smoking, but you need to give it up.

This is pointless. Life is precious, why should I waste one frigging second dealing with a lunatic.