[Armistead]

When I look at stats, most of what I'm seeing is a big circular jerk off of passing the blame backwards.

Blacks are shot at a rate 2-3 times higher than whites by police officers, but the reasoning is said 13% of blacks commit over 50% of violent crimes.. so more police interaction. Then comes the argument that blacks are profiled, arrested and charged more than whites, thus a much higher unfair crime stat than whites, but then stats police are called into black communities via 911 at a much higher rate than white communities. Then we have stats a that a broken family unit { pushing 75% illegitimacy rates for black Americans} failed education, poverty, govt dependency creates more crime. If you pack all these factors into a city sector you create a war zone of gangs, drugs, murder and crime. Because it's such a dangerous job cities give much more lenient union contract protections to police, but this seems to protect bad apples...Then we have the issue of overall police brutality, but the major news is white police racism vs the black community narrative when black cops are more likely to use deadly force against blacks. Then studies that say, regardless of race in America, if you graduate high school, get a job, don't have kids out of wedlock, continue to educate yourself and use your money wisely you have a 80% chance of moving into the working middle class spectrum where crime stats are much lower.

The answer to all of these seems politicians focus first and pass the blame on the racism of white police against blacks, then overall bad policing, when the real issues are the economics and policies, like policing for profit. It seems to be a bottom up focus instead of a top down focus where politicians scream narratives for votes when things go wrong and continue doing the same ole **** in back rooms.