Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"?

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Where I live (Denmark) very very near zero. A burglar (disregarding color), breaking into a rich mans house would also be near zero risk of getting shot by police.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Sigh. Why the hell do I live in the wild fucking West?

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Stand your ground, 3 times and you’re out, non livable wages, enormous wealth disparity, racism, death penalty.
      All these feed violence, and all these are extreme right wing policies.

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Depends on whether they’re a famous athlete.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Is there a story I missed?

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    • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Athletes are more likely to be recognized than business owners or other wealthy individuals.

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    • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Oscar Pistorius

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• disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Victims getting shot by the police happens regularly to non-rich people in regular homes. I would say the risk is at least less than normal, because rich neighborhoods can afford better police services. However, it’s still definitely not zero and is definitely much higher than for white people.

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  • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    and is definitely much higher than for white people.

    That’s not necessarily true. While blacks are shot by police at a higher rate than whites, blacks are also arrested by police for violent crimes at a higher rate than whites. If you adjust for apparent difference in violent criminality by race, it suggests that police are actually more willing to shoot whites than blacks.

    Now, it is possible that the data is bad, that the bar for arresting a black is so significantly lower than for arresting a white, as to give incomparable racial violent crime rates by which to estimate how often police shootings might occur. Similarly, it is possible that blacks are more likely to display exaggerated passive body language for fear of being shot, while whites are more likely to present themselves in an ambiguous or hostile manner as they don’t believe it is likely they will be shot.

    However, an argument in favor of what the data suggests, is that police shootings of blacks are far more likely to result in protests, riots, and rare criminal prosecution of the police, while police shootings of whites, no matter how unjustified, never receive such responses.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Anyone else smell slightly racist undertones? Maybe it’s nothing…

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