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human
CMV: This isn't a race issue, it's a police brutality issue

The problem isn't just that police are shooting too many blacks, it's that police are shooting too many people across the board. When you adjust for crime rates, blacks are not shot more than other races. Blacks commit more crimes and as a result have more police encounters which leads to more shootings. The rate of blacks shot by police won't magically fall to match the rate of whites shot by police. In order for the black rate to fall, cops need to be less violent against everyone.

Despite some trying to use "All Lives Matter" to downplay police brutality, it is what we should be saying.
gpt
Here's the thing.

There are lots of problems with the police (and good things too, but it's just not the point).

You think the biggest problem is police brutality. You've seen some police brutality? maybe you know people who've experienced it maybe? fair enough either way. You are anti-police brutality. That's become a part of who you are.

If someone else (we'll call them Gerald) had their house stolen by a police dept. via police corruption, they would view the worst thing about the police as being police corruption. Gerald becomes Mr. anti-police corruption.

Now. Let's imagine there's a breaking story where police brutality and corruption are both considerable factors.

You read the story and say "well look here! More police brutality!", and Gerald reads it and says "By gum! when will the corruption stop!"

Neither of you are wrong. You both just focus on what you both have been focussed on for years. There's space for both of you because the police did more than one thing wrong and you're both calling them out.

For a lot of Americans, their personal experience has made them, more than anything else, anti-police-racism.

Police racism is definitely a thing.

Those people decry police racism when it's racism and corruption.

They'll decry police racism when it's racism and incompetence.

They'll decry police racism when it's racism and brutality.

They aren't denying the brutality, it's just that for them the racism fight is the bigger fight right now.