White Privilege?

[Dill]

(07-12-2018, 03:17 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I could have sworn that the big study from like earlier this year or last year said that blacks are more likely to be "encountered" by police, but that whites are more likely to be shot. And we're talking ratio not total numbers.

One critical factor for the issue of racial profiling has to be whether the deceased (or wounded) was actually armed as opposed to merely being "perceived" as threatening.  We see plenty of high profile cases in which blacks are shot out of hand by police--Tamir Rice being perhaps the most blatant example. So the question is does this happen to whites too, and in proportional numbers? Perhaps it does but that doesn't make the news. Stats could tell us that, if properly kept.  But I am pretty sure that as of 2015, there was no national database compiling all data on armed "interaction" between police and perps.