I've had enough of your [snip] RiC. I thought you were just an [snip], but now you've crossed from that into complete and utter [snipped] by trying to use "you're a republican" as though it's some sort of an insult, and then tossed out the "police are racist" crap ... which has been thoroughly debunked. Also, in your zeal to think that being a republican is some sort of an insult, you reveal your liberal brainwashing even more. One can be a republican and anti-racist, one can be republican and liberal on foreign policy ... but I guess your brain is too puny to think about that logically .. and just idiotically think that "republicans are racissst .. hurr durr burr .." Damn, show some intellect child.
The police are not just racist (some are, but by and large they are not) - but they are more violent and have more power to kill than they should (even that is debateable because a lot of police here end up in a life or death situation and walk in on violent crimes in progress).
However, the police here face more life-threatening situations because arms are so easily available than in any other first country (which is a debate all its own). If you can't disarm the country , then you certainly cannot curtail the police right to self-defense either .. Otherwise the police homicide rate will go up.
Of course there will be innocent victims of police brutality but every figure and statistic shows that it is not just blacks who face the problem of police brutality and it is NOT a racial issue - but a police brutality issue. All Americans face this problem and no one faces it disproportionately unlike what your media has brainwashed you into believing.
The fact that you're too much of a child to recognize this (alongwith all the liberals that keep turning this into a race issue as opposed to a human rights issue) is short-sighted .. and part of the reason why it's debated as opposed to having any real action done against the overall situation.
There are more white people killed by the police than blacks. But there are more violent crimes committed by the blacks. The number of blacks in America is less than whites, but the number of violent crimes committed by blacks is also disproportionately higher than whites. Blacks commit 3 times more violent crimes than whites, and yet their population number is 1/3 that of whites AND more whites are shot by police than blacks.
From 1990-2008, blacks accounted for 52% of all homicides in the States and Whites 45% ... Both numbers dropped to 38% and 31% by 2013 respectively. The offending rate is 6-8 times higher for blacks than it is for whites. Blacks kill blacks and whites kill whites significantly so. Also, the number of police that were shot and killed in the states is also nearing a 100 in 2015 already ... but why aren't we talking about them .. realizing the amount of violent situations they find themselves in?
When we talk about crime being demarkated along racial lines, then why do liberals ignore the stats that suggest that by and large the minorities commit more violent crimes than the majority .. Now how they end up in these situtations is yet another debate and I'm willing to concede that assimilation is part of the problem (not the entire problem because the majority of blacks and other minorities are non-violent) ... And they also live successful and happy lives. Racism is a problem, but it is not as pervasive as it is made out to be when you actually examine the statistics.
The problem here is the politicization of killings, crime and what I see as human rights violations (in terms of police brutality as a whole) into a race war when if you look at the overall context, it's not a strictly race problem, but a police power combined with overall aggression and prevalence of violent crime problem in the States. When we fail to address the overall nature of the problem and only try to make it a race one, then we reveal our ignorance of the larger issue at hand and therefore fail to act appropriately in the direction it needs to be acted upon.
But please ... feel free to ignore the overall nuance of the situation for your propaganda. Also feel free to ignore the mountains of evidence presented above though. It counters your "cops are racist" crap, but that's not going to change your mind. It's too bullheadedly stuck inside a single-minded narrative.