If you live in the United States, you should be disgusted with your country

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend

=White privilege may exist to some extent due to racists that still hold on to a dying trend kicking and screaming to stay relevant, the supremacist groups like the KKK which I'm surprised still exists but I'm sure even their days a numbered. But no it's not as big as some people like to make it out to be.

Well, about that...

The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.

One way of appreciating that stark disparity, ProPublica's analysis shows, is to calculate how many more whites over those three years would have had to have been killed for them to have been at equal risk. The number is jarring – 185, more than one per week.

Here have some more...

Who is killing all those black men and boys?

Mostly white officers. But in hundreds of instances, black officers, too. Black officers account for a little more than 10 percent of all fatal police shootings. Of those they kill, though, 78 percent were black.

White officers, given their great numbers in so many of the country's police departments, are well represented in all categories of police killings. White officers killed 91 percent of the whites who died at the hands of police. And they were responsible for 68 percent of the people of color killed. Those people of color represented 46 percent of all those killed by white officers.

What were the circumstances surrounding all these fatal encounters?

There were 151 instances in which police noted that teens they had shot dead had been fleeing or resisting arrest at the time of the encounter. 67 percent of those killed in such circumstances were black. That disparity was even starker in the last couple of years: of the 15 teens shot fleeing arrest from 2010 to 2012, 14 were black.

Did police always list the circumstances of the killings?

No, actually, there were many deadly shooting where the circumstances were listed as "undetermined." 77 percent of those killed in such instances were black.

I'd wager that the 78% of those killed by black officers were people of color as a result of location. There are swaths of America where there isn't a huge black population. I grew up in one such area. So, you have places where the only people FOR cops to kill are white and that unbalances things. Whereas communities where there are black officers are much more likely to have black communities as well. I bet if you only counted areas with a significant non-white population, you'd probably find white officers kill people of color somewhere above 80% of the time.