Posted on 08/27/2016 12:10:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
After threatening to sue, the Chicago Tribune has obtained data from the city’s police department that tracks every time an officer has opened fire in the city over the past six years. The vast majority of those hit were black men or boys.
There were 435 police shootings from 2010 through 2015, in which officers killed 92 people and wounded 170 others. In all, officers fired 2,623 bullets.
The newspaper’s findings show about four out of every five people shot were African-American males. It found that about half of the officers involved were African-American or Hispanic and most of them had years of experience and were not rookies. …
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I want Trump to win, and I'll live with him telling people what they want to hear to get their vote, but what actual policy change do you think Trump can implement that will improve the conditions of poor black people?
Is he going to tell those fathers to stop leaving the mothers and their children?
I suppose he means he's going to create jobs and spread prosperity, but that is *NOT* what is wrong with the Black Community.
The problems of the Black community are mostly moral and spiritual, and they won't get solved by more money.
True and false. Blacks get the NBA jobs because more of them are better at it. There's nothing racist about the best employee getting the job. (Unless you're a manufacturer, a bank, an insurance company, a retail supplier, a restaurant, a repair shop...)
To butt out of where God should be, would be a good start.
I merely responded to a pestering trio of comments by you to me to which I tried to respond amicably. In your contrarian fashion you chose further attack. Rest assured Mister High Tech Redneck, this is my last communication with you.
At any rate, do you disavow such a thing now?
Promise?
Libs are insane. TAKE the cops out of the neighborhoods and let the animals kill each other off.
Protect the perimeter of other neighborhoods.
WHAT obama want is a federal police force.
Too bad Mr. Trash is being taen out in 5 months by Trump.
And there were over 3700 blacks MURDERED by other BLACKS..but hey, its OK when blacks kill other blacks they are justified, because of slavery they are entitled to a couple of free murders in their lifetime
Both of you need to back off! Now!
“Police shoot more criminals than non-criminals ... hold the presses.”
Yeah, and in other “breaking news,” the Sun came up again this morning!
The residents of Chicago are on track to replicate that six-year performance in the space of a single month this month (August 2016).
REPORT: Black males are among the NBA’s most injured.
This statement shows such a lack of cognizance of the situation that I am literally dumbfounded that anyone would have said such a thing.
Their areas are "high-crime" precisely because they live there. Their feral young men without fathers *CAUSE* the high crime.
The only way any president can (help) create jobs is to get government out of the way. Prosperity will spread among those who are willing and equipped to take and work the resulting jobs. But you can't force the underclass to participate.
What does that even mean? Your answers would be more useful if they could be comprehended.
We can throw all sorts of money at educating the inner city but if the desire is not there to learn and pay the price of working at it then it's not ever going to work.
Chicago. Nothing left to say.
Agreed.
In other news, black men, boys in Chicago are 10 times more violent and criminal than whites, Hispanics and Asians. Furthermore, they are responsible for 90% of all violent crimes (rape, murder, robbery) in the city.
Let’s see...what else if true...
99.9% of shooting by cops were against criminals. How the MSM twists the facts.
Pretty sure black men and boys are mostly shot by black men and boys. Quite sure. 100% sure. Occasionally shot by cops (of any color) and very rarely by persons of any other sex and/or race.
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