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One of the things I've noticed looking over some of the statistics regarding police brutality in the US (outsiders perspective from a country with Peelite policing style) is the ratios of deaths per police interactions. When taken in comparison with each race, police interactions with Black individuals are only 10% more likely to end in the suspect dying than an interaction with White individuals, which, while still a horrible statistic, is not as huge a difference as a number of news and media outlets are trying to put across (for reference, Hispanic interactions are more likely to end in a death than Black interactions and Asian interactions are less likely to end in a death than White interactions).

While it is clear that the US Policing system is awash with barbaric practices (in my opinion brought about by the lack of training, low hiring standards and the "Us against them" mentality present in the education officers do receive), there is a point to be made that the police are not murdering Black individuals particularly more or less than any other race.

My question; how closely intertwined do you feel that Police reform and the dismantling of the systematic racism throughout various institutions in the US are as solutions to the issue of Black lives being callously ended on an all too frequent basis in modern America? Do you feel a full police reform in the terms of the abolishment of the current system would reduce the number of Black deaths overall, or would the racism-twisted "vigilante" murders by individuals such as George Zimmerman balance out the death rates with the lack of militaristic police oversight?

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