“Population benchmarks provide only a crude method for estimating disproportionality. They allow for an inference that force is being used in a manner that is disproportionate to presence in the general population, but do not allow for a clear inference as to whether the force is disproportionate to presence in any particular area or to legitimately provocative behavior. A more direct, albeit still limited, proxy for level of provocative behavior would be actual offending.”
- Goff et al. in Policing Equity (2016)
I was in the corona red pill camp. I did a full 180 once I started noticing the hypocrisy in real time. Unfortunately, like you say, many of my friends have only become more entrenched in their views since the pandemic.
Yep, it’s pretty sad because many of them are “educated” but don’t bother to think for themselves.