“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)
You can’t explain anything to the true believers.
Oh man, let’s hope not many are true believers and simply misinformed (like I used to be).
The more moderate liberals are getting some serious redpilling, both by the riots as well as the Coronavirus 180. Those that truly believe literally embrace the “by any means necessary (BAMN)” slogan and seek to destroy the US.
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.