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  • HoraceH Offline
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    Horace
    wrote on last edited by
    #204

    The next step would then be to try to generate numbers about whether police action is neutral. it becomes very difficult. But do go ahead and keep trolling. We're all impressed, as usual.

    Education is extremely important.

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    • AxtremusA Axtremus

      @Jolly said in Not a riot:

      Weren't there twice as many whites as blacks killed by police last year?

      Do not cracker lives matter?

      Help! I'm being oppressed!

      Whites outnumber blacks 7 to 1.
      On a per capita basis, blacks are over 3x more likely to be killed by police.
      You can complain about being oppressed when the whites are more likely to be killed by police than blacks on a per capita basis.
      Until then, bitching about it just shows that you’re a whiny little snowflake who is bad at math.

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      Copper
      wrote on last edited by
      #205

      @Axtremus said in Not a riot:

      @Jolly said in Not a riot:

      Weren't there twice as many whites as blacks killed by police last year?

      Do not cracker lives matter?

      Help! I'm being oppressed!

      Whites outnumber blacks 7 to 1.
      On a per capita basis, blacks are over 3x more likely to be killed by police.
      You can complain about being oppressed when the whites are more likely to be killed by police than blacks on a per capita basis.
      Until then, bitching about it just shows that you’re a whiny little snowflake who is bad at math.

      I don't like to judge based on skin color.

      But since you brought it up, what is the skin color for people who commit crimes?

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      • AxtremusA Axtremus

        @Jolly said in Not a riot:

        Weren't there twice as many whites as blacks killed by police last year?

        Do not cracker lives matter?

        Help! I'm being oppressed!

        Whites outnumber blacks 7 to 1.
        On a per capita basis, blacks are over 3x more likely to be killed by police.
        You can complain about being oppressed when the whites are more likely to be killed by police than blacks on a per capita basis.
        Until then, bitching about it just shows that you’re a whiny little snowflake who is bad at math.

        LarryL Offline
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        Larry
        wrote on last edited by
        #206

        @Axtremus said in Not a riot:

        @Jolly said in Not a riot:

        Weren't there twice as many whites as blacks killed by police last year?

        Do not cracker lives matter?

        Help! I'm being oppressed!

        Whites outnumber blacks 7 to 1.
        On a per capita basis, blacks are over 3x more likely to be killed by police.
        You can complain about being oppressed when the whites are more likely to be killed by police than blacks on a per capita basis.
        Until then, bitching about it just shows that you’re a whiny little snowflake who is bad at math.

        You're the one who can't do the math. Blacks account for 13% of the population, but account for 55% of the violent crime. 97% of the violent crimes they commit are against other blacks. More whites are killed by police than blacks, even though while whites account for (according to your own figures, which are wrong) 7 times the number of people, only account for 40% of the violent crimes. Trying to draw conclusions from per capita data doesn't tell anyone a damned thing.

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        • 89th8 Offline
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          89th
          wrote on last edited by
          #207

          Actually it might tell us that cops kill whites on a per-crime-capita basis more often? My head hurts with all the math. I think @jon-nyc should convert this into the next puzzle.

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          • LarryL Offline
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            Larry
            wrote on last edited by
            #208

            Except for one little detail... they dont.

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            • AxtremusA Axtremus

              @Horace said in Not a riot:

              @Axtremus said in Not a riot:

              @Jolly said in Not a riot:

              Weren't there twice as many whites as blacks killed by police last year?

              Do not cracker lives matter?

              Help! I'm being oppressed!

              Whites outnumber blacks 7 to 1.
              On a per capita basis, blacks are over 3x more likely to be killed by police.
              You can complain about being oppressed when the whites are more likely to be killed by police than blacks on a per capita basis.
              Until then, bitching about it just shows that you’re a whiny little snowflake who is bad at math.

              No, you're being dishonest, because I think you're smarter than that, Ax. The folk who were "good at math" would want to normalize not to the number of people but to the amount of police worthy action generated by the people.

              You're the dishonest one here because your proposed method assumes that the generation of police worthy action is color neutral. I expect you to be smarter than that.

              jon-nycJ Offline
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              jon-nyc
              wrote on last edited by
              #209

              @Axtremus said in Not a riot:

              @Horace said in Not a riot:

              @Axtremus said in Not a riot:

              @Jolly said in Not a riot:

              Weren't there twice as many whites as blacks killed by police last year?

              Do not cracker lives matter?

              Help! I'm being oppressed!

              Whites outnumber blacks 7 to 1.
              On a per capita basis, blacks are over 3x more likely to be killed by police.
              You can complain about being oppressed when the whites are more likely to be killed by police than blacks on a per capita basis.
              Until then, bitching about it just shows that you’re a whiny little snowflake who is bad at math.

              No, you're being dishonest, because I think you're smarter than that, Ax. The folk who were "good at math" would want to normalize not to the number of people but to the amount of police worthy action generated by the people.

              You're the dishonest one here because your proposed method assumes that the generation of police worthy action is color neutral. I expect you to be smarter than that.

              There's always the theory that police are more likely to ignore white crime, say. But that theory falls apart when you look at murders, since they can't really be ignored (what with the dead body and all). The differential rates of murder between blacks and every other ethnic group are of a piece with the differential rates in other violent crime statistics.

              Only non-witches get due process.

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              • LarryL Larry

                Except for one little detail... they dont.

                89th8 Offline
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                89th
                wrote on last edited by
                #210

                @Larry said in Not a riot:

                Except for one little detail... they dont.

                My reply was in support of your post, btw.

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                • AxtremusA Axtremus

                  @Horace said in Not a riot:

                  @Axtremus said in Not a riot:

                  @Jolly said in Not a riot:

                  Weren't there twice as many whites as blacks killed by police last year?

                  Do not cracker lives matter?

                  Help! I'm being oppressed!

                  Whites outnumber blacks 7 to 1.
                  On a per capita basis, blacks are over 3x more likely to be killed by police.
                  You can complain about being oppressed when the whites are more likely to be killed by police than blacks on a per capita basis.
                  Until then, bitching about it just shows that you’re a whiny little snowflake who is bad at math.

                  No, you're being dishonest, because I think you're smarter than that, Ax. The folk who were "good at math" would want to normalize not to the number of people but to the amount of police worthy action generated by the people.

                  You're the dishonest one here because your proposed method assumes that the generation of police worthy action is color neutral. I expect you to be smarter than that.

                  JollyJ Offline
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                  Jolly
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                  #211

                  @Axtremus said in Not a riot:

                  @Horace said in Not a riot:

                  @Axtremus said in Not a riot:

                  @Jolly said in Not a riot:

                  Weren't there twice as many whites as blacks killed by police last year?

                  Do not cracker lives matter?

                  Help! I'm being oppressed!

                  Whites outnumber blacks 7 to 1.
                  On a per capita basis, blacks are over 3x more likely to be killed by police.
                  You can complain about being oppressed when the whites are more likely to be killed by police than blacks on a per capita basis.
                  Until then, bitching about it just shows that you’re a whiny little snowflake who is bad at math.

                  No, you're being dishonest, because I think you're smarter than that, Ax. The folk who were "good at math" would want to normalize not to the number of people but to the amount of police worthy action generated by the people.

                  You're the dishonest one here because your proposed method assumes that the generation of police worthy action is color neutral. I expect you to be smarter than that.

                  I used to go through the gates of Angola about twice a month. Blacks constitute 33% of Louisiana's population, but they make up 76% of the prison's population.

                  The majority will die there.

                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  • 89th8 89th

                    @Larry said in Not a riot:

                    Except for one little detail... they dont.

                    My reply was in support of your post, btw.

                    LarryL Offline
                    LarryL Offline
                    Larry
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #212

                    @89th said in Not a riot:

                    @Larry said in Not a riot:

                    Except for one little detail... they dont.

                    My reply was in support of your post, btw.

                    Thanks. I can never figure out what you're trying to say.

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                    • LuFins DadL Offline
                      LuFins DadL Offline
                      LuFins Dad
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #213

                      @89th made perfect sense to me.

                      Another distinction worth considering is how many police officers are killed by African American males vs Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, etc...

                      I’m not projecting, I don’t know the answer, but could it be that officers feel more at risk by African Americans and do the numbers support that concern?

                      The Brad

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                      • MikM Away
                        MikM Away
                        Mik
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #214

                        You're not supposed to look at that stuff. That's racist.

                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                        • MikM Mik

                          You're not supposed to look at that stuff. That's racist.

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                          xenon
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #215

                          @Mik that’s my biggest frustration with this whole topic. You have to be so sensitive when discussing.

                          I’m completely open to the possibility that I’m wrong and having my mind changed. But you can’t even question certain axioms.

                          I had a hilarious convo with a coworker yesterday where we slowly confirmed for a few mins that the other wasn’t overly-woke. Then had a decent convo after.

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                          • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                            @89th made perfect sense to me.

                            Another distinction worth considering is how many police officers are killed by African American males vs Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, etc...

                            I’m not projecting, I don’t know the answer, but could it be that officers feel more at risk by African Americans and do the numbers support that concern?

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                            89th
                            wrote on last edited by 89th
                            #216

                            @LuFins-Dad said in Not a riot:

                            I’m not projecting, I don’t know the answer, but could it be that officers feel more at risk by African Americans and do the numbers support that concern?

                            temp_stats.png

                            So, here are the stats:

                            • These are "Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed"
                            • Black line = black people
                            • Green line = white people
                            • Most killings were from either a black or white person
                            • TOP CHART: Raw numbers by year, in most years, white people kill cops more.
                            • BOTTOM CHART: If you account that black people are 13.1% of the population and white people are 49.7% of the population, proportion to the respective race, in all years black people kill more cops.

                            In other words, to answer your question, an officer feels more at risk by black citizens as they (proportional to their race) are 2.7x more likely to kill a cop.

                            I can already hear @Aqua-Letifer fuming over the simplification of these numbers, but I wanted to answer @LuFins-Dad 's question.

                            Source: https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2017/tables/table-42.xls

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                            • 89th8 89th

                              @LuFins-Dad said in Not a riot:

                              I’m not projecting, I don’t know the answer, but could it be that officers feel more at risk by African Americans and do the numbers support that concern?

                              temp_stats.png

                              So, here are the stats:

                              • These are "Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed"
                              • Black line = black people
                              • Green line = white people
                              • Most killings were from either a black or white person
                              • TOP CHART: Raw numbers by year, in most years, white people kill cops more.
                              • BOTTOM CHART: If you account that black people are 13.1% of the population and white people are 49.7% of the population, proportion to the respective race, in all years black people kill more cops.

                              In other words, to answer your question, an officer feels more at risk by black citizens as they (proportional to their race) are 2.7x more likely to kill a cop.

                              I can already hear @Aqua-Letifer fuming over the simplification of these numbers, but I wanted to answer @LuFins-Dad 's question.

                              Source: https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2017/tables/table-42.xls

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                              Aqua Letifer
                              wrote on last edited by Aqua Letifer
                              #217

                              @89th said in Not a riot:

                              In other words, to answer your question, an officer feels more at risk by black citizens as they (proportional to their race) are 2.7x more likely to kill a cop.

                              Blacks have killed more cops because a great many of them live in neighborhoods in which more cops are killed, not because melanin levels make you enjoy killing cops 2.7 times as much.

                              Also, that's historical data, not a future projection. Those numbers don't mean that blacks are 2.7 times more likely to kill a police officer, they mean that police officers have been killed by blacks 2.7 times more often than whites. Those two aren't the same.

                              Please love yourself.

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                                89th
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                                #218

                                No need to talk about Trump’s wife that way.

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                                  Aqua Letifer
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                                  #219

                                  I'd love to hear her take on this actually. That would be better than watching MAS*H.

                                  Please love yourself.

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                                  • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                    @89th said in Not a riot:

                                    In other words, to answer your question, an officer feels more at risk by black citizens as they (proportional to their race) are 2.7x more likely to kill a cop.

                                    Blacks have killed more cops because a great many of them live in neighborhoods in which more cops are killed, not because melanin levels make you enjoy killing cops 2.7 times as much.

                                    Also, that's historical data, not a future projection. Those numbers don't mean that blacks are 2.7 times more likely to kill a police officer, they mean that police officers have been killed by blacks 2.7 times more often than whites. Those two aren't the same.

                                    JollyJ Offline
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                                    Jolly
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #220

                                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Not a riot:

                                    @89th said in Not a riot:

                                    In other words, to answer your question, an officer feels more at risk by black citizens as they (proportional to their race) are 2.7x more likely to kill a cop.

                                    Blacks have killed more cops because a great many of them live in neighborhoods in which more cops are killed, not because melanin levels make you enjoy killing cops 2.7 times as much.

                                    Also, that's historical data, not a future projection. Those numbers don't mean that blacks are 2.7 times more likely to kill a police officer, they mean that police officers have been killed by blacks 2.7 times more often than whites. Those two aren't the same.

                                    Have facts become useless?

                                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                    • George KG George K

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Not a riot:

                                      No fires were set there then, and nothing was thrown at police.

                                      https://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/6_2_20_statement_from_acting_chief_monahan.htm

                                      United States Park Police acting Chief Gregory Monahan.

                                      On Monday, June 1, the USPP worked with the United States Secret Service to have temporary fencing installed inside Lafayette Park. At approximately 6:33 pm, violent protestors on H Street NW began throwing projectiles including bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids. The protestors also climbed onto a historic building at the north end of Lafayette Park that was destroyed by arson days prior. Intelligence had revealed calls for violence against the police, and officers found caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street.

                                      You're saying the Chief of Police for the Park Service is mistaken?

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                                      Axtremus
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #221

                                      @George-K said in Not a riot:

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Not a riot:

                                      No fires were set there then, and nothing was thrown at police.

                                      https://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/6_2_20_statement_from_acting_chief_monahan.htm

                                      United States Park Police acting Chief Gregory Monahan.

                                      On Monday, June 1, the USPP worked with the United States Secret Service to have temporary fencing installed inside Lafayette Park. At approximately 6:33 pm, violent protestors on H Street NW began throwing projectiles including bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids. The protestors also climbed onto a historic building at the north end of Lafayette Park that was destroyed by arson days prior. Intelligence had revealed calls for violence against the police, and officers found caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street.

                                      You're saying the Chief of Police for the Park Service is mistaken?

                                      @George-K , yes, the Chief of Police for the Park Service is mistaken.

                                      The WUSA9 news crew found tear gas canisters on site at the time and documented their findings:

                                      https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/tear-gas-washington-dc-protests-st-johns-church/65-7e9a67c7-e40b-47a2-8060-3f7d908139dd

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                                      • AxtremusA Axtremus

                                        @George-K said in Not a riot:

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Not a riot:

                                        No fires were set there then, and nothing was thrown at police.

                                        https://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/6_2_20_statement_from_acting_chief_monahan.htm

                                        United States Park Police acting Chief Gregory Monahan.

                                        On Monday, June 1, the USPP worked with the United States Secret Service to have temporary fencing installed inside Lafayette Park. At approximately 6:33 pm, violent protestors on H Street NW began throwing projectiles including bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids. The protestors also climbed onto a historic building at the north end of Lafayette Park that was destroyed by arson days prior. Intelligence had revealed calls for violence against the police, and officers found caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street.

                                        You're saying the Chief of Police for the Park Service is mistaken?

                                        @George-K , yes, the Chief of Police for the Park Service is mistaken.

                                        The WUSA9 news crew found tear gas canisters on site at the time and documented their findings:

                                        https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/tear-gas-washington-dc-protests-st-johns-church/65-7e9a67c7-e40b-47a2-8060-3f7d908139dd

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                                        George K
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                                        #222

                                        @Axtremus said in Not a riot:

                                        @George-K said in Not a riot:

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Not a riot:

                                        No fires were set there then, and nothing was thrown at police.

                                        You're saying the Chief of Police for the Park Service is mistaken?

                                        @George-K , yes, the Chief of Police for the Park Service is mistaken.

                                        The WUSA9 news crew found tear gas canisters on site at the time and documented their findings:

                                        https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/tear-gas-washington-dc-protests-st-johns-church/65-7e9a67c7-e40b-47a2-8060-3f7d908139dd

                                        And so, apparently, is Aqua:

                                        While some agitators threw water bottles at advancing police, one agitator hurled a firework towards officers that fell short and caused panic among retreating protesters.

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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