Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

The problem with this line of thinking is that you have just as little to say as the person you're claiming an advantage over.

How about either of you provide any kind of figures or actual rationale as to why police brutality is at or not at a higher level than would be reasonable to expect given population and social constraints?

FWIW, I expect that police brutality and racism is a significant issue primarily in highly urbanised areas, and that national statistics will be of very little use. I expect figures in cities like Detroit and New York to be astonishingly high and incidences of unjust police treatment to be evident in daily life, not as isolated incidences.

I posit also that this will be heavily influenced by america's problems re: social equality. The poorest neighborhoods in urban america are overwhelmingly black, and also have the lowest literacy and highest crime rates, because those neighborhoods are where the poor are forced to exist, rather than having options to live elsewhere, and because urban racism keeps ethnic minorities poor while offering greater opportunity to white people.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.