Chief Brown said this to the protesters:

"We're hiring. We'll give you an application. We'll help you resolve some of the problems you're protesting about."

But, Justice Ginsburg is rightly concerned about the rule of law, and election of a president who appears to be ready to violate the Constitutional oath of office, not be mistake or misunderstanding, but because he does not care.

And its gotten much worse since phones do everything. It's not a text just cuz you sent it from your phone.

My question...do you use a closing, like 'Sincerely, CST'?   I never know what to put, even all these years. I usually go with 'Thank you', since it usually applies somehow.  I really do obsess over it!

He told me stories of being handcuffed to a chair at the precinct and getting the snot beat out of him...adding it was better then in the 50's/60's because although the cops were sometimes crooked brutal thugs, there was an unwritten code that both sides lived by. You knew what warranted a beating and what didn't. And nobody got shot.

My run ins have generally been most unpleasant, though I have gotten many a clean cut whiteboy break after suffering mild indignity. I really cannot imagine the harsh systemic indignities my black and hispanic peers have suffered in the Guiliani/Bloomberg stop and frisk broken windows era.

The relationship between police and community is so rotten in many locales, I don't even know how you fix it at this point. My dislike and distrust of police has waned as I've gotten older and gotten hassled less, but I just can't see it ever disappearing completely. Some wounds run too deep.

Cancelling the war on drugs would be a good of a start as any...that's where so much of the animosity stems from and it's so f#cking unnecessary. I wonder how I'd feel if my lifestyle hasn't been criminalized my whole adult life and if cops were better at letting the little sh+t slide, so when big sh;t happens the community is more apt to cooperate.

Except for leo who are part of my social circle, essentially all of my interactions over the past 30+ years have been antagonistic. But then again, there was a long stretch where my type-A attitude put me in "marginal" situations, mostly driving-related.

The headlines I have seen do not go into numbers like that and I have not had a chance to look deeper.

In short, they're interesting, but have some important limitations, which Fryer, a MacArthur genius grant winner who was the youngest black professor to ever earn tenure at Harvard, is very open about. As he puts it, "this paper takes first steps into the treacherous terrain of understanding the nature and extent of racial differences in police use of force." It's not meant to be the last word, nor should anybody treat it that way.

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Then, of course, there are those limitations. First, much of the data on shootings comes from major cities with large black populations, which might be more sensitive about race issues in policing. This is especially striking when you consider that the most famous shooting of recent years took place in Ferguson, a small, inner-ring suburb with its own police department. "It is possible that these departments only supplied the data because they are either enlightened or were not concerned about what the analysis would reveal," Fryer writes. "In essence, this is equivalent to analyzing labor market discrimination on a set of firms willing to supply a researcher with their Human Resources data!" Who knows how the situation may look in other cities or towns. "Relatedly, even police departments willing to supply data may contain police officers who present contextual factors at that time of an incident in a biased manner," Fryer adds--which is a polite researcher's way of saying that the study relies on reports written by officers who may well be lying about what really transpired.

Readers also need to be cautious about how they interpret the findings. Once again, Fryer suggests blacks and Hispanics are no more likely to be shot than whites after they've been stopped by police. But as a few sharp writers have noted today, that doesn't tell us anything about whether people of color are being stopped excessively in the first place.....

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But data scientists and policing experts often note, comparing how many or how often white people are killed by police to how many or how often black people are killed by the police is statistically dubious unless you first adjust for population.

According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times as great as the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer.

What's more important is for people to start looking at each incident independently.  No matter what this study says, you have to look at the facts of each case.  Right now people are all upset over two recent shootings where there's no evidence of racism. 5 police officers may have been killed because of this rush to judgement.  

"Man, who would have expected the ride we're all having right now? ... The money's rolling in and this is fun," he said.

"I've never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going," said Moonves.

"Donald's place in this election is a good thing," he said Monday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco.