A nice conservative lady who is just as anti-Trump and leftist as the Bulwark's founder? A lady who's body of work over the last three years belies her conservative claim? Her columns are written from a clear, unabashed bias, using all the right progressive liberal buzzwords and talking points. As to this particular article, she undeniably makes some good points (she's an excellent writer, for the most part, even when I disagree with her), but she also picks and chooses per points, studies, and data very carefully. She pretends to do a deep dive on police racism (again, makes some good points), but her objective is police racism and not a full picture. She has a short, throwaway paragraph on fuller context, but quickly dismisses it with an "and yet" in the next paragraph. She screwed the pooch when she broached the "Was it the sheer accumulation of cases?" without giving the full context of cases. The sheer accumulation of cases, if you look only or primarily at those cases in a vacuum, it's alarming, but if looked as in the context of hundreds of millions of black interactions with the police, the sheer accumulation is miniscule.
Do the police (and the populace at large) view whites, blacks and every other ethnic group differently? Of course they (and we) do. Everybody is a little bit racist. We're all pattern recognition machines, and we're hard wired to treat "different" as different. People are people, and how individuals deal with their own racism is what matters. Are blacks pulled over for driving while black? Yes they are, and it shouldn't happen, but it does. It also happens the other way around. It happened to me. I can give the details if anyone is interested, but it's just an isolated case. But if I gathered up a whole bunch of similar isolated cases, would the sheer number of them make any difference?
