I have a weird question that it would be interesting to hear your responses to. I spent 5 years working at a liquor store where they had an incentive where if we caught someone less than 21 years of age trying to buy alcohol, we would get 200 dollars. I live in a city that has a good enough black population that it's not the "I've never met a black person, so all I have to deal with is a hypothetical," kind of situation.
So I have witnessed at least 30 cases of police dealing with black people who are under 21 doing a minor crime and over 100 white people dealing with the same crime. In my city, they treated the black people better.
There are all kinds of problems treating that kind of thing as empirical evidence. It's for various reasons, not least of which, it's a minor crime and not really having much to do with the crimes we actually want to stop.
There are all kinds of problems treating that kind of thing as anecdotal evidence. It's not systematic, there are biases, but it's not anywhere resembling "this guy on the street told me." You 2 are in a position where you could make a word that is stronger than anecdotal but doesn't actually mean we should take this as the law, What would that word be?
I have a weird question that it would be interesting to hear your responses to. I spent 5 years working at a liquor store where they had an incentive where if we caught someone less than 21 years of age trying to buy alcohol, we would get 200 dollars. I live in a city that has a good enough black population that it's not the "I've never met a black person, so all I have to deal with is a hypothetical," kind of situation.
So I have witnessed at least 30 cases of police dealing with black people who are under 21 doing a minor crime and over 100 white people dealing with the same crime. In my city, they treated the black people better.
There are all kinds of problems treating that kind of thing as empirical evidence. It's for various reasons, not least of which, it's a minor crime and not really having much to do with the crimes we actually want to stop.
There are all kinds of problems treating that kind of thing as anecdotal evidence. It's not systematic, there are biases, but it's not anywhere resembling "this guy on the street told me." You 2 are in a position where you could make a word that is stronger than anecdotal but doesn't actually mean we should take this as the law, What would that word be?