「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"?
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TomtitsVictims getting shot by the police happens regularly to non-rich people in regular homes. I would say the risk is at least less than normal, because rich neighborhoods can afford better police services. However, it’s still definitely not zero and is definitely much higher than for white people.
and is definitely much higher than for white people.
That’s not necessarily true. While blacks are shot by police at a higher rate than whites, blacks are also arrested by police for violent crimes at a higher rate than whites. If you adjust for apparent difference in violent criminality by race, it suggests that police are actually more willing to shoot whites than blacks.
Now, it is possible that the data is bad, that the bar for arresting a black is so significantly lower than for arresting a white, as to give incomparable racial violent crime rates by which to estimate how often police shootings might occur. Similarly, it is possible that blacks are more likely to display exaggerated passive body language for fear of being shot, while whites are more likely to present themselves in an ambiguous or hostile manner as they don’t believe it is likely they will be shot.
However, an argument in favor of what the data suggests, is that police shootings of blacks are far more likely to result in protests, riots, and rare criminal prosecution of the police, while police shootings of whites, no matter how unjustified, never receive such responses.
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jeffwWhere I live (Denmark) very very near zero. A burglar (disregarding color), breaking into a rich mans house would also be near zero risk of getting shot by police.
Very little
I’m the US the millionaire status really doesn’t change things.
I think it already happened. But I can’t find (can’t be bothered to look up) any articles. In the meantime, check out the Tulsa Massacre.
1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Museum of Tulsa History
Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was referred to as “Black Wall Street.”
I work in 911 dispatch, and we have some really rich towns in the county I work for
And I have one story that makes me think it’s at least something that’s on their minds
I got a call from one of those neighborhoods for a breaking and entering. The caller had been out of the house and came home to find that someone had broken in while they were gone.
I’m gathering all of the information, and without me prompting he starts giving me his description - 6ft-whatever black man, wearing blah blah blah, and that he’ll be waiting by the front door etc.
And it just felt very clear to me that he knows unless he is very upfront about that, that when the cops get there, there’s a really damn good chance that they’re immediately going to assume he’s a suspect and not the homeowner.
Googled him later, former NBA player, I don’t follow sports but apparently he was kind of a big deal when he was playing. Not sure what his net worth is, but houses in that neighborhood tend to sell for several million.
Probably the nicest caller I’ve ever gotten from that neighborhood, and with the best reason to call. Another guy nearby once got into a fight with an Amazon driver because he had the audacity to pull into his driveway.
As an aside, that is how B&Es happen. Unless it’s your crazy ex or something looking to start shit with you, they’re not breaking into your home while you’re home, they want to take your shit and get the fuck out they don’t want a confrontation with you. I admittedly work in an overall pretty safe area, but we do have some pretty shitty towns as well as the mega rich, but after 7 years on the job I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a call for an in-progress B&E while someone was home where they didn’t know the person trying to break in (and usually there was a very specific, though usually not particularly good, reason they were trying to break in- they wanted to take back something they gave the person, were trying to retrieve their own belongings, they just wanted to fight or trash the place because they were mad at them, etc.)
And it’s almost always in the super rich neighborhoods where houses are spaced far apart, the residents can afford to take long vacations far from home, and there’s lots of valuable stuff to steal left unattended while they’re gone. To a lesser extent it happens in the really shitty neighborhoods. It’s almost unheard of in the rest of suburbia.