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Message: [QUOTE="Porthoz, post: 2912465, member: 2221"] I absolutely believe there is a bias against black and hispanic people, but I do not believe it's based on racism, but rather circumstances where the percentage of black and hispanic population is more likely to be criminal, and more importantly a life threat to police officers. That this results in incidents where an "innocent" black or hispanic gets shot, cannot be a surprise to anyone, and are, outside of rare and isolated racially motivated shootings, a consequence of the police officer's fear for his life (warranted or not). The reasons behind this issue are many, rooted in a past of violent racial discrimination, a deep mistrust of authority, allied to the unwillingness and/or ability to invest in solutions that genuinely make gangs' (and the fear they cause amongst their own) existence impossible. [/QUOTE]

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