Yet they account for about the same percentage of overall crime....especially when you look at the crime numbers specifically of young black men. Take young violent criminals and give them an unhealthy paranoia about cops and you get more people killed by cops.
And location... But why would they do that...??? We're talking about black folks here. But, pay close attention to how some white folks are so easily distracted by black folks that they don't even pay attention to the hispanic and white numbers... And hispanics may be on their way to being the majority... It's like they're driving and not paying attention to the road.
Take cops who racially profile either explicitly or implicitly working in a system which discriminates against minorities explicitly and implicitly and you tend to get people who are wary of police. This isn't an "unhealthy paranoia" that gets people killed - it's a mostly unintentional bias against black men. Even when black people do not pose as much of a danger (e.g. they are unarmed) they appear to be killed at a higher rate than other groups. Social science research appears to point toward a constant operation of implicit bias in which black men are perceived as more dangerous which influences even well-meaning police officers. So, when everything supports you as being targeted in a way in which others are not, that's not an "unhealthy paranoia" - it's steely eyed realism.
