Biden is using a racial narrative to obscure the class character of police violence

[David Horn]

There is an international commission analyzing the policing in many countries (not all cooperate enough to make analysis possible). One of the primary investigators is a retired judge from the UK, and he was interviewed on NPR. Based on data,, the per capita number of police killings and non-lethal uses of force by police in the US is higher than it is in both Russia and Turkey, neither being paragons of virtue themselves. He cited two reasons: social animosity, which includes but is not limited to racism, and prevalence of guns that make all police interactions dangerous for the police and potentially deadly for both parties.

We're sick. We need to admit it.