The whole narrative about an epidemic of innocent blacks being murdered by racists cops is based on this. Facts such as that blacks are underrepresented among people killed by the police compared to their level of violent crime and that studies controlling for other factors have
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not found that cops are more likely to shoot blacks than whites, are incapable of altering the narrative which continues to be supported by more anecdotes.
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Because the creation and the maintenance of a narrative can depend only on anecdotes, anything can be spewed, regardless of empirical support. Hence you have the supposed phenomenon of whites calling the police on blacks for nothing even when we never saw the data to support this
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