But surely the context of the interaction between black people and the police matters? How likely are blacks to initiate violence against officers? If blacks are X times more violent (in general), but only Y (<X) times more violent when interacting with the police, then officers should base their expectations on the Y number (which takes context into account), not on X (which is based on a general statistic).
But surely the context of the interaction between black people and the police matters? How likely are blacks to initiate violence against officers? If blacks are X times more violent (in general), but only Y (<X) times more violent when interacting with the police, then officers should base their expectations on the Y number (which takes context into account), not on X (which is based on a general statistic).