"It's always too soon to talk about gun control"

[robkelk]

...  Please for the love of god do something about the issue of racism in our country.
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If only somebody had a solution for that problem. One that doesn't involve mass deportations or genocide, that is.

We did an actual statistical study in Ottawa last year; we had police officers write down the skin colour of every person they pulled over for a few months. (Skin colour was determined by the subjective perception of each officer.) We discovered that you're more likely to be pulled over for driving while black than you are to be pulled over for driving while white. The rates of getting pulled over for driving while aboriginal were also higher than average, but not as bad as driving while black. Driving while Asian was actually less likely to get you pulled over than driving while white.

Yes, we have statistical evidence that the police force of the capital of Canada is not colourblind in this sense.

And even after those numbers were publicized, there are still people in Ottawa who get upset when they hear the phrase "black lives matter"...