The non-Hispanic White homicide rate [0] is 10.7, and the Black homicide rate is 79.6 [1]. The rate of police killings is 24 for Whites, and 70 for Blacks [2]. This means that, for every homicide committed by a White person, the police kill 2.24 White people, while for every homicide committed by a Black person, the police kill 0.88 Black people.<p>Given these numbers, one would expect there would be about 2.5x more civil rights cases alleging the police are excessively violent towards Whites, as there are such cases alleging they are excessively violent towards Blacks.<p>This is not remotely the case, yet they NYTimes uncritically believes all those civil rights prosecutions, and reserves their doubts about the justice system only for criminal prosecutions and police work. There is not a hint in their article of the remotest possibility that any "civil rights work" could have been in error.<p>[0] All rates given per one million population per year.<p>[1] <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls" rel="nofollow">https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...</a> - subtract Hispanic perpetrators from the White ones (for some reason the FBI combined White and Hispanic/Latino) and use US demographics to get per-capita numbers.<p>[2] <a href="https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/" rel="nofollow">https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/</a> - For the 2013 - 2023 period. Unlike the FBI, they count Hispanic and White separately.