I'm noticing a bizarre trend that when people talk about "cops" in a bad light, it's kind of assumed that all cops are white guys hell bent on harassing and or killing black men, but the data shows the same percentage of arrests, stops and shoots from women and officers of other races (actually a higher percentage in some cases)

I think the political angle is white vs black, the media is largely to blame for cherry picking the white cop vs black suspect stories and not making any of the other hundreds of stories hit national news. White cop kills white kid, that's only seen briefly by local people, hispanic cop uses excessive force on black suspect, local news if it even gets picked up at all outside of a small blurb on page 4 of the bonndock times.

If there is a training and hiring standards problem, which there has to be since those problems exist in every field, it does no good to make it a race issue when the numbers don't lie, seems to be a complicated problem of out of shape, poorly trained officers going for the gun too much in a stressful situation, and too many officers being hired that don't have the mental and emotional capacity to do the job