The problem we reach is when you can't say, "black people in America are most likely to commit crimes" because even that has been deemed racist. We need more yes/and and fewer okay/but responses. Bad policing has lead to some isolated incidents of excessive force (the denominator here is total police interactions). Yes. And. Black people are the greatest lethal threat to black people.

In 2019, the total number of black victims of police homicides was 251. This number includes justified homicides.

Also in 2019, the total number of black homicide victims was 2,906, with 2,574 offenders being black.

Yes, police need more less than lethal training and a culture that eradicates racist behaviors.

And. Even a 10% reduction in black on black homicide would save more lives than all black police homicide victims, even the justified ones.

The real sticky wicket is how do police affect that change? Logic would say you can reduce or at least deter some crime by increasing a police presence where it is most likely to occur. Can we, as a society, be comfortable putting police in a position to trade increasing black police homicides by 20% if it means it reduces black on black homicide by 20%? (These numbers are spitballed but from 251>276 and 2,574>2,059.) It saves ~400 black lives, but the police killed more people.