Post #3806885
2026-07-14 10:49 UTC
Let's play a *fun little game called Do Lives Matter!
I've shared that there are ~50 million Black people in the US and ~50 million immigrants.
There are 22,000 ICE agents going out every day with an arrest quota to detain immigrants, whether they commit a crime or not.
I've also shared that most of what US police departments do, by time, by numbers of officers, by budget, by arrest codes, is arrest non-violent and innocent Black people for minor offenses. Many police departments have an illegal quota, just like ICE.
Continued...
(*Not fun)
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 2026-07-14 10:51
I've shared that if you hire X thousand armed cops and give them a quota to arrest Y thousand people a month, that you will generate Z "uses of force." And that the vast majority of those uses of force will be against innocent people. Because there just aren't enough guilty people for the quota🤷🏿♂️ And I've shared that in Z uses of force, that a very predictable percent of them will result in one of your quota cops killing a person. And remember, statistically, most of the people that they kill will be innocent. Because quotas have them going after the entire demographic, not the criminals.