Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

Well I'm not visiting the Vatican City. As an Orangeman I would have nothing to come home with.

A LEADING solicitor has told a court that he was the victim of a daylight robbery bid in Edinburgh city centre.

Civil law expert Charles McGregor told a jury yesterday police took a long time to respond to the alleged incident, given that it happened around the corner from a police station.

Mr McGregor, 48, said a man barged into him and demanded he hand over his wallet outside his office at lunchtime.

To Mr McGregor’s horror, his assailant then pulled out a knife and slashed him across the cheek, sending his glasses flying, he said.

Read more: http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/knife-attack-victim-slams-slow-police-response-1-3908568#ixzz3rDe6KqqF

And the latest police killing (I think it is as they happen so often) is the man (wadda ye know, black) who was gunned down. Seems in an incident during an arrest he was intervening with ambulance men picking someone up and it is being said he was gunned??

The vast majority of shootings Do involve blacks so a neat try in what you allege.

“Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks die at the hands of police,” he [Mr. Moskos] said. “Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police. Mr. Moskos listed two possible reasons for the racial disparity. The first is that police assigned to largely black neighborhoods face “more political fallout when they shoot, and thus receive better training and are less inclined to shoot.”
The second is that police assigned to black communities with high crime rates are more accustomed to dangerous situations and thus are more likely to be able to resolve them without resort to lethal force.
Figures on police shootings by race are thin on the ground, but Mr. Moskos’s results have some support: The investigative journalism website ProPublica came up with a similar percentage in an Oct. 10 article, reporting that 44 percent of all those killed by police were white, using FBI data from 1980 to 2012. The fact-checking website PolitiFact concluded in August 2014 that police kill more whites than blacks after the claim was made by conservative commentator Michael Medved. PolitiFact cited data from the Centers for Disease Control on fatal injuries by “legal intervention” from 1999 to 2011. “Over the span of more than a decade, 2,151 whites died by being shot by police compared to 1,130 blacks. In that respect, Medved is correct,” said PolitiFact. But PolitiFact gave his assertion a “half true” rating because whites make up 63 percent of the population, while blacks make up just 12 percent. “Yes, more whites than blacks die as a result of an encounter with police, but whites also represent a much bigger chunk of the total population,” PolitiFact said in its Aug. 21 post. But PolitiFact did not take into account the percentage of those by race involved in violent crime or shootings of police, as Mr. Moskos did. Despite the recent flood of media coverage involving police shootings, Mr. Moskos advised his readers to “keep all this morbidity in perspective,” reminding them that very few people, white or black, will ever be shot or killed by police. “The odds that any given black man will shoot and kill a police officer in any given year is slim to none, about one in a million. The odds for any given white man? One in four million,” he said. “The odds that a black man will be shot and killed by a police officer is about 1 in 60,000. For a white man those odds are 1 in 200,000.”
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