A Modest Proposal: Police Killing Parity

According to a study by the Guardian newspaper in 2016, 1,134 American Black men were killed by the police in 2015.  The police seem to have a problem refraining from killing Black men.  It is the case that some actions are more difficult to moderate than to leave unrestrained -- take dieting, for example.  Perhaps, then, instead of trying to restrain police from killing Black men, we simply require that they kill a proportional number of White men.  In other words, for ever 2 Black men killed by the police, the police should make it their duty to kill 9 White men.

They could start with the executives responsible for the 2008 Great Recession, none of whom has ever been charged with that crime.  Not to discriminate and applying this same ratio, since Hispanics are being kill at about half the rate of Blacks, for every Hispanic that is killed by police, the police should make it their business to kill 2 additional White men.

		RACE % TOTAL NUMBER SHOT+ PER 10 million PARITY 2015 Parity Killed* Black or African American 13.4% 43,952,000 235 53.4674190 53 1,134 American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3% 4,264,000 ***** 5 110 Asian 5.9% 19,352,000 ***** 24 499 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.2% 656,000 ***** 1 17 Hispanic or Latino 18.3% 60,024,000 158 26.3228042 73 1,549 White alone, not Hispanic or Latino 60.4% 198,112,000 370 18.6763043 241 5,111 TOTAL 99.5% 328,000,000 +Statista 2020 * Guardian 2015 study ***** No data