Racism and San Francisco cops

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From FiveThirtyEight:

Police Departments With Biggest Racial Discrepancies In Arrests, Killings

Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Chicago and Milwaukee had some of the largest disparities in policing outcomes between Black and white residents. 

In these cities, Black residents were policed at high rates while white residents were policed at relatively low rates. Police arrested Black people at several times the rate of white people, even for offenses like drug possession which have been found to be committed at similar rates by Black and white communities. 

And police in these cities also killed Black people at substantially higher rates than white people, even after accounting for racial differences in arrest rates....