A few months ago I responded to one of your articles on Medium, before they booted me again, and gave some statistics comparing black and white treatment by cops. The statistics are not favorable.

I don't think you recognized me and I didn't identify myself because I would just have been booted that much sooner. Medium has some algorithmic scan for people who have disagreed with any tenet of "gender ideology" and they ban us on sight. Medium has decided that protecting the enraged "trans" activists (like the one whose header image is "her" flipping off the reader) as their prime imperative. Debate is transphobic. Anyway.

I was with you on this until you got to "everybody coming together to solve a common problem." You're a good man Steve but that stuff is just starry-eyed, it is not going to happen. We're seeing the beginning of solutions with body cameras that override dishonest reports. That's law. I doubt everyone came together and prayed and sang a song before they all held hands and approved making cops wear cameras that tell What Really Happened. I bet there was a lot of pushback on that but it could not be too vigorous because opposition to it is not very defensible.

If Rosalyn actually believes that all sources are trustworthy, she's a little umm off. That's past naïve. And if she's getting her data from Twitter, well, Musk recently interviewed and pulled that "who gets to decide" shit on defining misinformation.

But cops are disproportionately violent and murderous to black people. If I recall, about four times as much. This is not a genocidal statistic but it ain't good. I've read it so many times:

"I need to see your driver's license"

Man reaches into his jacket for his wallet.

Cop shoots him in the head.

"I thought he was reaching for a gun"

But the murder statistics are the only quantifiable part of the tale. What you won't find any statistics for is the intimidation. Whether or not the cop swaggers in his power, and many do, a black driver pulled over for any trivial reason probably has his pulse go to 150 wondering if this is his last minute of life. When I got pulled over, me with my titanium oxide complexion, the worst I feared was a fine and my politeness and concession got me out of that almost always. Yes, officer, I was speeding, I have no excuse. "Move along."

As for the general topic, we are in a crisis of misinformation right now. In so many subjects. Rosalyn believes the cops are killing black people for sport and it's only recently that killing a black man finally got a cop into prison.

I have a friend I talk to every Sunday, and "trans" is off limits because he thinks they're just peaceful people being true to who they are and only want to be left alone. He thinks the violent episodes and all the death threats are equivalent to antifa attacking the Capitol. I've tried to ask him where he gets this crap and he just blows up like I'm some Republican bigot.

Trump supporters claim to believe he won the election. Libertarians believe the government is after their freedom. Gun nuts think there's a conspiracy to disarm them so government can enslave them. There is no reaching any of these people, and I hope I don't need to mention "confirmation bias."