. Let us review.

. This exchange began by my responding to a posting suggesting that “necklacing” would be an appropriate response to the failure of a black gentleman in New York City refusing to press charges against the white lady who called the police on him without reason. I responded to that posting by suggesting to the original author that his posting was dangerous and that it might cause someone to try to harm the black man.

. You responded by saying that I was wrong because to forbid violence when violence is all around was wrong. You then went on to say that the woman was attempting to murder the black man. The only rational interpretation of your remarks was that a white woman calling the police to intervene and perhaps arrest a black man meant she wanted to kill him.

. Before responding to you then, I went back to check the text of the original post. I found that the author had removed the section dealing with necklacing. I actually thought that would have ended our exchange. But you wanted to see if I had other objections. Looking back, I really should not have responded. But I did.

. I responded by saying that your interpretation was wrong and, overall,there weren’t many cases of police killing people they arrest. I then suggested you were seeking “woke” points from people. Although offered in jest, you didn’t take it that way, and, so, I apologize.

. Now, to substance.

. Thank you for your research! That report was very helpful. Sine the copy I received was not paginated, I will quote by referring to the places where the footnotes appear:

(after note 59)

… force was employed in fewer than 4% of [law enforcement] contacts for all racial/ethnic groups in 2008…

(after note 60)

… , a recent study using FBI arrest and NVSS injury data found higher arrest/stop rates and higher rates of legal intervention deaths among blacks than whites. However, the authors found no differences in rates of injury or death per 10,000 stops/arrests by race — that is, blacks and whites were equally likely to be injured or killed during a stop/arrest incident. These findings — from one study — suggest that disparities in fatality rates by race may be accounted for, in part, by differential rates of police contact through stops or arrests.

. You then went on to call me a racism denier. How you could have derived that from my answer here-or from anywhere I have ever posted-is impossible for any rational person to understand. I assure you that I fully understand that racism has been baked into our law (including arrest rates), our economy and our souls and must be eradicated. As for your other insults, they are so literally insane and without foundation that they need not be repeated here.

. However, I admit that interaction has enriched me in two ways. First, the study to which you referred me is useful. Second, I have again learned not to rise to the bait when discussion will not be respectful or likely to be productive.