Why do these always happen in the midwest?
Easily the most racist part of the country
That's some grade A projection right there.
Whether the South or Midwest is more racist is not easy to measure, but the Midwest is without a doubt more segregated. Just look at demographic maps of Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee. Columbus is an exception though, it's reasonably well integrated.
This is somewhat true oh, but perhaps exaggerated when one looks at maps of places like Memphis or New Orleans.
That said, the sociology Professor friend of mine I mentioned earlier in this thread once commented to me that the difference between racism in the South versus racism the north is that in the South whites tell blacks you can get as close as you want just don't get too uppity, whereas in the North White's tell blacks you can get us up as you want, just don't get too close.
Yes, and the result of this is that the over-policing of Black communities is a worse problem in highly-segregated, White ethnic cities like Cleveland and Detroit than in historically majority-Black places in the Deep South.
Where I live, Jackson, is the
only major metropolitan area in the U.S. to be majority Black. I interact with more Black people in a single day than you probably do in the course of several months. I have not seen or interacted with a single JPD officer who was White. I don't say these things to absolve the complicated racial history of where I live, but to point out that (generally speaking) racial micro-relations down here are better than in more segregated, less diverse parts of the country.
If you look at
national statistics from 2013-20, the number of police killings involving Black people was most disproportionate in the Northeast and Midwest. A Black person is Mississippi is 1.2x more likely than a White person to be killed by a police officer, while in Ohio it was 4.8x
