No, I'm not saying that police are prosecuted at a higher rate than young black males. I was comparing two specific cases - the police beating case and the gang rape that occurred in my neighborhood. Because the rape case was completeley ignored while the police beating case became international news, it's one more example of how the media and the public in general feel that the alleged crime against the thugs in the police beating was far more serious or more important than the gang rape of a white woman.

How would the media and the public handled these two cases if the races were reversed - 1) three white men abduct and gang rape a black woman? (white-on-black rapes are almost statistically non-existant, but we can pretend for a moment) 2) a law abiding white citizen is pulled over and beaten by black policemen?

The answer to these questions is simple. The rape case would have become an international scandal and the police beating would have been a one line story in the Inquirer.