Police being shot numbers may be declining, but we are seeing a resurgence now, and organized anti-police “protests” that are actually “Agitator Incitements” where laws are violated by demonstrators and verbal and physical abuse done to officers doing their duty.-Even our president has verbalized anti-police myths, by on hearing the first news report of a shooting, immediate Pre-Judgments against the police involved, before even a search for facts has begun! That is a deliberate and incited Prejudice, with the goal of achieving anarchy, apparently.-Here is an excerpt from a new study by a Black researcher finding that “racism” is not shown in police shootings of black suspects in public incidents….“A new study confirms that black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement. They are more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground or pepper-sprayed by a police officer, even after accounting for how, where and when they encounter the police.
But when it comes to the most lethal form of force — police shootings
— the study finds no racial bias.
“It is the most surprising result of my career,” said Roland G. Fryer Jr., the author of the study and a professor of economics at Harvard. The study examined more than a thousand shootings in 10 major police departments, in Texas, Florida and California.
The result contradicts the mental image of police shootings that manyAmericans hold in the wake of the killings (some captured on video) ofMichael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.; Laquan McDonald in Chicago; Tamir Ricein Cleveland; Walter Scott in South Carolina; Samuel DuBose inCincinnati; Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La.; and Philando Castilein Minnesota.The study did not say whether the most egregious examples — the kindof killings at the heart of the nation’s debate on police shootings —
are free of racial bias. Instead, it examined a much larger pool of shootings, including nonfatal ones."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html-this is the source to the excerpted article above.
@superposition…well, duh! Of course prima facie as the Latins say, it is a brand new study, inconclusive, and studies after studies usually follow in time….-But the Black Professor expected the data he and his team researched did show that Blacks are not being racially targeted by US city police forces. -Heather Macdonald’s new book, with years of studies and government data and a larger body of data went into her conclusions that the actual data do not show evidence that Blacks are victims of police, or that police forces are “racist”…-Even in the Professor’s study, showing Blacks are more apt to be treated less politely than whites questioned when stopped in public, could more than likely be explained by the ATTITUDE shown by so many Blacks, as belligerent and resisting any questioning, as if they expect to be “untouchable” by authorities. Many of any ethnic group react with hostility to police, especially the ones caught in very guilty-looking circumstances. Surely bystanders in any US city could testify to reasons why police get tough with some suspects. -The words and actions of the growing War On Police demonstrators proves the hostility and hatred of contrived incitements against law enforcement, Americans’ only protection from anarchy.
One would hope the police departments everywhere would be very, very selective about whom they pin the badge on. When I was a boy my parents rented an apartment in our home to a couple, the husband was a rookie cop who used to get drunk and beat up the wife. Once when she was pregnant he pushed her down a flight of stairs. We were terrified of him; couldn’t report him to the police, could we? Now of course I’m not saying all police are drunken wife abusers any more than I’d say that all Mexicans are rapists, or that all Muslims are terrorists. What I’m saying is that it would be in everyone’s best interests, especially the majority of police who are good and brave people to weed out the bad and crazy among them, wouldn’t it?
Michael Peterson Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Police killings are down, but maybe if we run more cartoons like this, we can start a fad.
superposition almost 8 years ago
Anecdotes and perceptions are more useful to media and politicians than data and statistics?
superposition almost 8 years ago
http://www.nleomf.org/facts/research-bulletins/
Mr. Blawt almost 8 years ago
That’s supposed to be on the black kids, how did that get here?
JBBLAW almost 8 years ago
@superpositionsThank you for posting facts and helping to educate us on this issue.
kline0800 almost 8 years ago
Police being shot numbers may be declining, but we are seeing a resurgence now, and organized anti-police “protests” that are actually “Agitator Incitements” where laws are violated by demonstrators and verbal and physical abuse done to officers doing their duty.-Even our president has verbalized anti-police myths, by on hearing the first news report of a shooting, immediate Pre-Judgments against the police involved, before even a search for facts has begun! That is a deliberate and incited Prejudice, with the goal of achieving anarchy, apparently.-Here is an excerpt from a new study by a Black researcher finding that “racism” is not shown in police shootings of black suspects in public incidents….“A new study confirms that black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement. They are more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground or pepper-sprayed by a police officer, even after accounting for how, where and when they encounter the police.
But when it comes to the most lethal form of force — police shootings— the study finds no racial bias.
“It is the most surprising result of my career,” said Roland G. Fryer Jr., the author of the study and a professor of economics at Harvard. The study examined more than a thousand shootings in 10 major police departments, in Texas, Florida and California.
The result contradicts the mental image of police shootings that manyAmericans hold in the wake of the killings (some captured on video) ofMichael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.; Laquan McDonald in Chicago; Tamir Ricein Cleveland; Walter Scott in South Carolina; Samuel DuBose inCincinnati; Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La.; and Philando Castilein Minnesota.The study did not say whether the most egregious examples — the kindof killings at the heart of the nation’s debate on police shootings —are free of racial bias. Instead, it examined a much larger pool of shootings, including nonfatal ones."
kline0800 almost 8 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html-this is the source to the excerpted article above.
Mr. Blawt almost 8 years ago
And as a result we militarize the police to ensure that any encounter will be treated like a war zone or a riot.
kaffekup almost 8 years ago
Right, the NYT makes up reports that could easily be debunked. At least, that’s what they tell him on Fox, and we all know how unbiased they are.
grosservater almost 8 years ago
If the police feel like they’ve got a target on them, they’ve got to understand that they drew it.
kline0800 almost 8 years ago
@superposition…well, duh! Of course prima facie as the Latins say, it is a brand new study, inconclusive, and studies after studies usually follow in time….-But the Black Professor expected the data he and his team researched did show that Blacks are not being racially targeted by US city police forces. -Heather Macdonald’s new book, with years of studies and government data and a larger body of data went into her conclusions that the actual data do not show evidence that Blacks are victims of police, or that police forces are “racist”…-Even in the Professor’s study, showing Blacks are more apt to be treated less politely than whites questioned when stopped in public, could more than likely be explained by the ATTITUDE shown by so many Blacks, as belligerent and resisting any questioning, as if they expect to be “untouchable” by authorities. Many of any ethnic group react with hostility to police, especially the ones caught in very guilty-looking circumstances. Surely bystanders in any US city could testify to reasons why police get tough with some suspects. -The words and actions of the growing War On Police demonstrators proves the hostility and hatred of contrived incitements against law enforcement, Americans’ only protection from anarchy.
StCleve72 almost 8 years ago
One would hope the police departments everywhere would be very, very selective about whom they pin the badge on. When I was a boy my parents rented an apartment in our home to a couple, the husband was a rookie cop who used to get drunk and beat up the wife. Once when she was pregnant he pushed her down a flight of stairs. We were terrified of him; couldn’t report him to the police, could we? Now of course I’m not saying all police are drunken wife abusers any more than I’d say that all Mexicans are rapists, or that all Muslims are terrorists. What I’m saying is that it would be in everyone’s best interests, especially the majority of police who are good and brave people to weed out the bad and crazy among them, wouldn’t it?