What If They Gave a Race War And Nobody Came?
The New York Times reports, almost disappointingly, that a Harvard study found no racial bias in police shootings. In fact in Houston blacks are less likely to be shot at then whites: “Using data from Houston, Texas where we have both officer-involved shootings and a randomly chosen set of potential interactions with police where lethal force may have been justified we find, in the raw data, that blacks are 23.8 percent less likely to be shot at by police relative to whites. Hispanics are 8.5% less likely,” (Fryer 2016, pg. 5).
Well that blows the narrative to hell, which is why I didn’t learn that fact until I read the study myself.
Groups like Black Lives Matter formed and have thrived in an environment that assumes cops are hunting down law-abiding black folk. This study, while showing blacks are more 24% more likely to have a gun pointed at them than whites, inadvertently proves police restraint towards black people. A cop is more likely to point his gun at a black person, but he is more likely to shoot a white person. Is it time to start White Lives Matter? No, because from my perspective as a gun owner I question the need for drawing a firearm in the first place.
It’s worth exploring whether the police shootings that have aggravated racial tensions and divided America into pro-BLM and pro-LEO camps are necessary. Comparing cop shootings in the US to those abroad and even when accounting for the higher incidence of violent crime here, the numbers are sobering. In the first 24 days of 2015 there were as many cop shootings in the USA as there were in 24 years in the UK. There is room to wonder if this reliance on firepower is truly necessary and whether a new perspective and training of Law Enforcement would protect cops and civilians. But these changes have nothing to do with racism.
The Left from President Obama and Attorney General Lynch on down abetted by the liberal media have perpetrated the myth of crazed white cops gunning down black men. This study has proven the myth to be a vicious lie that contributed to the deaths of 5 Dallas cops a week ago. Sleep well race-baiter in chief Obama.
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15 July 2016, 5:45 amRob Miller:
Comparing the UK with the US is a false equivalency, I think. The population is far smaller and the majority of police are unarmed.
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15 July 2016, 8:13 pmJohn S:
Comparing the UK with the US is a false equivalency, I think. The population is far smaller and the majority of police are unarmed.
While the population is smaller, it isn’t only 1/365. Our population is roughly 6 times that of the UK, yet the cop shooting count is roughly 360 times. Doing the math, that works out to a rate of cop shootings that is 60 times higher.
As far as the majority of cops there being unarmed, that’s exactly what he’s suggesting should be examined. Specifically, should we have as many cops armed as we have? Should we (and, can we) train our cops in use of force differently? Etc, etc.
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