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 many Americans hold in the wake of the killings (some captured on video) of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.; Laquan McDonald in Chicago; Tamir Rice in Cleveland; Walter Scott in South Carolina; Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati; Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La.; and Philando Castile in Minnesota.
The study did not say whether the most egregious examples — the kind of 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.
More at the NY Times
Who is surprised? The study found that the left has been inciting death and violence based on a lie. There’s nothing surprising about that.
The truth was borne out in the Zimmerman case. Then, with Michael Brown. The courts are proving it in the racially-motivated trials of the cops involved in the Freddie Gray case. The Sterling and Castile cases have plenty of evidence to cast doubts on racially motivated shootings; yet the left persists at jumping to that same violence-inciting conclusion each and every time.
Maybe a study should be conducted into why the liberal mind is willing to sacrifice innocent lives to pursue their agenda?
Dont ever expect this to make any front page headlines in the mainstream news or from liberal rags like TIME,PEOPLE or ROLLING STONE its the Truth and the media dont print the truth
BLM are Obama’s useful idiots for making blacks (and all the rest of us) less safe by adding more gun control laws to the laws we already have (which he refuses to enforce).
The blacks involved might take a lesson from this black woman.
You want to feel safe?
When you need armed help NOW, the police are more than 10 minutes away!
OK DJ, aside from “a new study confirms” (as if some study of your liking is concrete confirmation), I actually concur that for the most part, these shootings (albeit each case should be based on their own individual merit) are more than likely not racially motivated per sa.
There’s 2 significant problems. 1 being most are predominantly violent neighborhoods where there’s a great fear of life. The other issues is the lack of accountability of police officers, that they’re above the law because they are tools in the prosecutor’s ladder of political progression. I mean, if you’re a prosecutor and want to see your career turn to shit, just piss off the policemen.
So when people become above the law, when they’re unaccountable, when they can blatantly lie and cover up for each other with no fear of consequences, it’s simple logic what can follow.
And this is likely why they can have their way with the ladies as well.
@Ajay42302: I must have missed this thoughtful statistical study. Must have been done by some liberal!
@Randy: I have no control over what you must have missed.
@Ajay42302:
Cops are held accountable plenty of times. Nowadays, they are sacrificed to the God of Racism. The cop in Arlington, Texas that shot a crack-head that was busting up cars at a dealership. He charged the cop and got himself shot. The cop was fired. Now that the investigation is over, he was found to have acted properly. But, his job is still gone.
We have the 6 cops being raked over the coals in Baltimore because of one of your ambitious prosecutors, though she is trying to gain her fame on the lives of 6 innocent cops… three already cleared.
Darren Wilson; where is he today? He can’t stick his head out into the open… because he shot a thug trying to kill him.
Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos paid a price… for the racist false accusations the left conjured up… the ultimate price. And now 5 in Dallas.
Who are the bad cops, ajay? Thus far, all your examples of “bad cops” ultimately turn out to be either justified or tragic mistakes derived of violent actions by the ultimate victims. But, no racial motivation. In fact, it appears the primary crime committed is shooting someone that is black, regardless of the justification. Just as Obama and Holder mandated, blacks in schools that require discipline should not be disciplined… because they are black. Now, the police should not defend themselves against criminals… because they are black.
Oh, those mean old cops.
@Bill:
Yeah, what the hell ever.
So when did I endorse Hillary? Pray tell you dishonest clap trapping parrot.
@Ajay42302: When did I say you endorsed Hillary? You just sound like one of the idiots that supports her no matter what a lying, corrupt incompetent, race-baiting skank she is. After all, you DO lie about Trump being a racist.
@Ajay42302: You know, the study you were quoting in #4 or did you just make it up like everything else you post?
You’re making a great point here.
Too many so-called leaders jump to a conclusion before any facts are even in.
Obama blamed the two police for the fact that two black men in St Paul and Baton Rouge were killed…..then he began his usual speech about too many guns.
Hillary blamed ALL white people for these two deaths.
She said we had to change.
What if, instead of running to conclusions, we wait for facts to come in?
A felon with a 52 page record of arrests/citations got killed the 53rd time he came into contact with police…..even for him that’s pretty good! He DIDN’T get killed for the 52 previous times police contacted him!
He admitted to the officer he had a gun and it was on his lap. Then he made a move (what? toward his gun?) supposedly (if his girlfriend could read his mind) to get his wallet, not his gun. The officer told dispatch he looked like a wanted armed robber. (And he did!)
So, all the facts are STILL not in.
Certainly WE have no clear picture of what went on…..yet.
As to CD man, a caller to 911 said he was pointing a gun at someone.
That’s why police came at all.
His previous convictions aren’t what’s relevant to the shooting; it’s whether he was holding and trying to use a gun on the officers at the time he was shot.
The legal standard for use of force requires officers to reasonably perceive a threat at the moment of use of force.
After reports were in, District Attorney Hillar Moore said the officers felt “completely justified” in shooting.
So, perhaps there was a gun on the man.
Still WE don’t know….yet.
so, who ran ahead of the facts and started pointing fingers at the police, the white race, even guns?
BLM, Hillary and Obama.
What has Donald Trump said?
Do you want to know?
The next president should give police ”the benefit of the doubt, not always believe that what they’ve done is somehow wrong.”
Wow.
Wait for the facts.
How retro.
How un-pc.
How ”old white man’s thinking.”
How rule of law.
How would you like to be prejudged by a loathsome hater of your people?
Like BLM, Hillay or Obama.
How much more so would you prefer to have a dispassionate weighing of evidence?
Damn right you would!
Here’s a bad cop. No signs of racism here. The guy in the uniform is just a mentally unbalanced a-hole.
House cleaning is in order, for the sake of the 95 percent of good law enforcement officers whose reputations are tarnished by tolerating the 5 percent who aren’t. Racists or jackasses, they they can unjustly turn the uniform itself into a target.
@Greg: And your rants draw attention to the bad cops which are much less than 5% instead of the good cops. You are contributing to the violence! You and the media are a major pert of the problem!
@Greg: No one doubts or denies that out of the hundreds of thousands of cops, there are some bad characters. This happens when some people are handed power.
For instance, just look at the Clinton’s; they are 100% at the percentage of them that abuse power and are corrupt. This, however, doesn’t seem to offend you much.
:
What the hell are you talking about?
What part of my comment is not true. There was only 2 points I made.
1 was that the cops are more apt to be trigger happy in extremely dangerous neighborhoods- that they are more likely to fear for their lives rather than it being a racial issue with them. What’s wrong or made up about that assumption?’
The other point was that cops can be additionally trigger happy because they are much more immured to prosecution because or their close connection and partnership with the prosecutor. Again, what’s so made up or incorrect about that argument?
Do the resident lapdogs like you and Bill just shoot from the hip with nonsensical vomit or does rationale have anything to do in your debates? It’s as if something doesn’t suit your agenda, you just twist or corrupt the narrative.
Or could it be that there’s just no way in hell that you’d ever ever, regardless of circumstances, regardless of reality, not in life time possibly agree with anything from someone who isn’t like you?
@Ajay42302: 1 was that the cops are more apt to be trigger happy in extremely dangerous neighborhoods- that they are more likely to fear for their lives rather than it being a racial issue with them. What’s wrong or made up about that assumption?’
The other point was that cops can be additionally trigger happy because they are much more immured to prosecution because or their close connection and partnership with the prosecutor. Again, what’s so made up or incorrect about that argument?
So where did you find the research that caused you to make these statements as facts? You just make things up like all liberals do. If the facts do not fit the talking points, they are not considered. Opinions are inserted instead.
@Randy:
That wasn’t a study Randy but rather an hypothesis (hence my question to you above “What’s wrong or made up about that assumption“?)
You can agree, disagree, or simply be a contrarian grasping for whatever it is that folks like you grasp for.
@Randy: Forget it, Randy. Ajay thinks when he gets his little Media Matters email with what he is supposed to think that day that it contains facts.
I looked but was unable to determine if “whites” include Hispanics.
ics would that skew the results away from what we see as “whites”
@Ajay42302: Trigger happy is not a fact. You are part of the problem like most lefties!
@Randy: uh, okay Randy, you clever rascal. You win. You get to wear the Top Floppingaces Troll Gold Star badge for 1 week.
Man, I bet Bill is pissed.
@Ajay42302: You come to this site where people are trying to discuss serious issues and you spew unsubstantiated garbage. Then you want us to perceive your comments as thoughtful. You live under the bridge!