The Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings
have caused an uproar among leftists because they fuel their narrative
that racist white police officers are hunting down innocent black men.
But the statistics – brought to light by the superb work of Heather MacDonald – tell a different story.
Here are five key statistics you need to know about cops killing blacks.
1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or "were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force," according to MacDonald in a speech at Hillsdale College.
Some may argue that these statistics are evidence of racist treatment toward blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 13 percent of the population. But as MacDonald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties.
2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. According
to MacDonald, 12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due
to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths
were the result of police officers...
4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This
is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the
Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study
conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Greg Ridgeway in
2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun
than other cops at a crime scene...
No comments:
Post a Comment