Posted on 07/08/2016 9:49:05 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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 12 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.
"Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal force," writes MacDonald.
MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that blacks "commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime" in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the city's population.
"The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent of police victims would be black," MacDonald said. "Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods."
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.
"If we’re going to have a 'Lives Matter' anti-police movement, it would be more appropriately named "White and Hispanic Lives Matter,'" said MacDonald in her Hillsdale speech.
3. The Post's data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man...but this does not tell the whole story. In August 2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police gunshots compared to unarmed white men; the ratio was six-to-one by the end of 2015. But MacDonald points out in The Marshall Project that looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different picture:
The “unarmed” label is literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly tried to grab the officer’s gun, or had been beating the cop with his own equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post’s “unarmed black victims” category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then racism could have played no role in their deaths.
In one of those unintended cases, an undercover cop from the New York Police Department was conducting a gun sting in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City. One of the gun traffickers jumped into the cop’s car, stuck a pistol to his head, grabbed $2,400 and fled. The officer gave chase and opened fire after the thief again pointed his gun at him. Two of the officer’s bullets accidentally hit a 61-year-old bystander, killing him. That older man happened to be black, but his race had nothing to do with his tragic death. In the other collateral damage case, Virginia Beach, Virginia, officers approached a car parked at a convenience store that had a homicide suspect in the passenger seat. The suspect opened fire, sending a bullet through an officer’s shirt. The cops returned fire, killing their assailant as well as a woman in the driver’s seat. That woman entered the Post’s database without qualification as an “unarmed black victim” of police fire.
MacDonald examines a number of other instances, including unarmed black men in San Diego, CA and Prince George's County, MD attempting to reach for a gun in a police officer's holster. In the San Diego case, the unarmed black man actually "jumped the officer" and assaulted him, and the cop shot the man since he was "fearing for his life." MacDonald also notes that there was an instance in 2015 where "three officers were killed with their own guns, which the suspects had wrestled from them."
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 Gary Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.
5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black. According to MacDonald, the police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person.
Despite the facts, the anti-police rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and their leftist sympathizers have resulted in what MacDonald calls the "Ferguson Effect," as murders have spiked by 17 percent among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. as a result of cops being more reluctant to police neighborhoods out of fear of being labeled as racists. Additionally, there have been over twice as many cops victimized by fatal shootings in the first three months of 2016.
Anti-police rhetoric has deadly consequences.
Blacks are policed more because they, by far, commit most of the crime in this country.
About 90% of all violent crime is perpetrated by black people. That’s staggering, and the biggest victim group of blacks is other blacks.
Facts are facts. Liberals don’t operate with facts. Burn in hell you cop-killing racists.
Black Crimes Matter
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She was interviewed by Rush Limbaugh for 45 minutes on his radio show. Be sure to read the transcripts of the broadcast @ www.rushlimbaugh.com when they become available.
It’s not about cops shooting blacks. It’s about cops against the citizens.
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Libs like to water down the statistics so it fits their narrative. If you are going to compare crimes statistics vs a population mix it should be done by the area the crime(s) were committed. You cant use the entire population of NYC to compare crimes committed in Harlem or Brooklyn. I would be willing to bet the black population in Harlem is a lot larger than 23%.. Even Brooklyn may be to large to make a good comparison of crime vs race stats. So in my opinion using a country, state, or city population race vs crime stats is worthless if it is not specific to the area the crime is committed.
This is not in any way Freedom of Speech. This is home grown terrorism, probably infiltrated with ISIS and MUST NOT be allowed another 24 hours to commit their crimes of terror.
Call your Congressman/woman and demand this organization be outlawed in your state and America this very day!
“It’s not about cops shooting blacks. It’s about cops against the citizens.”
Finally after a dozen posts by morons, someone who is rational! Thanks for your post!
Looking at it objectively, one can commend Obama and his radical advisors for instigating a well-planned and classic radical political agitation and propaganda campaign.
The #BLM organization was put in place over the last several years, with leftist money, and I have no doubt - government money as well. These are Obama’s Red Guards.
You just need a pretext (police killing a black man) to kick-off the events, and those can be found anytime. Some may get out of control and do unexpected things - but that is not important, you still control the overall movement, you control the media/social narrative, and you keep your political opponents off guard.
The statement in bold renders the fact meaningless. Compare the numbers on unjustified shootings and we'll have something to talk about.
Facts are irrelevant to the narrative.
truth hurts
so you want to start a race war over what you perceive to be a cop war against the citizen????
Pick up the phone Alex wants to chat
also delusional
Pick up your phone Alex wants to chat
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