Posted on 12/02/2016 9:50:21 AM PST by OddLane
A bit before Thanksgiving, John Lott and Carlisle Moody of the Crime Prevention Research Center released new research on race and police killings, finding, among much else, “no statistically significant difference between killings of black suspects by black and white officers.” It’s received a handful of light, friendly writeups in conservative outlets while being ignored in the mainstream media.
That’s a shame, for two reasons. One, the study rewards careful, critical reading—I often found myself pausing to consider exactly how Lott and Moody had set up their analysis and what, precisely, we can infer from the results. And two, the authors freely posted their data online so anyone who wants to can reanalyze it.
To understand what Lott and Moody did, it helps to contrast their study with a widely reported previous one by Harvard’s Roland Fryer. Fryer had extremely detailed data on police interactions from Houston, including how the suspect behaved and whether he was killed. This allowed Fryer to answer the question: if a white suspect and a black suspect behave the same way, is the black suspect more likely to be shot? There are obvious problems with relying on data willingly provided by a single police department, but the results themselves were pretty easy to interpret. Fryer found no evidence of bias in lethal force—though, using different data, he did find bias in non-lethal force.
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Truth has no place in this issue. BLM for instance was founded on a lie.
What? You mean Michael Brown did not shout "Hands up. Don't shoot"?
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Also - I recall recent FBI numbers that prove blacks are shot by cops much less nowadays than some 10-20 years ago.
But we all know that Obamatrons want to keep the lie alive as they make up this (bleep)
BLM Lies bump.
Doesn’t matter. Can’t tell them nuttin’.
bkmk
African Americans comprise 13% of the population, yet they make up 24% of people who are killed by police. African Americans commit 39% of violent crimes. Just square those numbers in your mind before you condemn the police.
Bump
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