It is based largely on the work of Heather MacDonald from The Wall Street Journal, and her statistical work done back in 2016 illustrate that a police officer of ANY color is 18 (EIGHTEEN!) times more likely to be killed by a black male than a black unarmed male is to be killed at the hands of a police officer.
I trust that work, and the fact that they have not been able to force Heather MacDonald to leave the WSJ for authoring that "heresy" indicates to me it is sound. (Based on the FBI-Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data)
For me, what was astonishing was, at a maximum, six people out of a hundred in this country are responsible for 46% of the violent crime (defined by the FBI as Homicide, aggravated assault, armed robbery, and rape) and even that number is misleading.
Black men are 6% of the population, and it is said that one third of them have a felony record, so the staggering actual number might be one or two persons out of every hundred are responsible for 46% of violent crime. The other four or five percent of black males are painted unfairly in that terrible light that says one or two out of a hundred is responsible, just because they have the same melanin content in their skin.
One would say (as Bill Whittle opines) that surely that is evidence of racism, that those other four or five percent of the population are unfairly painted, but I see it quite the opposite.
With numbers like that, it is astonishing there isn't more outright police mistreatment of blacks. In my estimation, those numbers reflect a great forbearance in policing in that the numbers of outright mistreatment are small and most encounters with law enforcement do not involve that kind of negative force.
I think that MacDonald’s interview on FOX might have been where I heard it, but I disremembered the actual figures.
I must add that my dealings with blacks have not been any problem. Those I know personally are not that much different from me or my white acquaintances. Guys I play ball with, folks I ran against when I was a semi-serious runner, the neighbors a few houses down the street, people I worked with and worked for (as a real estate agent, handling their buying and selling needs) and I get along fine. But discussions of a racial nature are few and far between; maybe that’s one reason we get along so well.