Posted on 07/12/2016 8:03:43 AM PDT by PROCON
Why stop with policing? Why not segregate everyone of every color into their own communities and schools and restaurants and outlaw inter-racial marriage once again! No more Affirmative Action! No more diversity of ANY kind! Get to the back of the bus!
As usual, Leftists never THINK past their first Chess move.
*Rolleyes*
White officers would welcome this greatly, so that they could strictly work only White neighborhoods.
However, when this issue has been brought up at police management discussions in the past, the black officers state that they would refuse any such assignments, threatening to file union grievances stating that such an assignment would be a form of punishment against them.
No. Which is why letting them do this is necessary. Baltimore wasn’t enough to get their attention.
And next they will want their own set of laws (none) and regulations. A form of sharia law, imo.
FBI statistics reveal that black persons are shot more often by black and Hispanic officers than White officers.
5 Statistics You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks
By:
Aaron Bandler
July 7, 2016
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.
“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 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.
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.
This article has been modified to correct Greg Ridgeway’s name.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler
Sounds fine to me but you can see where this is heading - the Feds will end up controlling these areas. Balkanized policing.
Black cops hate to go into Camden, NJ
F this.
If true, the only solution is to ship this primative culture back to their continent of origin.
After all, Africa is such a bastion of successful countries.
CW-II, closer in the mirror than it appears.
Be very careful what you wish for. Black leo’s are ten times worse on black criminals than their white counterparts. My dad was a LEO in Philadelphia. Suspects in custody would beg for help from the white officers while suffering at the end of a nightstick wielded by black officers.
Just think if you are long term veteran black officer who worked their way up to plum patrol areas...
Now they going to toss you into the jungle
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stupid is as Democrat does.
I don’t agree with the racial aspect of this. Check the statistics on officer-involved shootings, and I suspect white officers are actually less likely to shoot black people overall. But, racial aspect aside, I think police actually should be known to and a part of the communities they patrol.
Removing emotion from a political argument reminds me of one thing. Being a factory worker is more dangerous and deadly than being a cop. Policing isn’t even in the top ten. It is just easy media drama.
I’d love to see them take it all the way. Total segregation. Right back to the future.
Assimilation and integration didn’t work. Let’s admit it. Two Trillion dollars later it is a failure.
Good luck putting the genie back in the bottle though.
I gottal tell the good councilman though, if black officers enforce the law in black communities then they will face the same problems with lawless black, brown or white thugs and have to take the same objectionable actions that are being taken now that BLM find so reprehensible.
Cue Seinfeld saying, “Oh yeah, THAT’s gonna end well...”
It's going to give the already over-reaching Feds more excuses to federalize police forces.
The majority of competent black LEOs aren't going to want to be stuck in black communities. That mostly leaves the AA black LEOs. Historically, crime goes up in such "black like us" communities, including increased police involved shootings.
Leftists hardly play checkers but their pat plan and the ability to stick to it seems to be overcoming strategy.
We can’t win chess whent he other side is playing checkers. That is the way it feels to me but you’re right about them not thinking many moves ahead. Their minions seldom worry about why, they just do the ideology.
Why stop with segregating the police into black neighborhoods. Complete segregation in all aspects of our society may be best. It worked for 200 years and we had peace, quiet and growth and expansion as a nation.
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