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Misfire A flawed new study finds racial bias in police-on-police shootings.
City Journal ^ | Heather Mac Donald

Posted on 08/08/2010 1:58:29 PM PDT by ventanax5

The New York State Task Force on Police-on-Police Shootings recently concluded that black police officers who wield a gun out of uniform face an elevated chance of getting fatally shot by their fellow officers because of those officers’ racial bias. The report, publicized by the New York Times and embraced by the Obama administration, is a classic example of fitting nonexistent evidence to a predetermined conclusion. Yet however faulty the report’s methodology, it will undoubtedly become a standard piece of anti-cop ideology and further fuel the hostility that makes police work in black neighborhoods so difficult.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bias; black; crime; heathermacdonald; newyork; police; race; racialbias; taskforce

1 posted on 08/08/2010 1:58:32 PM PDT by ventanax5
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To: ventanax5

The fact that the MSM NEVER defines “racial bias” in any other terms than minority “victims” and white “perpetrators” is reason enough to dismiss any “findings” of racism.

Enough with the conjured up pandering. That’s all it is . . . . politically motivated and/or attempt to sell papers and advertising to minority audiences.


2 posted on 08/08/2010 2:07:08 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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