Posted on 04/14/2015 7:56:56 PM PDT by QT3.14
[SNIP]...Historically, somewhat less than half of the 400 police homicides reported to the FBI each year have black subjects. This is consistent with the black crime rate. Blacks make up over half of all homicide perpetrators in the country; in 2013, they were 42 percent of all cop-killers, despite being merely 12 percent of the population. From 1980 to 1998, young black males murdered police officers at almost six times the rate of young white males. According to Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University, police officers are less likely to kill a black suspect who threatens or attacks them than they are to kill a white suspect who threatens or attacks them. Admittedly, Kleck is working with incomplete data, but his findings comport with other research on officer behavior. A 2007 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that police officers were no more likely to shoot unarmed black men than unarmed white men in video simulations of encounters with armed and unarmed suspects. A 2014 simulation study from Washington State University found that officers waited longer to assess the situation when confronted with black suspects than they did with white suspects.
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“My baby ain’t done never hurt a nobody.”
Not always a tragic shooting. A lot of these guys needed to get shot for what hey were doing.
How many were shot in the back?
In the rush to lynch Slager folks are failing to realize the unintended consequences. Police may get to the point where when the black man takes off running they just let him. For that matter, once they see the driver is black they don’t even bother to pull them over. Why risk it?
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