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Police Violence against Black Men Is Rare
National Review ^ | September 18, 2017 | Phillippe Lemoine

Posted on 10/16/2017 11:55:14 AM PDT by TBP

In reality, a randomly selected black man is overwhelmingly unlikely to be victim of police violence — and though white men experience such violence even less often, the disparity is consistent with the racial gap in violent crime, suggesting that the role of racial bias is small.

Last year, according to the Washington Post’s tally, just 16 unarmed black men, out of a population of more than 20 million, were killed by the police. The year before, the number was 36. These figures are likely close to the number of black men struck by lightning in a given year, considering that happens to about 300 Americans annually and black men are 7 percent of the population. And they include cases where the shooting was justified, even if the person killed was unarmed.

It just isn’t true that black men are kicked, punched, etc., on a regular basis by the police.

Indeed, black men are less likely than white men to have contact with the police in any given year, though this includes situations where the respondent called the cops himself: 17.5 percent versus 20.7 percent. Similarly, a black man has on average only 0.32 contacts with the police in any given year, compared with 0.35 contacts for a white man. It’s true that black men are overrepresented among people who have many contacts with the police, but not by much. Only 1.5 percent of black men have more than three contacts with the police in any given year, whereas 1.2 percent of white men do.

Only 0.6 percent of black men experience physical force by the police in any given year, while approximately 0.2 percent of white men do.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackmales; blackmen; blacks; blackvictims; blm; leo; police; policeviolence; racism; violence; waroncops
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To: ealgeone

I guess you are right.


21 posted on 10/16/2017 6:22:15 PM PDT by topher (America, please Do The Right Thing!)
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To: TBP

Chicago shootings so far this year according to this site:
http://heyjackass.com

Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 526
Shot & Wounded: 2503
Total Shot: 3029
Total Homicides: 565


22 posted on 10/17/2017 8:53:05 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Another site showing where the shootings happen.
http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings

Jan. 1, 2016 - Dec. 31, 2016
4,368


23 posted on 10/17/2017 8:54:08 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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