Posted on 07/08/2018 4:32:30 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
A new study on racial disparities in police conduct found that differences in offending by suspects, not racism, explains officers’ responses.
In the study “Is There Evidence of Racial Disparity in Police Use of Deadly Force?” professors from Michigan State and Arizona State universities analyzed officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 and 2016. The report’s abstract says: “We benchmark two years of fatal shooting data on 2016 crime rate estimates. When adjusting for crime, we find no systematic evidence of anti-black disparities in fatal shootings, fatal shootings of unarmed citizens, or fatal shootings involving misidentification of harmless objects… Exposure to police given crime rate differences likely accounts for the higher per capita rate of fatal police shootings for blacks, at least when analyzing all shootings. For unarmed shootings or misidentification shootings, data are too uncertain to be conclusive.”
Two recent studies found cops more reluctant to use deadly force against blacks, including one by a black Harvard economist. Professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. concluded: “On the most extreme use of force — officer-involved shootings — we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account.”
But aren’t blacks routinely “racially profiled” by cops? Not according to the Police-Public Contact Survey. Produced every three years by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, the survey asks more than 60,000 people about their interactions with the police. It asks respondents’ to provide age, race and gender. It asks them whether they had any contact with the police in the last year; what was the experience like; how were your treated; was there a use of force and so on. Turns out, according to a September 2017 National Review article, black men and white men are about equally likely to have a contact with a cop in a given year. As to multiple contacts, defined as three or more with the police in a given year, 1.5 percent of blacks vs. 1.2 percent of whites fall in that category. Not much difference.
There’s also the National Crime Victimization Survey, which questions victims of crimes, whether or not the criminal was captured, as to the race and ethnicity of the suspect. It turns out that the race of the arrested matches the percentage given by victims. So unless victims are lying about the race of their assailant, unconcerned about whether he gets caught, blacks are not being “overarrested.”
A reasonable discussion about blacks and police practices cannot take place without acknowledging the disproportion amount of crime committed by blacks. According to the Department of Justice’s “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2009,” in the country’s 75 largest counties, blacks committed 62 percent of robberies, 45 percent of assaults and accounted for 57 percent of murder defendants.
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young white men is accidents, such as car accidents. The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is homicide, usually committed by another young black man, not a cop. In 2016, according to the latest data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, 7,881 blacks were killed.
The courageous Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald, who writes extensively about police practice, asked: “Who is killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks. In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous. … Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer.”
In 2012 in the city of Rialto, California, population approximately 100,000, cops were randomly assigned body cameras based on their shifts. Over the next year, use-of-force incidents on the shifts that had cameras were half the rate of those without cameras. But something rather extraordinary also happened. Complaints against all Rialto police officers with were down almost 90 percent from the prior year.
It turns out when civilians knew they were being recorded, they — not the cops — behaved better and stop making false accusations. The use of force by cops also declined, but, again, not because the police changed their conduct. No, the cops continued performing as they’d been trained. Civilians, aware that they were being taped, were less confrontational and were more likely to cooperate and follow instructions. As a result, cops needed to use force less frequently.
Still, when actor Jesse Williams gave a four-minute rant at the 2016 BET Awards about what he considered racist police practices, he claimed, “What we’ve been doing is looking at the data, and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day.”
“It turns out when civilians knew they were being recorded, they — not the cops — behaved better and stop making false accusations.”
They do. I have friends in LAPD. Even when they go on break to Starbucks, Coffee bean or go donut-hunting, the cam is always on.
I think white people are less defiant toward authority, over all, I really do. A lot of black males seem to think they have something to prove, and it just ends really badly when you try that with a cop.
“In the study “Is There Evidence of Racial Disparity in Police Use of Deadly Force?”
Ask the family of the poor innocent white bastard gunned down by a white cop crawling on all 4k’s begging for his life in the Mesa motel hallway. Blue lives matter.
That poor guy was a perfect example of what I mean: white people don’t have so much knee-jerk defiance. He wasn’t defiant at all.
There Larry goes again, confusing them with the facts. Too bad they could not care less about facts, Feelings are much more important.
This is patently obvious and it would be known as such if we had an honest media instead of the lying Democratic Party propaganda wing they are. It probably has more to do with poverty than race, more to do with fatherless families and a culture that despises education. But the net result is the same. It is not that minorities are just caught more often than whites, but that they offend more often than whites.
I wish I could wave a magic wand and stop it. For the life of me, I can’t think of a solution. I’m not alone. Nobody has a solution. The only fact is that Democratic Party policies toward minorities is holding them in poverty without a chance to escape. They need Hispanics and blacks to be on the Democrat Plantation. So while I don’t know a fix, I know a big part of the cause.
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I told my neighbor we should be able to erase it rather easily.
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very interesting. How come John Connor didnt think about this LOL
Social justice warriors have fanned out across the American spectrum to protect and represent criminals who have been wrongly accused of crimes because of the color of their skin “ONLY”
Most whites are part of the culture that hires police to enforce the law, while too many blacks live completely outside of that culture. They live on the fringe, and therefore have a completely different view of law enforcement.
Living on the fringe means no morals or values. my black friends are dismayed by the disintegration of their community since the 1960’s.
LIBTARDS don’t operate on facts. Fact Blacks make up 13% of the US Population of that 13% 50% commit crimes. In Tennessee they serve 6 months less time. Same goes for Recidivism Stats.
When I was sitting through court hearings for my son’s killer over a 2 yr period with delay after delay, 98% were black defendants, with white attorneys, Leslie Balon being the chief 1 for the most serious offenses. Funniest 1 I heard was ‘Your Honor ‘My client is NOT in your Court today, he’s in Judge .....Court’. BAIL WAS NOT REVOKED.
All repeat offenders need to see the same judge, same prosecutors, same court room, not a different 1 for additional crimes. They tie up multiple courts wasting tax dollars and judges are not smart enough to add 2 + 2 and connect those facts.
I guess your friends aren’t part of the “too many” I referenced. Sadly, their own “community” would demonize them for not blaming “The Man” for the community’s woes...
So sorry to hear about your son. I just hope the criminal got his / her just due. Nothing could ever compensate for the pain and suffering you had to go through, however. And that is not saying anything about what your son had to endure. Again, my condolences.
LIBTARDS would look at what you saw and say their is systemic racism in our court system. They are beyond pathetic - and most-likely incorrigible. Their depravity has already been demonstrated by their reaction to President Trump’s SCOTUS selection. The detractors act like judges are legislators instead of just making sure the law is interpreted and applied correctly. But that is their strategy - get judges into office who will take their side.
Unfortunately NO. RINO AG plead him down from M1 to M2 20 yrs, served 10.5 because I fight dirty with their facts/Stats at parole hearings. And joined other groups across the US that were doing the same thing for their Loved Ones. So he walks free. Sociopaths can’t be cured, and no way to keep track of him, so I CCW.
The hardest is Death Penalty inmates as there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. And some Lib Fed judge just comes along and orders re-trials or sentences vacated as time served. Happened to 1 victim here in Memphis, young mom, husband hired 3 hit men, let them in the house, snuck out with the young children, they tortured, raped, beat, stabbed, tied her up, threw her body into the trunk of her car still alive, drove it downtown to the main library where she COOKED to death in the 100+ degree heat. He and 1 other got the DP, 2 life, 1 is now free after 40 yrs, the 2 who got the DP kept appealing and the Anti-DP Fed judge finally reduced them to life with parole. Debbie has 1 sick sister left to fight for her. The book her sister wrote is called Murder in Memphis.
Manson would be free now if who he killed would have not been famous film stars and he’s still ranting his nazi BS.
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