Harvard study finds NO racial bias wrt police shootings

[WeToddDid2]

http://www.businessinsider.com/study-finds-no-racial-bias-in-police-shootings-2016-7

Freyer and a group of students spent over 3,000 hours sifting through police data from 10 major police departments in three states: Texas, Florida, and California.

They examined 1,332 shootings between 2000 and 2015. In those shootings, the study found that police officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having been attacked when the suspects were white. Black and white civilians involved in police shootings were also equally likely to have been carrying a gun.

To answer the more basic question of whether shootings were more likely to occur in the first place if the suspect were black, Freyer and his team turned to Houston. The study examined police reports of not only shootings, but also arrests in which lethal force would have been justified, coded with characteristics like attempting to murder an officer, evading or resisting arrest, or using a Taser.

In these charged encounters, police were 20% less likely to shoot if the suspect was black. [emphasis mine]Even more surprisingly, the recent rise in videos of these kinds of altercations didn't alter the pattern.

 

[WeToddDid2]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/u...e-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html?_r=1

But in various models controlling for different factors and using different definitions of tense situations, Mr. Fryer found that blacks were either less likely to be shot or there was no difference between blacks and whites.

 

[FortuneTeller]

This should be put on the first page of every newspaper in the USA, maybe the world. And on every internet page so the idiots who think otherwise can get it through their thick heads what the reality is. Maybe then, they can get off the hate wagon.

 

[gwb-trading]

I expect that conduit has NOTHING to say about this. When we explained to him there was no statistical information which demonstrates that police predominately targeted and shot blacks more than any other race when accounting for all other factors -- all he did is attack those who posted the truth while claiming he did not have to post information to back up up his incorrect assertions.

Bottom Line: "Black Lives Matter" is based on a completely false narrative.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

BLM has two important things going for it. One, it fits the media template of racist police targeting blacks. Two, there is a lot of money and votes available for those who foment racial incidents and hatred. You need look no further than our race hustler in chief, Obama. How many black congressmen are there because they had records of outstanding accomplishment versus those who were race hustlers? Not many.

 

[CaptainObvious]

Facts? Who needs facts when you have an agenda? We're also trying to explain ratio and proportion to people who have trouble with simple arithmetic.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

"...While black people are more likely than white people to be touched, handcuffed, thrown against a wall, pushed to the ground, and have weapons pointed at them by the police..."

Apart from that, it's all golden.

 

[fhl]

Obama says he'd like to keep the shooting of blacks to a reasonable number.

I guess we all just disagree as to how many is reasonable. Ha


What’s a Reasonable Number
of Blacks to Shoot?
American Thinker, by Richard F. Miniter Original Article
Posted By: magnante- 7/12/2016 9:00:45 AM Post Reply
Barack Obama’s position on police shootings seems to be that more blacks get shot by police than their percentage of the population tells us is reasonable. In other words, about 45 a year is okay, any more is racist. Where the idea of a quota comes from no one knows.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Obama says he'd like to keep the shooting of blacks to a reasonable number.

I guess we all just disagree as to how many is reasonable. Ha


What’s a Reasonable Number
of Blacks to Shoot?
American Thinker, by Richard F. Miniter Original Article
Posted By: magnante- 7/12/2016 9:00:45 AM Post Reply
Barack Obama’s position on police shootings seems to be that more blacks get shot by police than their percentage of the population tells us is reasonable. In other words, about 45 a year is okay, any more is racist. Where the idea of a quota comes from no one knows.

Normally I object to Obama and Michelle's penchant for spending taxpayer money lavishly on their nonstop vacations, travel, etc., not to mention Obama's curious golf obsession.

I have to say however that I think we would all be better off if the Obama's spent the remaining few months of his term as far away from the country as possible. It would be money well spent if we could just be spared his condescending lectures and inevitable race baiting.

 

[futurecurrents]

More selective reading and incomprehension from the dumb conservatives...

from the article cited. Maybe you guys missed this part because it required reading more than the headline.


In addition to the political rhetoric, previous analyses have corroborated the theory that police are more likely to use force, including lethal force, if the suspect is black.

An investigation by The Washington Post last year found that over a period of about seven months, unarmed black men were seven times more likely to be killed by police than unarmed white men. And according to the most recent census data, black people account for 24% of deaths in police shootings, despite being only 13% of the population.

Freyer's research seems to dispute these findings. But that doesn't necessarily mean public condemnation of racial bias in policing is wrong — the study still found a much higher rate of overall police force with black suspects than with white suspects.

In fact, the reported lack of racial bias in police shootings only accounts for a small slice of interactions with the police in which race usually does play a role. For example, black people are much more likely than white people to be stopped by the police in the first place — a variable Freyer's study did not consider, as Vox pointed out.

The study also only looked at certain cities — the cities with police departments that were willing to share their records. It's possible that cities with more damning data were not represented in the research. The records are also tied to the accuracy of the police reports, which video evidence has directly contrasted in the past, according to The Daily Intelligencer.

The study itself acknowledges that black people face discrimination in police interactions on the whole. In New York City police stops, for example, they were 17% more likely to encounter use of any type of police force.