"Systemic Police Racism" is a Lie: Follow Up

SO MANY REQUEST ON THIS--and it's VERY worthy.  

While we have covered this earlier on, I want to give you more info and details, so that you can share with friends the TRUTH..and it doesn't support BLM in any way.

Cops are 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black man than to kill an unarmed black man..

When cops withdraw from their proactive policing and contact with the black community many more black men die...

Unarmed whites are killed more than twice as unarmed blacks at the hand of cops..

So many amazing, compelling facts in the links below.

**Further Info and analysis**

From WSJ article on 6/2, "The Myth of Systemic Racism":

-Police have 375 million annual contacts with civilians

-Out of 1,004 that officers fatally shot in 2019, 25% were African American, YET African Americans disproportionately represent 53% of all known homicide offenders and commit 60% of robberies, even though they only represent 13% of the US population.

From WSJ: "In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population."

-Police fatally shot 19 unarmed whites and 8 unarmed African Americans in 2019.  This means unarmed whites are more than twice as likely to be killed by cops than unarmed blacks.  Those 8 African American deaths represent only 0.1% of all A.A. homicides that year.  There were 7,407 A.A. homicides that year, yet we are told to focus on the 8.  As the WSJ says "By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer."  ALSO from this WSJ article: "The latest in a series of studies undercutting the claim of systemic police bias was published in August 2019 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police officer. There is "no significant evidence of antiblack disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police," they concluded."  AND..."A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects. Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. also found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings. Any evidence to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian behavior before and during interactions with police." 


The next great source I often refer to came from African American columnist Jason L. Riley, published on June 1st of 2020, also in the WSJ, entitled "Good Policing Saves Black Lives".

Notably mentioned are studies by Harvard Economist Roland Fryer who was STUNNED at the results of his studies in this area.  From Riley's column: "In 2016 Mr. Fryer released a study of racial differences in police use of deadly force. To the surprise of the author, as well as many in the media and on the left who take racist law enforcement as a given, he found no evidence of bias in police shootings. His conclusions have been echoed by researchers at the University of Maryland and Michigan State University, who in a paper released last year wrote: "We didn't find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings, and, if anything, found anti-White disparities when controlling for race-specific crime."

HERE is where Fryer found what we're told is the "Ferguson Effect", which sadly ends up in MANY MORE African American deaths.  "In fact, he noticed what he suspected was a pattern that warranted further study. After surveying more than two dozen federal and state probes of police departments across the country, the pattern became clear. When police were investigated following incidents of deadly force that had gone viral, police activity declined and violent crime spiked. It happened in Ferguson, Mo., after Michael Brown was shot by an officer. It happened in Chicago after a cop gunned down Laquan McDonald. And it occurred in Baltimore after Freddie Gray died in police custody."  

What Fryer found from his study is that the RESULT of a viral case, like in Ferguson, is that cops pull back from community interaction and proactive policing, and THAT leaves AA's much more vulnerable to homicide..these are the people BLM SUPPOSEDLY is standing up for: "Mr. Fryer stressed that it isn't the investigations themselves that are the problem so much as the circumstances under which they are launched. Investigations that weren't prompted by well-publicized events resulted in little change in police behavior and violent crime. "But when I look at cities in which the investigation was preceded by a viral event," he said, "homicide goes up considerably. Total crime goes up considerably." What happens, he said, is that police effectively pull back. They don't stop doing their jobs, but they become less proactive and curb their interactions with civilians."

WHAT WAS THE COST TO THE African American community? Over 1,000 blacks died as a result of cops pulling back.  THAT'S RIGHT: The "activism" of BLM and the like actually leads to MANY MORE AA DEATHS.  "In Chicago, there was a 90% drop in police-civilian contacts immediately after the announcement of an investigation, and "Baltimore literally went to zero" after a probe was announced there, he said. In cities where these contacts fell the most, homicides increased the most. Sadly, the decision to launch departmentwide state and federal inquiries into the deaths of Brown, McDonald and Gray resulted in numerous additional deaths. Mr. Fryer said that because of changes in police behavior following investigations in these and other cities, "my estimates show that we lost a thousand more lives, most of them black as well, because of an increase in homicides." The protesters and their political allies insist that policing is the problem, but when police pull back, black communities are hit hardest."

Riley's last paragraph stands on its own: "And now we know how scapegoating law enforcement can backfire in ways that do the most harm to our most vulnerable communities. "I never would have guessed that if police stopped putting in the effort, that homicides would change like this," said Mr. Fryer. "You hear some people say 'Oh, we want to police our own neighborhoods, get out.' No, you don't want that. I guess I always knew it was a foolish idea, but I didn't realize it was this deadly."

How do I want to close? 

With what I believe is the root of all of this suffering.  It's unspoken and forbidden in all BLM conversations, yet it's the root of this all:  Godlessness in homes and an out-of-wedlock birthrate of 73% in the African American community.

When children of any color are so disproportionately raised out of wedlock they are so much more likely to end up in jail, on welfare, on drugs, dropping out of high school, never going to college..and it goes on and on.  

To ignore this truth is to cause the above suffering to continue and flourish.  And that's the biggest crime to me: Pretending it's the cops when it's mom and dad who raised you without hope, without a committed Christ-centered marriage and without fighting for their marriages and having God in their homes.

We must tell the truth if we are to fix ANY problem. 

And the problem isn't the cops in almost every one of these cases. 

Sadly, as I've said in my 20 years of doing this job, the cops are merely forced into doing what mom and dad never did: parent them.  Only, now it's big person's game and the stakes are much higher.  If only mom or dad would have disciplined you when you were young.  After all, God disciplines us..because He loves us.