{"id":17310,"date":"2016-07-09T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T12:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=17310"},"modified":"2016-07-09T07:18:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T12:18:43","slug":"police-watch-5-stats-you-need-to-know-about-cops-killing-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/09\/police-watch-5-stats-you-need-to-know-about-cops-killing-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Watch: 5 Stats You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

BTW..this information flies in the face of what the state run media is pushing down peoples throats since this whole mess started regarding The Police and Race. Remember: Believe only half of what you SEE and NONE of what you HEAR. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Here are five key statistics you need to know about cops killing blacks.<\/p>\n

1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015.\u00a0<\/strong>According to data<\/a> compiled by The Washington Post<\/em>, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun\u00a0or “were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force,” according to MacDonald in a speech<\/a> at Hillsdale College.<\/div>\n

Some may argue that these statistics are\u00a0evidence of racist treatment toward\u00a0blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 13\u00a0percent of the population. But as MacDonald writes<\/a> in\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly\u00a015 percent of the population in these counties.<\/p>\n

“Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers\u2019 own risk of using lethal force,” writes MacDonald.<\/p>\n

MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech\u00a0that blacks “commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime” in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the city’s population.<\/p>\n

“The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent of police victims would be black,” MacDonald said. “Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods.”<\/p>\n

2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks.\u00a0<\/strong>According to MacDonald, 12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the result of police officers.<\/p>\n

“If we\u2019re going to have a ‘Lives Matter’ anti-police movement, it would be more appropriately named “White and Hispanic Lives Matter,'” said MacDonald in her Hillsdale speech.<\/p>\n

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3. The Post<\/em>‘s data does show that unarmed black men are\u00a0more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man…but this does not tell the whole story.\u00a0<\/strong>In August 2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police gunshots compared to\u00a0unarmed white men;\u00a0the ratio was six-to-one by the end of 2015. But MacDonald points out in\u00a0The Marshall Project that looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different picture:<\/p>\n

The \u201cunarmed\u201d label is literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly tried to grab the officer\u2019s gun, or had been beating the cop with his own equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post\u2019s \u201cunarmed black victims\u201d category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then racism could have played no role in their deaths.<\/p>\n

In one of those unintended cases, an undercover cop from the New York Police Department was conducting a gun sting in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City. One of the gun traffickers jumped into the cop\u2019s car, stuck a pistol to his head, grabbed $2,400 and fled. The officer gave chase and opened fire after the thief again pointed his gun at him. Two of the officer\u2019s bullets\u00a0accidentally hit a 61-year-old bystander, killing him. That older man happened to be black, but his race had nothing to do with his tragic death. In the\u00a0other collateral damage case, Virginia Beach, Virginia, officers approached a car parked at a convenience store that had a homicide suspect in the passenger seat. The suspect opened fire, sending a bullet through an officer\u2019s shirt. The cops returned fire, killing their assailant as well as a woman in the driver\u2019s seat. That woman entered the Post\u2019s database without qualification as an \u201cunarmed black victim\u201d of police fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MacDonald examines\u00a0a number of other instances, including unarmed black men in San Diego, CA and Prince George’s County, MD attempting to reach for a gun in a police officer’s holster. In the San Diego case, the unarmed black man actually “jumped the officer” and assaulted him, and the cop shot the man since he was “fearing for his life.” MacDonald also notes that there was an instance in 2015 where “three officers were killed with their own guns, which the suspects had wrestled from them.”<\/p>\n

4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers.\u00a0<\/strong>This is according to a\u00a0Department of Justice report in\u00a02015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is\u00a0further confirmed that by a\u00a0study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Gary Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.<\/p>\n

5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops.\u00a0<\/strong>This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black.<\/em> According to MacDonald, the\u00a0police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person.<\/p>\n

Despite the facts, the anti-police rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and their leftist sympathizers have resulted in what MacDonald calls the “Ferguson Effect,” as murders have spiked by 17 percent among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. as a result of cops\u00a0being more reluctant to police neighborhoods\u00a0out of fear of being labeled as racists. Additionally, there have been over twice as many cops victimized by fatal shootings in the first three months of 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anti-police rhetoric has deadly consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the Original Story at Daily Wire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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