Some Facts on Police Killings

Created Date: 18-Jun-2016

 

Last updated: 23-Jun-2016

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The Point of this information:

  1. Is the Media is once again aiding abetting incomplete information to cause racial tension and divide!  The old cliché is "Figures don't lie, but Liars Figure."  Ask yourself why would they do that and the answer as a Christian is very evident.
  2. No matter your racial background you should be mad that the truth is not given out.  We all should be angry with racial killings by Police, which does happen, but that is not the whole story.
  3. As a Christian, we must recognize that Satan Forces are using race as means to divide.  Incomplete information is causing people of all races who don't have the facts to commit sinful actions which hurt, main and kill others along with destruction of property.  Do NOT be a party to it!
  4. Try to do a statistical graph on your own, substituting color of skin with abstract colors in an attempt to be objective.  Death by law enforcement happens based on more statistical information that is present than news articles and it is not racism in every case despite the News Media who thrive on Sensationalism for ratings.  There are too many questions to answer that no one has the answers and naive ignorance leads to wrongful conclusions in too many cases where innocent people become victims and racism is increased.
http://www.snopes.com/do-police-kill-more-whites-than-blacks/  

Some Facts (Note that is not meant to be exhaustive but help in getting past the distortion in the Media whose goals are not to solve.)

White Fright

More whites are killed in American police shootings than blacks, but overall whites are statistically less likely to be killed by police than blacks.

Bethania Palma, Sep 22, 2016

The article copied here in case the original is deleted or taken offline.  One extra highlighting done.  BUT READ MORE AFTER ON PREDICTING KILL RATES.


CLAIM: Police shootings kill more white Americans than black Americans.

True: MIXTURE

WHAT'S TRUE: In absolute numbers, more whites than blacks are killed in police shootings (because whites outnumber blacks in America).

WHAT'S FALSE: Overall, black Americans are several times more likely to be killed in police shootings than white Americans are.

ORIGIN: In September 2016, the ongoing issue of police shootings and race came to a head after a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed 40-year-old African-American man.

Similar shootings throughout the U.S. have been caught on camera and widely shared via social media, prompting the development of the Black Lives Matter movement to address a seemingly constant stream of American police officers killing unarmed black people. The issue has also inspired some critics to disingenuously counter that white people are the ones who are killed most frequently by police officers, as expressed in a 21 April 2015 Washington Times article:

An analysis shows that more white people died at the hands of law enforcement than those of any other race in the last two years, even as the Justice Department, social-justice groups and media coverage focus on black victims of police force.

Any "analysis" of police killings will of course show that in absolute numbers, more white people are killed in police shootings than black people, because (non-Hispanic) whites comprise a roughly five times greater share of the U.S. population (62% vs. 13%). So any "analysis" that is based on nothing more than absolute numbers and does not take demographics into account is inaccurate and misleading

Because the federal government doesn't keep an accurate log of police shootings, news outlets such as the Washington Post and journalists such as D. Brian Burghart have begun tracking such data independently. The Post described the statistical breakdown of fatal police shootings in 2015 thusly:

According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

According to Fatal Encounters, the database created by former Reno News & Review editor and journalism instructor Burghart (which tracks all deaths resulting from interactions with police), a total of 1,388 people were killed by police in 2015, 318 (23%) of them black, and 560 (40%) of them white. So roughly 23 percent of those killed by any police interaction in 2015 were black and just over 40 percent were white. According to those statistics (adjusted for racial demographics), blacks had a 2.7 higher likelihood of being killed by police than whites.

The grim trend has carried over into 2016. Of the 1,034 people killed and tracked by Burghart's Fatal Encounters database so far this year, 215 were black while 338 were white, so thus far in 2016 black Americans have been three times more likely than whites to die in interactions with police. That statistic holds for figures sent to us by Burghart compiled between Jan. 1, 2013 to Sept. 21, 2016, with suicides-by-cop removed. Burghart told us:

I think it's pretty obvious that black people are killed at much higher rates than white people. I'm not going to say that white people are underrepresented in these numbers, since I think all people are overrepresented in this data, but it's clear that black people are highly overrepresented.

Other factors that are also prevalent in analyses of deadly use of force by police officers include age, gender, mental illness, and the circumstances of the deaths. In 250 of the fatal shootings recorded by the Post in 2015, the victims showed signs of mental illness. Men were far more often killed than women. In 782 instances, the person killed was armed with some type of "deadly weapon." In 28 instances, there was no record of the victim's race.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 22 September 2016

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5 Statistics about Cops killing Blacks  Excerpts from the article, but click on the link and read the whole thing.  A copy is here this website.

In #1:

Mac Donald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 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 15 percent of the population in these counties.

"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’ own risk of using lethal force," writes MacDonald.

MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that 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.

"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."

#2 More whites and Hispanics die from homicides than blacks
#3 ...unarmed black men are more likely to die by gun of a cop than an unarmed white man...
#4 Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire at blacks than white officers
#5 Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops.  This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black.