Silence on the facts

Leland NC

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The Washington Post's database of fatal police shootings showed 14 unarmed Black victims and 25 unarmed White victims in 2019. The number of unarmed Black shooting victims is down 63% from 2015, when the database began. There are about 7,300 Black homicide victims a year. The 14 unarmed victims in fatal police shootings would comprise only 0.2% of that total. Ideally, officers would never take anyone's life in the course of their duties. But given the number of arrests they make each year (around 10 million) and the number of deadly-weapons attacks on officers (an average of 27 per day in just two-thirds of the nation's police departments)," there is no evidence of an epidemic of racist police shootings. That is confirmed by a National Academy of Sciences study that found no such racial link. It turns out that White officers are no more likely than Black or Hispanic officers to shoot Black civilians. It is a racial group's rate of violent crime that determines police shootings, not the race of the officer. In fact, if there is a bias in police shootings after crime rates are taken into account, it is against White civilians, the study found." The Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley notes: "Police shootings have fallen precipitously since the 1970s.... Empirical studies have found no racial bias in police use of deadly force, and that the racial disparities that do exist stem from racial differences in criminal behavior. The problem isn't a shortage of data but a race-based narrative that is immune to any data that challenge it." The anti-cop narrative deflects attention away from solving the real criminal-justice problem, which is high rates of Black-on-Black victimization." According to the latest data, Nationally, African Americans between the ages of 10 and 34 die from homicide at 13 times the rate of White Americans." Further, the interracial crime disparity has been thoroughly documented. According to the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of criminal victimization, there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations... between Blacks and Whites last year, including White-on-Black and Black-on-White attacks. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90 percent, and Whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10 percent." This disparity is perhaps better understood by considering that Black Americans represent just 13% of our population but perpetrate 90% of violent interracial crimes. Equally alarming is the fact that, in the latest available data, where victim race was known, there were 4,884 White people murdered and 6,318 Black people murdered — and Black-on-Black assault is much more prevalent than White-on-White. The suspect in 88% of Black murders is also Black. This gross racial disparity in criminal assailants is not a new issue, as made clear by a 2015 Harvard study on Black-on-Black violence. In that study, former Democrat New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg noted: "Ninety percent of all people killed in our city — and 90 percent of all those who commit the murders and other violent crimes — are Black and Hispanic. It is shameful that so many elected officials and editorial writers have been largely silent on these facts." Of course, Leftists never let "facts" get in the way of their agenda. And a final quote exemplifying the sheer absurdity of the Democrats' faux "justice" agenda. After the Floyd case verdict, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared, "Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice."