Epidemic of racially motivated police shootings? University report says no.
 

The media has been portraying white police officers as having a bullseye on the black population. Here are the facts you will never here from the media.

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Reports of racially motivated, fatal shootings by police officers have garnered extensive public attention and sparked activism across the nation. New research from Michigan State University and University of Maryland reveals findings that flip many of these reports on their heads—white police officers are not more likely to shoot minorities citizens than non-white officers.


"Until now, there's never been a systematic, nationwide study to determine the characteristics of police involved in fatal officer-involved shootings," said Joseph Cesario, co-author and professor of psychology at MSU. "There are so many examples of people saying that when black citizens are shot by police, it's white officers shooting them. In fact, our findings show no support for the idea that white officers are biased in shooting black citizens."

The findings—published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS - are based on an independent database Cesario and his team created that catalogued each police shooting from 2015. The team—led also by co-author David Johnson from University of Maryland—contacted every police department that had a fatal police shooting to get the race, sex and years of experience for every officer involved in each incident. The team also leveraged data from police shooting databases by The Washington Post and The Guardian.

"We found that the race of the officer doesn't matter when it comes to predicting whether black or white citizens are shot,"

Terrible when facts get in the way of what the media is pushing.

Some years ago they media ranted and raved about all the churches that were destroyed or heavily damaged and low and behold it was a steady number for years.

I didn't know that "black people being *shot* by white police" was the issue, so much as black people being chased, shot, tazed, accused, jailed, charged, beat up, battered, physically assaulted by white police, more than white people who were under suspicion of the same crimes.

And the statistics to support this are?

Statistics to support an opinion? Pretty sure I don't need any. I was under the assumption that the "issues" were not "white cops shooting - exclusively - black people."

It's based on what I thought. So - 100% of all people who use the handle OrangeBlossomBaby on websites dedicated to Talk of the Villages - agree.

There's your statistic.

Well, that is perfectly intuitive to the most casual observer , with a minimum of observation!

All people are chased, tased, and shot when they don’t obey the law and try to injury police officers. Obey commands to live another day, disobey and put yourself in danger. When you fill the shoes of police officers and being shot at often you tend to be jumpy trying to stay alive. This happens daily in some crime ridden cities.

Don’t mean it’s right or true.

Meanwhile, here's another report, also from a university. It's not exclusively about white cops shooting black criminals.

It's about the use of force by police, use of force policies, and basic human rights, and how police departments are really screwing it up.

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/...4&context=ihrc

Warning - it's an actual report, not just a 4-paragraph article about a report. It's 100 pages long. A good read though. With real facts and everything.

If you can watch movie shadowgate on YouTube how government contractors use Ipsy social media to influence with propaganda - they are pushing this white cop narrative - they want to defund the police and be in charge

Could that possible be because blacks are committing more crimes and when confronted by police, either try to flee or resist arrest?

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Speaking of “100%”, I’m guessing that 100% of the people that resist a police officer and do not comply with their instructions run the risk of the encounter escalating, regardless of skin color.

13% of the population is committing over 60% of the crimes.

Nonsense.
 

As the author so states: "The report is attempting to "predict" shooting scenarios." Please raise your hands high, and you might as well assume the position, if you've ever read of a police shooting involving a black officer and a black "suspect."
Since most police departments don't even employ minority officers, and the few that do have only a minimal staffing, how accurate is the report?

In my opinion,
100% of the people who resist a police officer or do not comply with their instructions run the risk of the encounter escalating, regardless of skin color.