One of the most corrosive false narratives advanced in recent years is the fiction that racist white police officers indiscriminately kill black males. While study after study have concluded that the disparity in police shootings among different racial groups is relative to the differing levels of criminal activity among racial groups, the narrative continues.
It should surprise nobody that a Monday "news" story on CNN bolstered the racist police narrative, citing a report from The American Journal of Public Health which found that nearly three times as many black males died during encounters with police than males of other races. The "disturbing data" were raw numbers comparing deaths by race during "legal interventions." These numbers are correct, but without consideration of the differences in violent crimes among racial groups, no legitimate conclusion about racial bias can be made.
Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald has this piece in the National Review providing a litany of reasons why the promotion of the racist police lie by CNN and others is not only evidence of stupidity, but also the worse kind of racism. News stories fueling racial hated against police preserves the urban criminal war zones where six times as many blacks, including women and children, are murdered than the members of other races and almost all of the murderers are other blacks. This false narrative also provides black criminals with a justification for assassinating cops.
It should surprise nobody that a Monday "news" story on CNN bolstered the racist police narrative, citing a report from The American Journal of Public Health which found that nearly three times as many black males died during encounters with police than males of other races. The "disturbing data" were raw numbers comparing deaths by race during "legal interventions." These numbers are correct, but without consideration of the differences in violent crimes among racial groups, no legitimate conclusion about racial bias can be made.
Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald has this piece in the National Review providing a litany of reasons why the promotion of the racist police lie by CNN and others is not only evidence of stupidity, but also the worse kind of racism. News stories fueling racial hated against police preserves the urban criminal war zones where six times as many blacks, including women and children, are murdered than the members of other races and almost all of the murderers are other blacks. This false narrative also provides black criminals with a justification for assassinating cops.
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