REVEALED: The Shocking Truth About Police Shootings – Obama Won’t Like This

11 Jul, 2016 by Just An American

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Surprising new evidence has been released to the public suggesting police bias in use of force, but not in shootings. What does that mean exactly? Well…. check this out!

From the New York Times:

In officer-involved shootings in these cities, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white. Black and white civilians involved in police shootings were equally likely to have been carrying a weapon. Both of these results undercut the idea that the police wield lethal force with racial bias.

But this line of analysis included only encounters in which a shooting took place. A more fundamental question still remained: In the tense moments when a shooting may occur, are police officers more likely to fire if the suspect is black?

To answer this question, Mr. Fryer focused on one city, Houston. The Police Department there allowed the researchers to look at reports not only for shootings but also for arrests when lethal force might have been justified. Mr. Fryer defined this group to include suspects the police charged with serious offenses like attempting to murder an officer, or evading or resisting arrest. He also considered suspects shocked with Tasers.

And in the arena of “shoot” or “don’t shoot,” Mr. Fryer found that, in tense situations, officers in Houston were about 20 percent less likely to shoot a suspect if the suspect was black.

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These various actions by the police as documented here, take nothing into account relative to the behavior of the citizen they are having to deal with. Although it does reflect that fatal shootings have no racial bias, it is missing data regarding all the other forms of force used. These other forms recorded reflect much higher numbers with blacks than with whites…but there is very important data missing. It could be that there are no racial biases for ALL types of force if that information was provided as well. To me, for a study… that is a fatal flaw.