Barack Obama has spent the last
several years drilling home the statistically evidenceless idea that police
across the country are systemically racist. Hours before a black anti-white
racist massacred five police officers in Dallas, Obama said that police
shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota, about which he knew nothing, were “not
isolated incidents. They’re symptomatic of a broader
set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system.” After the
cops were shot,
Obama went to their funeral memorial
and lectured America about the evils of police officers: “We also know that
centuries of racial discrimination, of slavery, and subjugation, and Jim Crow;
they didn’t simply vanish with the law against segregation…we know that bias
remains. We know it, whether you are black, or white, or Hispanic, or Asian, or
native American, or of Middle Eastern descent, we have all seen this bigotry in
our own lives at some point…. No institution is entirely immune, and that includes
our police departments. We know this.”
Carrying that message forward, CNN’s
Baraki Sellers argued
on Sunday that, “We don’t have a vicious
cycle of black men shooting at police. That [narrative] ratchets up the tension
in this country where it doesn’t need to be, but two, it puts in danger more
black men.” Except that’s not true.
If there’s any systemic bias in
America, it’s media-produced, politician-promoted anti-cop hatred in the black
community. Here are three facts that prove it:
1. Cops
Are Far More Likely To Be Shot By A Black Person Than To Shoot A Black Person. Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute makes the
point that blacks are far less likely to be shot by police than would be
suggested by the black crime rate. Just
as importantly, “police officers face an 18.5
times greater chance of being killed by a black male than an unarmed black male
has of being killed by a police officer.”
2. Often,
Blacks Think Cops Are Criminals Without Evidence.
After Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown under disputed circumstances
misreported by the media and blown up by racial agitators, polls
showed that a 57 percent majority of
blacks wanted to see Wilson found guilty of murder, compared with 56 percent of
whites who said they needed more evidence. Of course, Wilson was innocent, and
Brown was a strong-arm robber and attempted cop killer. Similarly, during the
OJ Simpson case, 60 percent of blacks didn’t believe OJ was guilty. In the
Freddie Gray case, 80 percent of blacks thought
the officers – several of whom were black –
ought to be charged, compared with 60 percent of whites.
3. Blacks
Are Far More Likely To Profile Cops than The Other Way Around. While 59 percent of whites have either a great deal or
quite a lot of confidence in cops, and only 14 percent have little or none, the
numbers are awful among blacks:
just 37 percent of blacks have a great deal or quite a lot of trust in the
police, and 25 percent have none at all. As
of 2014, 74 percent of black people said
that the police were too quick to use deadly force; just 28 percent of white
people agreed. This is contrary to the facts: a new study from Harvard showed that whites are significantly more likely to be shot by
police.
The left claims that all anti-cop
bias in the black community springs from historic mistreatment. But that’s
simply not true: young black people did not live through Jim Crow. Instead,
they’ve been encouraged by the media and their politicians to see police as the
enemy – and that’s reflected in both action and viewpoint. This isn’t to deny
that there are many young black people who feel as though they’ve been targeted
by police. But it is to say that there is far more evidence of anti-cop
bias than anti-black bias in police forces.
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