Compiled by Dudley Sharp, independent researcher

” . . . a recent Harvard study (by a black professor) concluded that 1,332 police shootings over the 2000-2015 time frame reveal that blacks are actually 20 percent less likely to be shot at by police than whites, despite the fact that blacks and whites are just as likely to be carrying a weapon.” (1)

” .  we find no evidence of racial discrimination in officer-involved shootings.” In Houston, Texas ” . . . blacks are 27.4% less likely to be shot at by police relative to non-black, non-Hispanics”. (2)

“Officers’ use of lethal force following an arrest for a violent felony is more than twice the rate for white as for black arrestees, according to one study (3).”

“Another study showed that officers were three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed whites.” (3).

” . . . John Jay College of Criminal Justice Prof. Peter Moskos, . . . when the homicide rate is adjusted, “whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks [to] die at the hands of police.” (1)

Police are also less likely to shoot at unarmed black suspects than unarmed white suspects. (1)

” . . . in over 1,500 simulated scenarios “involving both armed and unarmed suspects who were both black and white.” . . . the officers were three times less likely to fire at unarmed black men than unarmed white men.” (1)

 Annually, 0.0017% of civilian interactions with police are fatal, or 99.998% non fatal, with 0.1% of police officers involved, or 99.9% not. (3).

“The Black Lives Matter narrative about an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is false: Four studies published this year (2016) showed that if there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against whites. (3)”

The major black lives matters issue? Blacks murdering Blacks? 

” . . . For every black killed by a white police officer in the U.S. every year, there are about 71 blacks killed by other blacks.” (1)

The “homicide victimization rate that is now nine times greater for black males than for white males. (2015) ” The brutality of these killings can be shocking. Over the weekend of Sept. 16, a 15-year-old boy in Chicago was burned alive in a dumpster. (3)”

Blacks do get pulled over for traffic stops more often than whites, but that’s because blacks commit a disproportionate amount of traffic offenses. (1)

Studies ” . . . in New Jersey and North Carolina, found that black drivers speed disproportionately. On the New Jersey turnpike, for example, black drivers studied in 2001 sped at twice the rate of white drivers (with speeding defined as traveling at 15 mph or more above the posted limit) and traveled at the most reckless levels of speed even more disproportionately.” (1)

” . . . a 2013 National Institute for Justice report that determined that three out of four blacks said they were pulled over for a “legitimate reason” and a National Highway Safety Administration report concluding that “blacks simply violated traffic laws at higher rates than whites.” (1)

” . . . the DOJ report found that blacks were more likely to be searched after a traffic stop than whites, as 11 percent of blacks stopped were searched as opposed to five percent of whites, but . . . blacks tend to have a “higher rate of outstanding warrants,” which explains the discrepancy.” (1)

” . . . the Department of Justice tries to assert that racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department was inherent in the fact that blacks consisted of 85 percent of all traffic stops between 2012-2014, despite only being 67 percent of the city’s residents, while whites consisted of 15 percent of all traffic stops while being 29 percent of the city’s residents.” (1)

Sharp:  Population counts are irrelevant, as everyone knows. It’s criminal activity that is relevant to stops and arrests (1,3). How was the Justice Dept. unaware? They weren’t.

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Who solves the cases of black victims that are murdered, raped or robbed? The police. And you?