A study by the black Harvard economist Roland Fryer found that race is not a significant factor in police shootings.
In 2019, 9 unarmed black people were shot and killed by police while on duty, compared with 19 whites, in a country of over 330 million people. Moreover, “the average liberal respondent also thought that a clear majority of people killed by police in 2019 were black (in actuality, roughly a quarter were).” Overall, 44% of liberals guessed 1,000 or more.” But “the actual figure is 27,” according “to the Mapping Police Violence database,” which includes killings by off-duty cops and non-shooting deaths. That leads some of them to falsely believe that police are literally hunting black people, when police are not doing anything of the sort.Īs researcher Zach Goldberg noted last year, “A recent nationally representative survey commissioned by Skeptic Mag asked respondents to estimate the number of unarmed blacks killed by police in 2019. Why are progressives so angry at the police, to the point where a significant minority of them want to abolish the police? Because they vastly overstate the number of police shootings of unarmed black people, often by a factor of 40 or more-exaggerating police killings by around 4,000 percent. Look no further than the demonization of the conservative Supreme Court justices which was kept at a fever pitch for weeks until someone with a gun showed up at Brett Kavanaugh’s house hoping to assassinate him.” And this applies to all aspects of governance.
Politicians who continually blame the police for society’s ills and describe them as unrepentant racists and corrupt actors have obviously fed into this toxic mix….When cable news talking heads spend all of their time bellowing about how ‘evil’ or ‘dangerous’ the police are, some of those who are receptive to such a message will inevitably act upon it. Eleven officers were shot in just the past week, including two others who were killed in Las Vegas and Mississippi. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy were killed and Officer Alec Iurato was wounded when they responded to a 911 call that appears to have been “a deliberate act to lure law enforcement to the scene.”Īs Shaw observes, “The attacks in Connecticut capped off a dangerous and frequently deadly week for the nation’s law enforcement forces. Such an attack apparently struck Wednesday in Bristol, Connecticut, where the state police said Bristol Police Sgt. While the figures include a few officers killed by accidental gunfire, the number of ambushes in which police were injured or killed in surprise attacks with little chance to defend themselves has soared since 2020 and accounts for nearly half the officers killed this year. The country is on track for the deadliest year since 67 officers were killed in 2016. A deadly and disturbing pattern seems to be emerging, just as police officers have been quitting or taking early retirement in droves.Īccording to organizations that track violence against police, 56 officers have been killed by gunfire this year - 14% more than this time last year and about 45% ahead of 2020′s pace. Police are being attacked around the United States, often fatally, in numbers that haven’t been seen in many years….the number of American police officers being killed in the line of duty is rising…Police deaths of this type in 2022 are already up by 14% over last year and by a staggering 45% over the same period in 2020, when riots and violence were filling the streets all through the summer. This would obviously be grim news under any circumstances, but the attack does not appear to be just some random, one-off act by a maniac. Thankfully, the wounded police officer, rather than retreating, returned fire and killed the attacker, saving the public the bother of a trial. In Bristol, Connecticut this week, two police officers were murdered and a third was wounded by gunfire in what was clearly an ambush after a phony 911 call was received.
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