A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions.
In 2019, the most recent year for which complete data is available, police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous.
- African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops that year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015.
- That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects.
- In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.
The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a
Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015.
The
Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase.
In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims.
Assuming a comparable number of victims in 2019, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019.
By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.
On Memorial Day weekend in 2019, in Chicago alone, 10 African-Americans were killed in drive-by shootings.
Such routine violence has continued—a 72-year-old Chicago man shot in the face on May 29, 2020 by a gunman who fired about a dozen shots into a residence; two 19-year-old women on the South Side shot to death as they sat in a parked car a few hours earlier; a 16-year-old boy fatally stabbed with his own knife that same day.
Police shootings are not the reason that blacks die of homicide at eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined; criminal violence is.
Another study undercutting the claim of systemic police bias was published in August 2019 in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police officer. There is “no significant evidence of anti-black disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police,” they concluded.
A 2015 Justice Department analysis found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects.
Any claim to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian behavior before and during interactions with police.
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism
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