It Isn't Racism

What if the entire narrative is a lie? (HINT: It is):

• By now everyone knows that police, whether consciously or subconsciously, are targeting young black men, killing them at a disproportionate rate.
  
  But what if everyone is wrong? What if race actually has little causal effect on police shootings?
  
  In fact, the data show just that. If we as a nation can look seriously at the evidence, we can have a much more productive conversation about what’s gone wrong and how to fix it.

And here's a simple explanation of how the left twists the narrative into a pretzel:

• The Washington Post recently ran an article about police killings nationwide in the first half of the year. That story made the same mistake Post reporters have been making for years by comparing the racial composition of those killed with the overall racial composition of the United States.
  
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  And few activities, from the important to the trivial, conform to the Census Bureau’s breakdowns of the American population. Black people, who constitute about 13 percent of Americans — the Post had to focus on men alone to get the figure down to 6 percent — are 1.4 percent of doctors, 38 percent of barbers, and 16 percent of cooks. They account for 14 percent of pedestrian fatalities and 74.4 percent of NBA players but just 8 percent of NPR newsroom employees.
  
  The media would have Americans believe that race is the single most important and predictive element of fatal encounters between police and civilians. Yet both the basic data and less superficial analyses than the Post’s show that is not the case. With a few notable exceptions, violent criminal attacks are the best predictor of whom police might shoot in America.

Cops profile criminal behavior. Our readers (and this blog) have made that point for years now. And all of the "reform" of recent years has made it nearly impossible (and unwieldy) to effectively document a fluid, constantly changing, dynamic situation. And the penalties for "mis-documenting" a situation are far more punitive than corrective.

That isn't to say documentation shouldn't be done. We didn't say anything like that and any comments accusing us of that will be summarily deleted. You're inability to read or understand the written word is your problem. But the pendulum has swung so far over into the realms of attempting to micromanage a typical street stop that the "risk-reward" measure has hogtied proactive efforts. In other words, the simplest and safest road is "fetality."

Go read it all.