The Myths of Black Lives Matter - WSJ

[SteveB]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth...ter-1455235686

[voodoo_man]

Can't seem to get the full article after searching. Someone mind reposting?

[SteveB]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth...ter-1455235686

The Myths of Black Lives Matter
Feb. 11, 2016 7:08 p.m. ET

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Apparently the Black Lives Matter movement has convinced Democrats and progressives that there is an epidemic of racist white police officers killing young black men. Such rhetoric is going to heat up as Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders court minority voters before the Feb. 27 South Carolina primary.

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The Washington Post has been gathering data on fatal police shootings over the past year and a half to correct acknowledged deficiencies in federal tallies. The emerging data should open many eyes.

For starters, fatal police shootings make up a much larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths than black homicide deaths. According to the Post database, in 2015 officers killed 662 whites and Hispanics, and 258 blacks. (The overwhelming majority of all those police-shooting victims were attacking the officer, often with a gun.) Using the 2014 homicide numbers as an approximation of 2015’s, those 662 white and Hispanic victims of police shootings would make up 12% of all white and Hispanic homicide deaths. That is three times the proportion of black deaths that result from police shootings.

The lower proportion of black deaths due to police shootings can be attributed to the lamentable black-on-black homicide rate. There were 6,095 black homicide deaths in 2014—the most recent year for which such data are available—compared with 5,397 homicide deaths for whites and Hispanics combined. Almost all of those black homicide victims had black killers.

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The Black Lives Matter movement claims that white officers are especially prone to shooting innocent blacks due to racial bias, but this too is a myth. A March 2015 Justice Department report on the Philadelphia Police Department found that black and Hispanic officers were much more likely than white officers to shoot blacks based on “threat misperception”—that is, the mistaken belief that a civilian is armed.

A 2015 study by University of Pennsylvania criminologist Greg Ridgeway, formerly acting director of the National Institute of Justice, found that, at a crime scene where gunfire is involved, black officers in the New York City Police Department were 3.3 times more likely to discharge their weapons than other officers at the scene.

The Black Lives Matter movement has been stunningly successful in changing the subject from the realities of violent crime.

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Ms. Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “The War on Cops,” forthcoming in July from Encounter Books.

[DocGKR]

Outstanding!

[voodoo_man]

While it's disappointing that the WSJ is behind a paywall that we can't easily get through, we simply can't repost the full text of a copyrighted work on a publically accessible website. Sorry.

My apologies sir.

[Totem Polar]

Since I was "in before the lock" (clean shoot, Tom, no worries), I'll say that A) the article was solid, and B) it's about time MSM started catching up to where many on this forum were years ago.

[Drang]

If the "Google the title" method is not working, you might see if your local library system maintains paid editions online for card holders.

ETA: There have been hints of this research "out there" for a few months now, but only (of course) in the more "conservative" online outlets. Glad to see WSJ is putting it out there, maybe it will get some traction.

[Peally]

Since I was "in before the lock" (clean shoot, Tom, no worries), I'll say that A) the article was solid, and B) it's about time MSM started catching up to where many on this forum were years ago.

They're not, WSJ is just above the rest as far as content and has been for a while now.

[JDM]

The whole article is on the Apple news app:

Opinion: The Myths of Black Lives Matter - The Wall Street Journal
https://apple.news/ApDbXR7oRSE-q8fyDSi4Zuw

Don't know how well that'll work from a desktop...

[Peally]

Didn't, need to log in. All it does is redirect to the original article.