Posted July 23, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Over the last few years, we’ve been inundated with claims that white police officers are gunning down black men in what they say can only be described as something akin to ethnic cleansing. “Cops are racist,” activists and their allies in the media proclaim.

But are they?

As someone raised around law enforcement, this bothered me. While I know better than to believe law enforcement officers are better than the average population–after all, they are the average population–I also saw no reason why they would be worse than the average population either. However, that wasn’t the picture being portrayed at all.

A recent study took a look at the claims to find out if there was any validity to them.

Reports of racially motivated, fatal shootings by police officers have garnered extensive public attention and sparked activism across the nation. New research from Michigan State University and University of Maryland reveals findings that flip many of these reports on their heads—white police officers are not more likely to shoot minorities citizens than non-white officers.

“Until now, there’s never been a systematic, nationwide study to determine the characteristics of police involved in fatal officer-involved shootings,” said Joseph Cesario, co-author and professor of psychology …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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