Blacks are not shot more often than whites...says Black, Harvard economist...

[2aguy]

Yep....a left wing economist who wanted to show that police shoot blacks....found out he opposite was true...

Study: White suspects more likely to be shot by police than black counterparts

With protesters promising more civil unrests Monday after last week’s spate of high-profile shootings, it’s easy to assume that black people are disproportionately shot by police than their white counterparts, but a new study on police use of force from a Harvard economist challenges that notion.

Though the study, conducted by Roland G. Fryer Jr., did find that black people are more likely to be roughed up by police during arrest — with Hispanics and blacks 50 percent more likely – white suspects in similar situations are shot more than black people.

 

[2aguy]

Here is the actual paper.....

An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force

On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account.