How many of you that believe the MSM also believe MOST cops want to kill blacks?

[healthmyths]

Listening to the radio start the story, "cops shoot man" and looking at the following headlines from newspapers in the past.

Here's How US Newspaper Front Pages Are Covering Ferguson, Missouri, Today

Tuesday 11/25/14 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
NO CHARGES FOR WILSON

Tuesday 11/25/14 New York Times
GRAND JURY DECLINES TO INDICT OFFICER IN FERGUSON SHOOTING

Tuesday 11/25/14 New York Daily News
Michael Brown slay cop not indicted

Tuesday 11/25/14 Philadelphia Inquirer
NOT INDICTED

So with the MSM taking these rare and exceptional events when considering ...

Black people make up roughly 13% of the United States population, and white people make up 64%.
Black people make up 40% of the prison population, and white people 39%.
Therefore, even though there are roughly five times as many white people as black people in this country, blacks and whites are incarcerated in equal numbers. But the fact that black people are incarcerated five times as frequently as white people does not mean black people commit five times as many crimes.
Black Crime Rates: What Happens When Numbers Aren't Neutral

But we never hear/read that from the MSM.

 

[Fueri]

It's not most. Statistically "most" would be >50%.

Data supports the few bad apples theory. I think the public, the media, the unions and cops all need to focus on that and what to do about it.

The public is using the issue in some cases to further political goals, the media feeds that fire for their own benefits, the unions protect the bad apples, as do the rank and file apparently.

The data is there to weed these guys out. Why it isn't being used to do so is beyond me, other than the obvious motivations of the parties involved, who are all formed up in a circular firing squad, when this issue would actually seem to have a data-driven solution.


I've posted this before, but it's relevant here, so:

How To Predict Bad Cops In Chicago

exerpt:

"Jamie Kalven, writer and founder of the Invisible Institute, spent years investigating police misconduct in Chicago public housing projects but was frustrated by the department’s failure to release any information on the subject — not even its own records of complaints against officers. In collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, Kalven pursued lawsuits against the department, first forcing the city to release lists of the officers with several complaints against them. The Invisible Institute then filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain all complaints against police officers from Jan. 1, 2011, through Dec. 7, 2015. (Efforts to compel the release of still more complaint data are ongoing but are at risk because of legal action by the Fraternal Order of Police.)

The extensive catalog of complaints against officers appears to bear out the theory of a few bad apples: Among the 7,758 police officers who received a complaint during that time period, more than half received less than one per year (officers with zero complaints do not appear in the database).
"Meanwhile, the bad apples seem to be the ones racking up the grievances.

To avoid the overworked “bad apple” metaphor, the Invisible Institute prefers to call officers with many complaints against them “repeaters.” Repeaters only make up a small fraction of the more than 12,000 officers on Chicago’s force — perhaps 1 percent to 10 percent of the officers in the database, depending on where you draw the line — but are responsible for a huge fraction of the complaints: 10 percent of the officers who had received complaints generated 30 percent of the total departmental complaints since 2011. The 10 individual repeaters with the most complaints in the past five years averaged 23.4 complaints against them in that span."

 

[DGS49]

The 80/20 rule applies to almost every aspect of life. In this case, 20% of cops are responsible for 80% of the complaints. No surprises there.

The HuffPost article is a good example of statistical masturbation where are statistics are manipulated to create a false conclusion of [innocent] Blacks being oppressed by the Police. Lost in the shuffle is the fact that 98% of guilty verdicts are the result of GUILTY PLEAS, where there is no real question of the perpetrator's guilt. In fact, the perp is usually guilty of many more crimes or a much more serious crime than what he pleads to. There is no getting around the fact that Blacks in America, and particularly urban Blacks, commit a vastly disproportionate share of the overall crime, and an even higher proportion of the violent crime. And the percentage of those who are "wrongfully convicted" is microscopic. Which is why when someone is exonerated it is Front Page News! (NOTE: Those poor bastards should be paid handsomely for the time they spent in the slammer).

Police, as a necessary part of life, see society at its worst. In the course of doing their jobs, urban police see the constant stream of crime and violence against people and property; they see that in a wildly disproportionate mix, the perpetrators are usually YBM's. Is it surprising then that many police develop a pre-conceived notion that for certain types of crimes, the perpetrator is PROBABLY going to be a YBM. And if the evidence points to EITHER a YWM or a YBM, the bad guy is probably going to be the darker one. They are constantly told and trained to fight this internal tendency to blame or assume that the YBM is the perp, but life's lessons are difficult to un-learn when they are reinforced constantly by reality.

It is a pity for the innocent YBM, but not easily solvable.

In today's climate, any time a YBM is shot or injured by police it is newsworthy, and the police officer's actions will be examined with whatever means are available, JUST HOPING to find some evidence of wrongdoing. Accordingly, police are less and less willing to insert themselves into situations where they might have to use lethal force against a Black perpetrator, and the people suffering are the ordinary citizens who have the misfortune of living in high-crime areas. Now they have LESS policing in their neighborhoods, when what they really need is MORE.