Title: Think police are racist killers? The newest data shows that's entirely wrong.
Headings: Higgins: Enough of the lying – just look at the data. There’s no epidemic of racist police officers killing black Americans.
Higgins: Enough of the lying – just look at the data. There’s no epidemic of racist police officers killing black Americans.
Stop the Lying
The Numbers
“We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes!”
Confounding Variables
Interracial crime
Scientific Studies
Unintended Outcomes
About The Author

Content: Every shooting needs to be evaluated on its own merits, and only one of the involved officers has been charged with murder, but for this analysis, assume all involved excessive use of force. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), there were 686,665 sworn police officers in the United States in 2018. That’s one unarmed black male shot and killed for every 49,047 sworn police officers. In 2018, police made 10,310,960 arrests, according to the FBI, and the race was known for 5.6 million offenders. Of them, 1,548,690 (27.4%) were black. There were 229 black males shot and killed by police that year, according to the Washington Post, for a ratio of one out of every 6,762 black offenders. The ratio of unarmed black men shot and killed (23) in 2018 was one out of 67,334 black men arrested. BREAKING: U.S. House passes sweeping policing reform bill, largely along party lines, that aims to address systemic racism and police brutality in wake of the police killing of George Floyd; Minnesota Rep. Omar presided over the vote.