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: In 2019, police shot and killed 1,003 people in the US, according to the Washington Post’s Fatal Force database. Of those, 250 were black and 405 white. Police shot and killed 55 unarmed suspects, including 25 whites and 14 blacks. Shooting an unarmed suspect can be justified if a suspect makes a furtive movement, attacks an officer, or tries to take the officer’s firearm. Of the 14 incidents of unarmed black men shot and killed by police in 2019, several involved high-speed car chases, fights with officers, or had weapons recovered at the scene. 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.