Title: How Conservatives Use Made-Up And/Or Misleading Nonsense To Justify Police Killings | Current Affairs
Headings: How Conservatives Use Made-Up And/Or Misleading Nonsense To Justify Police Killings
How Conservatives Use Made-Up And/Or Misleading Nonsense To Justify Police Killings
“A police officer is 165 times more likely to be killed by a white man than an unarmed white man is to be killed by a cop.”

Content: Here’s the part where we get to have fun with numbers, and realize how easy it is to churn out meaningless factoids. Okay: A cop is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black man than a black man is to be killed by a cop. But wait, what are the ratios for white men? Well, let’s use Mac Donald’s sources and her calculations and find out. Mac Donald cites official FBI statistics on police killings. The FBI actually says that 41 officers “died from injuries incurred in the line of duty during felonious incidents” in 2015, not 52. Mac Donald examines the “historical average” of offenders’ races, and I’ll do the same: From 2006-2015, 289 of 543 “cop-killers” were white, which is 53%. 53% of 41 deaths is 22 cops killed by white people.