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: At this point, though, I want to show why the whole statistic is utterly silly. Let’s remember what it was: A police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black man than a black man is to be killed by a police officer. 18.5 is a lot, and that can certainly make it sound like police officers are really under threat from black men! The implication here is that police officers are showing admirable restraint under the circumstances. They are so much more likely to be killed than to kill, and given that they are besieged on all sides by killer black men, can we really be so surprised that 36 unarmed black men die per year? 18.5! What a ratio! How can Black Lives Matter (I’m sorry, Black Lies Matter) try to draw our attention to such a comparatively insignificant problem! I can see how that would sound persuasive, actually, so let’s have a look at why it doesn’t actually show that police killings of black men aren’t a problem.