ubernathan wrote:Any credible evidence for these outlandish claims or is it just hyperbole and conjecture?
I presume you're referring to the '18 times' stat? If so, that's in reference to some research I heard quoted on the radio today by an author named Heather MacDonald, from her book The War on Cops:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/07/08/heather_mac_donald_talks_about_her_essential_book_the_war_on_copsMAC DONALD: Well, let's look at some of the numbers. I know numbers are sometimes tough over the radio, but a larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths are the results of police killings than black homicide deaths. That is, 12 percent of all whites and Hispanics who die of homicide are killed by police officers. Four percent of all blacks, homicide victims, are killed by police officers. So if we're going to have an Anti‑Cop Lives Matter movement it would make more sense to call it White and Hispanic Lives Matter.
The fact is that over 6,000 blacks die of homicide each year. That is more than white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks are 13 percent of the nation's population. And the reason they are dying of homicide at a rate six times higher than whites and Hispanics combined is because they commit homicide at eight times the rate higher than whites and Hispanics combined. And that type of crime disparity means that when the police are trying to save lives, they are in minority neighborhoods confronting people engaged in drive‑by shootings, killing children.
In the last 72 hours in Chicago there's been about four children under the age of eight who have been shot. One boy shot in the back on Father's Day. A three‑year‑old boy was shot. He's now paralyzed for life. That's who police are trying to protect. But given the disparities in crime rates the police cannot help but be in minority neighborhoods where they're confronting violent and resisting suspects and sometimes officers themselves will have to use force to protect themselves and protect innocent bystanders.
RUSH: Heather, you've just alluded to something that's highly politically incorrect. You've just given numbers, hard evidence, on what is called black-on-black crime. You're not supposed to mention that during incidents like this because the only thing you're supposed to talk about, Heather, is how vicious racist white cops are hunting down innocent black men in neighborhoods. That's the narrative. That's what inner-city youths are being taught. That's what they're being told.
MAC DONALD: Rush, here's another very politically incorrect fact, and I don't want to racialize policing, people should not. But if we're going to talk about race and policing, let's talk about cop killings. Over the last decade, black males made up 40 percent of all cop killers, even though they're six percent of the population. It turns out, Rush, that a police officer is 18-and-a-half times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is likely to be killed by a police officer.
RUSH: Say that again. She said this to me in the interview yesterday and I was sitting here with my mouth open. We just don't hear this. This is the result of your research. You're not making this up. You're not opinionizing. This is it. Say that one more time.
MAC DONALD: Again, you can look at the data on police shootings. If you look at those numbers, and it's in my book, the arithmetic that I generated this by, a police officer is 18-and-a-half times more likely to be shot by a black male than an unarmed black male is likely to be shot by a police officer. So, again, there's been an effort in Chicago by some city aldermen there to create a Blue Lives Matter law. And that has been attacked as racist by the Black Lives Matter activists out there and the ACLU.
But in fact it makes a lot of sense to have a Blue Lives Matter movement because officers are putting their lives on the line every day. They were running towards the shooting scene in Dallas last night as they run towards shooting scenes in inner cities on a daily basis to try and protect children. We don't know the names of these black children who have been killed because the Black Lives Matter activists don't care to talk about it.
In Cleveland in September of 2015, three children under the age of five were murdered by drive-by shootings, leading the police chief there, who happens to be black, to break down in tears and say everybody protests when a cop is shot. Why aren't we out here protesting when we shoot each other?
I should say that I don't normally listen to Rush and that I generally can't stand him. I think both major parties are ruled by the same elites, and represent 2 sides of the same coin meant to achieve the desired ends of those rulers.
I have not fact-checked that particular author, but her findings are in line with all other sociological research I've seen on the topics of police killings and black-on-black crime. Here's another relevant blip from a different source that I just came across while googling for the transcript above:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-more-whites-than-blacks-but-minority-d/Adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown of the U.S. population, he said black men are 3.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white men. But also adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown in violent crime, the data actually show that police are less likely to kill black suspects than white ones.
“If one adjusts for the racial disparity in the homicide rate or the rate at which police are feloniously killed, whites are actually more likely to be killed by police than blacks,” said Mr. Moskos, a former Baltimore cop and author of the book “Cop in the Hood.”
The puppetmasters sensationalize the exceptions to trick people into having a false impression of reality. They count on most people being too dumb and/or emotionally blinded to understand the actual numbers.
Melo would be much more helpful if he were to stand up and protest black-on-black crime, which is a bazillion times bigger deal than police-on-black violence. If Melo genuinely cared about saving black lives, he'd protest against black men for committing homicide at a rate 8 times higher than that of whites and hispanics combined. It would be a breath of fresh air to see him demand that black men stop committing so many murders and other crimes, and to refuse to compete again until black men get their homicide rates all the way down to the range where whites, hispanics, and asians are. If he were to do that, he could be a great man and genuinely improve the world.
The black community as a whole would be much better off if they were to get out in the streets and fervently protest against their fellow blacks every time a black person is killed by another black. Since almost all black homicide victims are killed by other blacks, and only 4% of black homicide victims are killed by police, it's dumb to give their fellow blacks a pass and protest against the police instead. But alas, that's what they do, easily manipulated into it by the cloaked guiding hand of the ruling elite through their media companies.