Articles And Studies To Blow The Narrative Away

Do White Police Officers Unfairly Target Black Suspects?

By Lott and Moody.

"Using a unique data set we link the race of police officers who kill suspects with the race of those who are killed across the United States. We have data on a total of 2,699 fatal police killings for the years 2013 to 2015. This is 1,333 more killings by police than is provided by the FBI data on justifiable police homicides. When either the violent crime rate or the demographics of a city are accounted for, we find that white police officers are not significantly more likely to kill a black suspect. For the estimates where we know the race of the officer who killed the suspect, the ratio of the rate that blacks are killed by black versus white officers is large — ranging from 3 to 5 times larger. However, because the media may under report the officer’s race when black offic-ers are involved, other results that account for the fact that a disproportionate number of the un-known race officers may be more reliable. They indicate no statistically significant difference be-tween killings of black suspects by black and white officers. Our panel data analysis that looks at killings at the police department level confirms this. These findings are inconsistent with taste-based racial discrimination against blacks by white police officers. Our estimates examining the killings of white and Hispanic suspects found no differences with respect to the races of police officers. If the police are engaged in discrimination, such discriminatory behavior should also be more difficult when body or other cameras are recording their actions. We find no evidence that body cameras affect either the number of police killings or the racial composition of those killings."

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This is a really good piece debunking and obliterating all the hysteria around Trump at Slate Star Codex by Scott Alexander.

I mean really good.

It's long so get your favourite beverage and snack if necessary.

I also point to this politifact factcheck linked in the article. It's a tiny thing I zero in on given the immense content presented but I just wanted to take a second to show how even politifact plays with the facts.

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Another from RealClearPolitics. 

As the the unhinged slowly recede into their myopic and ignorant bins, thoughtful writing by intelligent minds enter the realm of discourse.

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"...In the 1980s & 1990s Trump donated heavily to charities that focused on the AIDS outbreak. When he floated a third party presidential run in 1999 he went on record saying he would consider adding sexual orientation to the Civil Rights Act. Trump is also believed to be the first private club owner in Palm Beach — in this case Mar-a-Lago — to admit a gay couple. This is not the resume of an LGBT foe."

Yup. Quite the monster.