“A recent survey conducted that was titled “How Informed are Americans about Race and Policing?”, roughly 44% of respondents who collectively self identified as either “liberal” or “very liberal” believed over 1,000 unarmed black Americans were killed by police in 2019…Yet, these estimates are a far cry from the published data within most comprehensive sources available on police shootings, as noted in the study… This study was a relatively simple one to understand just how familiar Americans are with published data on police shootings…As noted within the study, researchers relied on two sources that offer detailed breakdowns of police-involved uses of force that result in death, namely “Mapping Police Violence” and the “Washington Post”:“According to the Washington Post database, regarded by Nature magazine as the “most complete database,” 13 unarmed black men were fatally shot by police in 2019. According to a second database called “Mapping Police Violence”, compiled by data scientists and activists, 27 unarmed black men were killed by police (by any means) in 2019.””
The article goes on to say that “Our overall findings indicate that people are uninformed regarding the available data on fatal police shootings in the US.”
“Specifically, we found that the more people reported being “liberal” or “very liberal” on social and fiscal matters, the greater the discrepancy between the available data and their estimations.”
Gosh that couldn’t have anything to do with the daily lies about American being a racist white supremacist country where police officers walk out of the house in the morning hunting a person of color somewhere.
I would suggest the folks at BLM are just fine with that many people being totally misinformed on this issue, and would be happy to foster the idea that blacks are being relentlessly hunted by white cops. All the while ignoring the deaths of men like Cpl. Martinus Mitchum and David Dorn, the black police officer who was murdered in St. Louis last June, pillars of the community who happened to be black police officers.
Are you dismissing the idiotic idea that your people push that the Po-leece are actively hunting black men?
Police use deadly force under 1,000 times out of 30 million violent felony criminal contacts per year. That’s a 0.0004 percent chance of being shot by the police. In America, “you are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be shot by police.”
The officer, Mitchum, was serving as security at a high school basketball game. The perp, Shallerhorn, first robbed a guy in the parking lot, and entered they gym. Masks were required to enter, and Shallerhorn got into an argument with a school official about wearing a mask. Mitchum intervened and Shallerhorn pulled a gun and shot him twice.