White police officers don't unfairly target black suspects, study says . . . Also, Body Cams make no difference

In addition, body cams make no difference.

White police officers don't unfairly target black suspects, study says

By Cody Derespina Published November 16, 2016 FoxNews.com

The day after a Minnesota cop was charged in the July shooting death of a black man, an in-depth study purported to show race generally does not play a role in police shootings.

Among the findings of the investigation released Thursday by the Crime Prevention Research Center: White police officers are not significantly more likely to shoot black suspects; body cameras have had little effect on decreasing police killings; the more cops at the scene, the less likely it is a suspect will be shot.

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The study examined data from 2013 to 2015, a time period which almost perfectly bookends the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014, an episode that helped lead to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and placed increased scrutiny on police shootings. Yet, the research team of John Lott and Carlisle Moody found the percentage of black suspects killed in the 19 months before Brown’s death (24.8 percent) was almost exactly the same as the percentage killed in the 16 months after Brown’s death (25 percent).

“You might have imagined that if people were shooting black suspects for some type of racial animus, you might imagine there would be a change before and after Ferguson,” Lott told FoxNews.com. “And yet [cops] seem to shoot, for black suspects, it’s perfectly flat between the two periods of time.”

Lott and Moody examined 2,699 police killings from more than 1,500 cities during the three-year time span -- including 1,333 killings not recorded in the FBI’s official data. To gather the most precise information, the researchers scoured LexisNexis, Google, official police data and online databases.

The resulting spreadsheet also listed the race for suspects and officers. Putting together the racial component proved to be one of the more difficult tasks.

“News stories tend to not mention the race of the officer when the officer is black, because most of the black officers we found we found by looking at department photos, not news stories,” Lott said. “That was not true of white officers.”

Once the data was in place, the team controlled for various factors, including total population, racial makeup and, importantly, violent crime levels. A Washington Post article that gained popularity in the spring asserted that since black suspects made up 25 percent of those killed by police, but only 12 percent of the population, the disparity proved black people were more likely to be shot by police.

“However, crime rates differ across neighborhoods,” the Lott and Moody study countered. “Black neighborhoods tend to experience higher crime rates. Therefore, race-neutral police randomly assigned to neighborhoods will encounter more criminal activities in black neighborhoods. As such, they can be expected to employ lethal force against a higher proportion of black suspects.”

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What a lying piece of chit. Your title says targeting blacks. The study talks about actual shootings. You are the crud one finds on the bottom of their feet after walking in the dog park. Fascist must be met with truth. You are a liar, and I imagine you have hidden your life style with the same kind of lies which Ernst would be proud. False news and manipulation was rewarded in Nazi Germany and it will not be rewarded here in America. For every action there is a reaction. The backlash to these lies may take time, but they will be crushed by the truth. Do not be fooled that you think what you post here is substantive or truthful, but sophomoric twisting of words to make it sound like blacks are not targeted in America. Sorry there have been volumes of academic study which has proven they in fact have been targeted. Whether they are shot is not the same as targeting, and to use a one dimensional study in MN to twist a thread headline here is evil.

Markle is typical of the mentality here in this part of the country. You should not be surprised, Oatie.

Markle is typical of the mentality here in this part of the country. You should not be surprised, Oatie.


No, he hides in the log cabin closet, and posts shirtless photos of himself in his backyard digging which first gave me that uneasy feeling that this guy is three dollar, and with the history of the same adopting fascist policy was absolutely what drove the German nazi movement.....no this guy is special and cannot be compared to the average fellow in the panhandle with a wife and family trying to make ends meets. These fellows who migrate to fascism have always been deep deep down not normal, and never have a family or any attempt to live normal lives as they visit biker bars in Key West....as if folks do not get who he hangs with in his leisure. They exist to destroy the fabric of societies with their perversion. The attacks against blacks, muslims, Hispanics, and humanity these folks represent feeds their perverse world view. Mr. Markle is evil. He spews this evil all over Florida, and these are not the words of one man, but a obvious political perverse conspiracy.

Who is insulting you.  Why are you ashamed of the truth?  You have not fooled a person here, any more than Ernst fooled anybody.