“An exclusive analysis of data from the 50 largest local police departments in the United States shows that police shoot Americans more than twice as often as previously known,” news.vice.com reports . . .
Vice reports that these top 50 police departments — representing “148,000 police officers who serve more than 54 million Americans” — shot at 4,381 people from 2010 to 2016.
For the math-challenged (myself included), that’s 14.60 people shot at per department per year. As the majority of those citizens who faced flying lead from their local po-po survived, that’s not exactly a genocidal campaign.
Nor ethnic cleansing. But you don’t need me to tell you that today’s anti-cop rhetoric focuses on race.
The fine print on the chart above tells us that Vice reduced the sample size to 31 police departments. Also worth noting: Vice’s chart lists police shootings per 100,000 people.
This excerpt from washingtpost.com explains why Vice’s race card agenda forced them to adjust for population, rather than list the raw numbers (which would have created a significantly different chart from the one above):
In 2015, The Washington Post launched a real-time database to track fatal police shootings, and the project continues this year. As of Sunday (July 5 2016), 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since Jan. 1, 2015. Of them, 732 were white, and 381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race).
After stoking anti-police bias and racial animus — intimating that racism accounts for the fact that predominantly black communities experience more police-involved shootings than predominantly white communities — Vice plays the ultimate victim card. The police are shooting unarmed blacks!
Now we’re down to sample size of 24 police departments (out of the aforementioned 17,985 U.S. total) and wouldn’t you know it? Latinos are the ethnic group most often shot by cops while unarmed in this survey. And?
And Vice is forced to mention the reality of the situation — albeit while casting doubt on any interpretation that would undermine their underlying assumption that racist police are targeting and shooting blacks.
Police officers and some academics say shootings reflect local crime rates or how often police come into contact with certain groups, not racial bias. In their view, it’s not fair to look at use of force by population alone.
Nick Selby, a Texas police detective and author of “In Corntext: Understanding Police Killings of Unarmed Civilians,” said it’s important to take into account the socioeconomic factors underlying crime and policing as well as the circumstances of each encounter.
“Deadly force has a disproportionate effect on nonwhite people, that’s true, but nonwhite people disproportionately engage in behavior that is criminal and dangerous,” Selby said. (Blacks and Hispanics are arrested at higher rates than whites for both violent and nonviolent crimes, but the researchisunclear on whether they are more likely to commit them.) (emphasis ours)
And there you have it: context. Yay!
The article also skates over the reasons cops shoot citizens: the officer believes the possible perp poses an imminent, credible threat of grievous bodily harm or death to police or innocent life.
A unarmed perp can be shot for trying to beat someone with his or her fists. For attempting to escape the scene of a violent crime. For going for an officer’s gun. For driving a car at an officer. And more.
Vice works hard to cast doubt on the possibility that the cops who fired on unarmed black suspects were justifed by neglecting to mention the above circumstances, peppering their article with heart-tugging YouTube videos of unarmed blacks shot by cops in dubious or — in the case above — unknown circumstances, and “answering” reasonable explanations for the stats with anti-cop quotes like this:
Bruce Franks Jr., a protester in Ferguson who now serves as a St. Louis representative in the Missouri legislature, said cops in his city shoot first and come up with reasons later. St. Louis had the highest per capita rate of police shootings among the 50 departments we analyzed but provided scant details for shootings that happened after 2014. (A spokeswoman for the department said all shootings were investigated fairly.)
“There doesn’t have to be a gun involved. We see these cases where somebody has a cell phone or somebody makes the wrong move,” Franks said. “There’s a million reasons they give so it ends up being justified.”
And there are a million reasons why Vice wants its readers to think racist white cops are assassinating unarmed blacks as a matter of course. Well, at least one: to promote a more powerful centralized government.
Hey, Vice. Be careful what you wish for.
“1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since Jan. 1, 2015. Of them, 732 were white, and 381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race).”
There’s only one solution that will satisfy SJWs and BLMs — the cops just have to shoot more white people to balance the books.
Statisticians can accomplish the same thing bloodlessly simply by reclassifying some blacks and unknowns as “white.”
Modern, open-minded academics will just allow everybody to go full Dolezal by choosing their own race.
And gungrabbers will claim that all the dead were children.
Because my YMCA has a daycare/after school, it is a GFZ. So I wear a Clinger Stingray IWB holster. Very easy to safely remove the holster and the gun with one move. But the clip keeps in in place and is difficult to remove accidentally.
I recently bought a Sig P320 full size and the subcompact kit. I’m considering getting an OWB kydex hybrid made with the leather backing sided to the full side and the kydex sized for the subcompact. I already have a Clinger for the subcompact.
THIS IS NOT NEW. THOSE GUNS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS
This is a package, and it looks like a better case than the wonky not-a-violin one A-O sells on their site.
1. Family
2. Guns
Although that order can change based on the family member or gun in question. As for god, I’ve yet to meet a compelling arguement or convincing evidence in support of the idea.
Stupid people doing Stupid things winning Stupid prizes. When the person with the badge and gun tells you to do something. It’s always a good Idea to comply.
I binge watched the whole series. The guns were good and period correct, as far as I could tell, although I did question the 50-90 Winchester (it was available, it seems) and its lack of recoil when she fired it. That round has a serious whomp. I thought that Jeff Daniels did a great job as a bad guy, pretty out of the usual character for him, and I loved how Waterston looked as a Marshall. The rancher double widow was flat, but her mother in law, the old Indian woman, was a hoot. The Buffalo soldiers were entirely unnecessary to the story line.
These numbers are completely expected. Who gets shot? People committing crimes. Which ethnic group accounts for the highest crime rate? Exactly.
However, the last comprhensive national statistics I saw showed that a white suspect is far more likely to be shot than a black suspect.
Unfortunately, Steve, the Gun bigots will view your being a gun owner as “part of the problem”. They do not differentiate between law-abiding gun owners and criminals. It is that broad-brush world view that defines them as bigots. 🤠
Actually, the gun-grabbers seem kind of chill with armed criminals. Notice that in their lairs, such as Chicago, NY and LA, criminals seem to go right through a revolving door. It’s the law abiding gun owners they seem to really detest.
Be especially wary if the broker attempts to push their own listing
or even the listings that provide him an extra for procuring the buyer.
You get webinars to guide you with respect to successful investing online.
Lastly, in both property investing and little league, you’ll need
batting practice.
It is generally the left who advocate gun control. They are also big advocates of abortion. They generally believe in nipping disability issues in the bud. The Nazis (German Leftists) also advocated the elimination of what they considered undesirables, including the people with disabilities. The left’s primary interest in the disabled correlates to how much political power they generate by advocating for them and how much money can be skimmed from
social programs created for them. I don’t think your video is going to generate much genuine empathy among them
Anyone who includes “God” with guns is a moron to begin with. Those things are not remotely related.
I don’t run and hide. Not in my nature.
The best way to secure your fi rearm is firmly in the grip of your grubby little fingers. No need to worry about how much blood is dripping down your fingers (or for retinal scan – eyebrows). You may not have time to reach your safe before you’re injured. Home carry. If you have small children in the house, home carry on body.
The Best Way To Secure Your Firerarm
Except when the battery dies at an inconvenient time, or your fingerprint is unclear (Damaged hand, hand covered in blood — how could that happen during a home invasion? Inconceivable!)
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Why pay attention to anything coming off a university? The separation of State and “higher education” is non-existent in America. They continue to feel superior to God in matters of thought. A gun is a tool and nothing more. Judge a man by his works not his tools.
It could have been a 16 ton weight.
When I was a little kid in the 70’s, I had a small bottle of old glow-in-the-dark paint. I was painting something with it (can’t remember what) in my room and of course spilled it all over my hands. It burned my skin like crazy, and as I was running to the bathroom to wash it off, I was violently wringing my hands. Got them clean and thought nothing else of it – until that night. There were glowing specks all over the hallway walls (like stars) and into the bathroom, and the entire sink glowed this eerie green glow – for the next 14 years at least, through many scrubbings, a house fire, and at least two paint jobs. As far as I know, it’s still there.
Can I trade the suppressor-package for a full-auto version?
Happy Motoring, Mark
“social media isn’t the venue for that. All you typically encounter there is a lot of grandstanding, virtue signaling and moral preening.”
Which is exactly why I’m not on social media. Since its almost all showing off, what good is it? Why would I be interested in that?
“don’t get drawn into those online discussions. They’re a waste of your time”
Which is why I mostly lurk, and seldom comment… mostly.
1. Family
2.This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will…
My rifle and I know that what counts in war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit…
My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will…
Before God, I swear this creed. My rifle and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is America’s and there is no enemy, but peace!
For the record, I ask RF to go hunting all the time. But he has stupid shit going on in his life, like taking care of his family and working. If those are your priorities man, you’re not going to spend much time in the field.
Would any new law have stopped lanza from killing people?
No. Rifle was stolen from his mother after her killed her.
Did the current laws stop that coward from going into a church and killing?
No. In fact passed a backround check supported by the gun grabbers. What stopped him was a good guy with a gun.
And the loser at mandalay bay? Yet another one who passed a backround check.
And the illegal immigrant that shot and killed the woman in san francisco? Illigal immigrant with a stolen gun.
No amount of laws would have prevented these tragedies. Evil can not be governed. It must be destroyed.
I realize that sounds extreme. Maybe it is. Maybe its not. You will never be rid of evil. So you must be ready to combat it.
There’s a latin legal term called “res ipsa loquitur” (Latin for “the thing speaks for itself”). If you’re walking down the sidewalk and a piano falls on your head, it’s pretty obvious someone was negligent.
Ditto in this case. It has negligent homicide written all over it, gun malfunction or not.
Build your own.
BUILD YOUR OWN.
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It’s sad that in a modern society, people feel the need to be armed.
What’s sad is retards such as yourself believe that “modern society” is somehow different than societies of the past. If retards, such as yourself, knew one thing about history, you’d know that the more humanity changes, the more it stays the same.Thats why retards, such as yourself, will never understand why communism never works, because we’re still the same hungry, horny, brutal creature that walked out of the jungle 500,000 years ago.
When they’re talking about getting rid of the guns, what they’re really talking about is getting rid of us.
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre… part 2.
We all know what the first one lead to and we all know what the ATF is trying to enact with “rate increasing devices” and “standard rates of fire.”
Just wait for the news to break on Friday at 4.55 PM when the ATF makes those unconstitutional regulations law.
The groupthink around here is getting pretty thick. Perhaps instead of pretending you are inside the liberal mind you could instead suggest solutions to something that there is no way to spin positively.
Some people are assholes. There is no ‘solution’ for that.
Simple, deport all illegals and their family. Revoke the citizenship of anyone whose family was not here legally at the time. Homicide would go down 40-50% overnight.
The call to create more unarmed victims and enable more mass murder from the leftist retards in 3..2….1
Yup, a veritable flurry for the next week, then the usual political knee-jerk legislation introductions, ad nauseum…
Nothing to add…keep your powder dry. If Trump gives the anti-scum a bone he won’t last a year😡
We didn’t have this problem 50 years ago. Just like we didn’t have the internet, social media, cable news satellite news, or Iphones.
When will people learn that Gun Free Zones are just advertisements to commit mass murder? We live in dangerous times, we must adapt to them, not stick our heads in the sand and hope for the best.
Dammit. I’m apparently French. My nightstand gun is an SP2022 with 124 grain Gold Dots.
I don’t speak French, but I do kiss that way.
Okay, if I found a gun… yeah, realistically, I don’t want any bullshit from the cops either, so I’d turn it in. I would ask if I could have it, if it came back clean, but I doubt it would.