How Obama’s Support of Black Lives Matter Deepens the Racial Divide

According to a data base assembled by The Washington Post to record fatal police shootings, as of July 10, 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since the beginning of 2015. Of them, 732 were white, and 381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race). Yes, we should adjust for population, but then we should also adjust for the fact that blacks commit a disproportionately high number of violent crimes. For instance, blacks, according to the most recent statistics, account for 57 percent of murders, even though they represent only 13 percent of the population.

Activists argue that there is no correlation between violent crime and police killings; they maintain the only relevant variable is race. Common sense would suggest otherwise. Indeed, a new and surprising study of police shootings by Harvard economist Roland Freyer, Jr., who is African-American, revealed that there is no evidence of racial bias. In reality, Freyer found that cops tend to be rougher with blacks than whites, but that “officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white.” The truth is, blacks are not so unevenly treated as Obama would have us believe.

http://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/obama-support-black-lives-matter-083000033.html

Do you think in your estimation that the shootings of black people by the police has increased or is just now revealed to us, and has been going on for many years...?