Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Police Shootings

Phys.org reports on a study that shows that "Racial/ethnic disparities among people fatally shot by U.S. police vary across state lines." It seems on par with "the sky is blue" type of observation, but researchers have "discovered" that police do not uniformly shoot black criminals at the same rates across all 50 states. The article states that police shoot about 1,000 people annually in the United States, and blacks are about twice as likely to be killed by police as Hispanics, and about three times as likely as whites. But the researchers decided to see if there was variance between states.

    The analysis revealed that, while a larger proportion of Black people than white people were fatally shot by police in every state, Black-white disparities varied significantly between states. For instance, in Mississippi, the difference between the number of fatal shootings by police of Black residents versus white residents was 0.5 per 100,000 residents, while that difference was 6.72 in Utah.

    The five states with the largest disparities, in order, were Utah, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Colorado and Missouri. The five states with the smallest disparities were Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia. 

 And here is the graphic that accompanied the article:

 

The article continues, explaining why it is woke B.S.:

    Further statistical analysis showed that states with higher firearm ownership rates had higher rates of fatal shootings by police for all racial/ethnic groups. However, the researchers found that higher firearm ownership rates do not explain why certain states had much wider racial/ethnic disparities than others.

    These findings could help illuminate paths toward policies aimed at reducing racial/ethnic disparities in fatal shootings by U.S. police.

You see the logical flaw behind this, which is the assumption that the percentage of people needing to be shot should be equal across the races and, therefore, that racial/ethnic disparities in police shootings is something that needs to be corrected. 

    As was noted in my 2016 post on crime statistics, "The Color Of Crime," black crime rates are far higher than whites and significantly higher than Hispanics. The paper I cited in that post noted, for instance: "There are dramatic race differences in crime rates. Asians have the lowest rates, followed by whites, and then Hispanics. Blacks have notably high crime rates. This pattern holds true for virtually all crime categories and for virtually all age groups." As a rather dramatic example, that same paper pointed out: "If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent." As another example, the FBI report on crime in the United States in 2013 showed that 44% (2,491) of homicides that year involved black victims. But of those, 90% (2,245) where killed by other blacks. 

    If blacks commit violent crimes at higher rates than whites or Hispanics they will, of course, be shot by police at higher rates as well. If the researchers cannot understand this, they are too stupid to have advanced degrees and should be stripped of those degrees, given crayons, and made to repeat kindergarten until they can demonstrate basic cause and effect reasoning.