4 Officers Shot Dead By Snipers, 7 Wounded in Dallas Protest Against Police Violence

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“If one adjusts for the racial disparity in the homicide rate or the rate at which police are feloniously killed, whites are actually more likely to be killed by police than blacks,” said Mr. Moskos, a former Baltimore cop and author of the book “Cop in the Hood.”

Firstly, a policeman doesn't strike me as a terribly objective source.

Secondly, can you explain to me why he writes that?

Figures on police shootings by race are thin on the ground, but Mr. Moskos’s results have some support: The investigative journalism website ProPublica came up with a similar percentage in an Oct. 10 article, reporting that 44 percent of all those killed by police were white, using FBI data from 1980 to 2012.
The fact-checking website PolitiFact concluded in August 2014 that police kill more whites than blacks after the claim was made by conservative commentator Michael Medved. PolitiFact cited data from the Centers for Disease Control on fatal injuries by “legal intervention” from 1999 to 2011.
“Over the span of more than a decade, 2,151 whites died by being shot by police compared to 1,130 blacks. In that respect, Medved is correct,” said PolitiFact.

No one is arguing raw numbers. Why are you bringing them back up, unless you simply don't understand that taken demographics, according to your own source, black men are 3.5 times more likely to be shot by policemen.

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