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.

Well firstly I'D like to point out True objectivity is not found in your personal assessments, but rather in the raw data being provided. which was vetted by the washington times with a secondary source mentioned in the article. so despite what you 'feel' the data is sound.

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

He is drawing a line of distinction between being the general populace demographic and the demographic being confronted by the police with felonious crime/murder armed robbery ect..

Meaning while black people may only represent 13% of the general population of the US they represent nearly 1/2 of all violent crime. Meaning of those who the cops confront with a 'guns drawn' mentality White people are far more likely to be shot even tho they are in the minority of the demo graphic that places police against felony suspects.

So intruth while whites represent the vast majority of the total number of people who live in the US, they only represent little over a 1/3 of the violent criminals. and while black people are only 13% of the population nearly 1/2 of all violent crime are committed by them. that means there should be far more black people being killed by cops than there are, but again it is the other way around.

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.

Again, shot =/= being killed.
It is obvious to me, that if you adjust your demographics to match who the police have to confront more often than not on violent crime, common sense is going to tell you that their will be far most instances of force/over the top escalation needed to neutralize a felony suspect (especially one who is looking at a long prison sentence) than a smaller demographic..

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