In 10 of these 30 incidents, black police officers were among the officers who fired, and in six of these it was only black officers involved. In the shooting that resulted in two black men being killed, both of the involved officers were white. So, in the 10-year period Klinger studied, he found that 21 black men were killed by white police officers in St. Louis. Compare this figure with the number of black-on-black killings and you see that for every black man killed by a white police officer in St. Louis during this period there were almost fifty (48.8, to be precise) who were killed by black criminals. Even if you accepted the absurd proposition that not a single one of these police killings was justified, you are still left with a statistical disparity that reveals the true menace to black males in the city: other black males. And yet the protesters, in their willful blindness to these grim numbers, give voice to their outrage over the death of the one while marching along streets where, almost literally, the gutters are awash with the blood of the fifty. Jack Dunphy
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:13:18 +0000
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