{"id":100059,"date":"2016-07-03T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=100059"},"modified":"2016-07-03T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T19:52:36","slug":"larry-elder-whites-are-2x-more-likely-killed-by-cop-vs-blacks-whites10-of-violent-crime-but-50-those-killed-by-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=100059","title":{"rendered":"Larry Elder: ‘Whites are 2x more likely killed by cop vs blacks. Whites=10% of violent crime, but 50% those killed by cop.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Times<\/a>: The real racial bias: Cops more willing to shoot whites than blacks, research finds<\/p>\n

It\u2019s widely assumed that white police officers are more likely to shoot black suspects as a result of racial bias, but recent research suggests the opposite is true.<\/p>\n

An innovative study published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology found that participants in realistic simulations felt more threatened by black suspects yet took longer to pull the trigger on black men than on white or Hispanic men.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis behavioral \u2018counter-bias\u2019 might be rooted in people\u2019s concerns about the social and legal consequences of shooting a member of a historically oppressed racial or ethnic group,\u201d said the paper, which went practically unnoticed when it was published online on May 22, but took on new significance in the wake of a series of high-profile police-involved shootings involving black victims over the summer.<\/p>\n

The results back up what one of the researchers, University of Missouri-St. Louis professor David Klinger, has found after independently interviewing more than 300 police officers: While they don\u2019t want to shoot anybody, they really don\u2019t want to shoot black suspects.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcross these 300 interviews, I have multiple officers telling me that they didn\u2019t shoot only because the suspect was black or the suspect was a woman, or something that would not be consistent with this narrative of cops out there running and gunning,\u201d said Mr. Klinger, a former cop and author of \u201cInto the Kill Zone: A Cop\u2019s Eye View of Deadly Force\u201d (2006).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to the issue of race, I\u2019ve never had a single officer tell me, \u2018I didn\u2019t shoot a guy because he was white.\u2019 I\u2019ve had multiple officers tell me, \u2018I didn\u2019t shoot a guy because he was black,\u2019 \u201d Mr. Klinger said. \u201cAnd this is 10, even 20 years ago. Officers are alert to the fact that if they shoot a black individual, the odds of social outcry are far greater than if they shoot a white individual.\u201d<\/p>\n

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