Crime data shows Black Lives Matter group making up stats, spreading misinformation
NYC action in solidarity with Ferguson. Mo, encouraging a boycott of Black Friday Consumerism. Image source: Black Lives Matter Black Friday.
The numbers just don’t add up. Black Lives Matter activists claim “killer cops” are slaughtering innocent black people by the hundreds each year — or to break it down even further — every 28 hours a black person is murdered by police.
Is this movement based on mythology? Well — according to actual crime data, yes.
Recent studies by the FBI and Centers for Disease Control, show that between 2003 and 2012, law enforcement officers, on average, killed 429 people each year in “legal interventions.”
“These cases include a relatively small number of innocent people and many more who died due to reasonable use of force,” the NY Post reports
They continued, “when a bank robber thrusts a loaded Glock into a teller’s neck, that’s a really good time for the police to kill him.”
At the same time, due to the “Ferguson Effect” many cops have become reluctant for fear of becoming the next big headline, for just doing their job — leading to a murder explosion in some of the nation’s biggest cities. The Post reports that, year to date, homicides are up 8.3% in New York, 19.2% in Chicago, 51.5 % in St Louis, and 52.5% in Baltimore.
According to the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports, on average, 4,472 black men were killed by other black men annually between 2009 and 2012.
University of Toledo criminologist Dr. Richard Johnson calculates that during the same period — 112 black men, on average, suffered both justified and unjustified police-involved deaths each year. That’s 2.5 percent of the 4,472 yearly deaths.
So, for every black man — criminal or innocent — killed by a cop, 40 black men were murdered by other black men.
Another lie being perpetuated in the media by groups like “Rise Up October” is the claim that there are “over 1,000 people a year killed by police,” which seems to be completely fabricated.
The rage and emotion felt by anti-police protesters who invoke the names of black males who recently died at the hands of cops will likely not go away. But if you are taking on the role of an activist and bringing your message to the national airwaves each day, you just can’t make up your own set of numbers.
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