In the five years after the demise of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, what did we learn from the racial reckoning?
I guess we learned not to do it again.
Or so I hope.
Hence, let’s take a look at the data on the issue that was said to be the cause of the storm: Is there racial bias in police killings?
It hasn’t been talked about much since Trump’s reelection, but law enforcement’s use of deadly force was an obsessive topic during the great awokening. Here’s Google Ngram’s graph of all the times “police shootings” appeared in American books from 1900 to 2022:
Yet all the hubbub was an almost complete flop at reducing fatal police shootings, which have gone up every single year since 2016:
Read the whole thing at Taki’s, including five more graphs.
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We learned that once you become the personification of society's racial sin, you can't get a fair trial and the good and just and powerful will think that's just swell.
If they cry "per capita" on the black deaths by cop on your last graph, they have to confront the black deaths by blacks per capita, as if it isn't bad enough as shown. There are so many examples of focusing on small problems to ignore massive ones, such as black violent crime and Federal debt. Hard to believe we have a free press.
We learned that once you become the personification of society's racial sin, you can't get a fair trial and the good and just and powerful will think that's just swell.
If they cry "per capita" on the black deaths by cop on your last graph, they have to confront the black deaths by blacks per capita, as if it isn't bad enough as shown. There are so many examples of focusing on small problems to ignore massive ones, such as black violent crime and Federal debt. Hard to believe we have a free press.