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Topic	CNN response on why teachers shouldn't be armed: they'll use guns more on blacks
s0nicfan 02/23/18 3:27:09 PM #38:	Balrog0 posted... s0nicfan posted... And if you want to cite studies, we can reference the fact that police statistically are more likely to rough up a black criminal versus a white one, but less likely to shoot and kill a black criminal versus a white one. If you want to extrapolate based on actual gun data, there's no reason to think teachers would be lighting up black kids. You're just fear mongering and race baiting. is that true? I'm only aware of that one study which shows that police are less likely to shoot a black person, by Roland Frye, and it isn't even published yet though this isn't something I look at very much It was a Harvard study done a year or two back by a black professor looking to objectively prove police bias against black criminals in terms of gun violence. He was actually surprised by his results and considered not publishing them, but did so anyway in the name of truth. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html In shootings in these 10 cities involving officers, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white. EDIT: Yea, we're talking about the same guy, though. I had just forgotten his name. Is there something wrong with his study? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:896637249] in CNN respon... [t:76350005]...</cite> <quote><cite>Balrog0 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>s0nicfan posted...</cite> <quote>And if you want to cite studies, we can reference the fact that police statistically are more likely to rough up a black criminal versus a white one, but less likely to shoot and kill a black criminal versus a white one. If you want to extrapolate based on actual gun data, there's no reason to think teachers would be lighting up black kids. You're just fear mongering and race baiting.</quote> is that true? I'm only aware of that one study which shows that police are less likely to shoot a black person, by Roland Frye, and it isn't even published yet though this isn't something I look at very much</quote> It was a Harvard study done a year or two back by a black professor looking to objectively prove police bias against black criminals in terms of gun violence. He was actually surprised by his results and considered not publishing them, but did so anyway in the name of truth. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html <quote>In shootings in these 10 cities involving officers, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white.</quote> EDIT: Yea, we're talking about the same guy, though. I had just forgotten his name. Is there something wrong with his study? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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