create a media culture in America where truth and liberty flourish. Canada needs a national database for police use of force and deaths. Cutting police funding may leave the police without the manpower needed to investigate and arrest many violent criminals. Police killings have risen despite a decline in actual killings of police officers (and, as related data show, a decline in assaults of police officers, too). Washington, D.C.'s police department has historically killed civilians at a much higher rate than New York City's, even though Washington had a much higher percentage of black officers. The Libertarian Party recently listed "Michael Brown" and his death as an example of "systemic" racism and "extrajudicial killings, and blatant violence toward black communities" by police. The statistical paradox of police killings In the numbers of fatal encounters with the cops, one kind of discrimination masks another. Rodney Levi was shot and killed by police in Miramichi, N.B.

And now, thanks to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, you can make up to a $300 gift to the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of your choice and use it as a tax deduction on your 2020 taxes, even if you take the standard deduction on your returns. According to statistics reported to the FBI, 89 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2019. If our data from 2015–16 is representative of US Police killings in general, the killings are more likely to occur in poorer areas. Instead of downplaying the harms of looting, people concerned about saving black lives should push for reforms that actually save lives, like repealing state laws that make it hard to fire abusive police officers. CNSNews covers the stories that the liberal media are afraid to touch. List Date Name (age) ... killing one, and fled when the police arrived. The MRC is a research and Statistics Canada estimates there are about 70,000 sworn officers in the country. ", Sarwark also downplays the harms of rioting and looting, quoting an individual who said said, “If seeing people looting stores makes you more upset than watching a cop kill a black man, please work on yourself.”. This year, on Sunday, May 31, Chicago had its deadliest day in 60 years . Libertarian National Committee Chairman Nicholas Sarwark approvingly retweeted a statement by Ben & Jerry's claiming that "the murder of George Floyd was the result" of a "culture of white supremacy" and the "predictable consequence of a racist" system. An 86-page report by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division found that both physical evidence and "credible" witnesses supported Officer Wilson’s version of an event that triggered looting and rioting in Ferguson. Sign up for our CNSNews Daily Newsletter to receive the latest news. But progressives -- and even the Libertarian Party -- persist in depicting Officer Wilson as a murderer. Less than 24% of the 2015–16 police killings occurred in Census tracts where the household income was higher than the national median. Michael Barone describes how he "saw rioting in the name of justice destroy a city for decades." (Photo credit: Johnny Louis/Getty Images). Fact: Police in Canada average 25 fatal shooting a year. But looting can take far more lives than a police shooting. Most people killed by the police have a weapon and pose a threat to the police or innocent third parties. A study by the black Harvard economist Roland Fryer found that police killings are not primarily due to racism, and racism does not play a significant role in police shootings nationally. We are part of the only organization purely dedicated to this critical mission and we need your help to fuel this fight.

People are sometimes murdered by looters, like David Dorn, the black retired police captain shot to death by looters in St. Louis on Tuesday. This compares 9.8 deaths per 10 million residents in Canada, and 8.5 in Australia - perhaps the two most comparable countries to the United States in many respects. But the media, progressives, and political activists often leave the misimpression that the problem is entirely racial. Police in riot gear look on during a protest against police brutality and racism on June 07, 2020 in Hollywood, Florida. When criminals are arrested and jailed, that reduces the crime rate. Thousands of people around the world are killed by law enforcement, both on- and off-duty. As the Associated Press noted in 2007, “Each execution deters an average of 18 murders, according to a 2003 nationwide study by professors at Emory University. This is the fifth consecutive annual increase in the CSI. Donate today to help CNSNews continue to report on topics that the liberal media refuse to touch. So Sarwark seems to be jumping to conclusions. It is often harder to investigate murders in poor black neighborhoods, where witnesses fear retaliation. The Libertarian Party also jumps to conclusions in assuming that disgraceful police killings like the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis are due to race. In its "Friday briefing" to readers like me, the New York Times wrote, "It can often feel like nothing changes with police killings.

Police save many lives in the black community by arresting dangerous people. Hans Bader practices law in Washington, D.C. After studying economics and history at the University of Virginia and law at Harvard, he practiced civil-rights, international-trade, and constitutional law. Removing police from black communities increases the death rate, because black murder victims are usually killed by other black people in the same community. The CBC’s report reveals that Toronto (52), Montreal (26), Edmonton (23), Vancouver (23), and Calgary (19) recorded the most fatal interactions with police. Friday midnight: Biden leads in Pennsylvania (0.4%), Georgia (0.1%), Nevada (1.8%) and Arizona (0.9%); Trump leads in North Carolina (1.4%), Police in riot gear look on during a protest against police brutality and racism on June 07, 2020 in Hollywood, Florida. Mapping Police Violence recently counted 28 unarmed blacks and 51 unarmed whites who died at the hands of police in 2019. Mapping Police Violence is a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in communities. As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, "It was reasonable for police Officer Darren Wilson to be afraid of Michael Brown in their encounter last summer, a Justice Department investigation concluded, and thus he cannot be prosecuted for fatally shooting" Brown. He also once worked in the Education Department. He later crashed his car after a short pursuit, exited the vehicle, and ran toward the police officers with a knife before he was shot. Minnesota has a hate-crimes law that heightens penalties for racially-motivated crimes, but none of those involved in Floyd's killing have been charged with a hate crime because there is currently no evidence that it was committed based on race. Victims remain mostly white if you expand the tally to include off-duty police officers and deaths from causes other than gun shots. (Other studies have estimated the deterred murders per execution at three, five and 14).”.