The big lie that American policing is systemically racist poses an existential threat to the rule of law, racial harmony, and the social fabric of the United States of America. This dangerously false narrative is a complete fabrication, manufactured and perpetuated by an alliance of loud and powerful voices. These include the mainstream advocacy media, Antifa anarchist and terrorists, Black Lives Matter, woke Hollywood celebrities, university elites, activist professional athletes and many politicians.
Let's look at the facts. There are two major falsehoods at the core of the myth that policing is systemically racist:
There is an epidemic of racially biased, fatal shootings of black people by the police, motivated by overt racism or implicit bias; and
There are rampant shootings of unarmed black people by the police.
The most definitive study to-date, published by the National Academy of Sciences, shows that 55% of all people fatally shot in America by the police are white — more than double the number of black (27%) or Hispanics (19%). And while black citizens make up 27% of the people shot and killed by the police despite making up only 14% of the U.S. population, the racial disparities in police shootings are not caused by racism. Analysis of crime data from more than 200 U.S. counties show the strongest predictor of being shot by the police is not race, but whether the person is engaging in violent criminal behavior.
Annually, the number of encounters between citizens and the police in the U.S. are at minimum 50 million, and when calculated for multiple contacts during a single incident, more than 200 million. Major databases like
