Essay On Police Officers Killing Black People

Why has police officers killing black people become a major problem?

For some reason, the killing of black people has become a significant problem for the media which has transferred to the mind of the majority of population who watch it. My question is why? Police officers killed nearly twice as many white people than blacks as proven statistics for 2015 as 14 percent of police homicides were white and hispanic whereas 4 percent were of the black ethnic group. 50 percent of the victims were white people whereas 26 percent were black and 34 percent of another skin colour or race, hispanic e.t.c

Many have argued against those statistics and say they are evidence of racism. The only problem that occurs to my head is that 62 percent of americans population is white whereas

13 perecent of the population are black. A man named Macdonald wrote in his Wall street journal from the Bureau justice statistics show that 62 percent of black people were charged with robbery, 57 percent of murders were by black people, and 45 percent assaults are made by black people.

Why has it become surprising to people at the cases of black men being shot are highlighted more than other races? 13 percent of a race population caused a massive magnitude of crime in the overall statistics for 2009 so it should be accounted for why people of the race could be expected to be more dangerous to engage with…. The statistics prove it. While media perceives the police force to be corrupt, the statistics prove why engaging with a black person can be more threatening, but that does not mean that they are more threatening than any other race of people as they themselves are just as capable. The reason the media chew up cases like these is because black people are considered to be more of a minority to the public world someone who differs from the country of America as we see them as a majority of white people, which somehow makes them more important than anyone who surrounds them.

Now there is no denying that the ratio of black men killed without a gun is bigger than the ratio of white men killed. The ration is 7:1 of black men killed without a sidearm whereas it is 6:1 for white males. However these ratios don’t tell the full story. The unarmed label is very vague and does not cover a vast case of different scenarios as it is a very limited meaning. A total of five victims last year were unarmed but they also did try to reach of a police officer's gun and also reportedly beat multiple cops down with their own equipment causing the discharge of the police officers as it was a life threatening situation. Linking to these cases and the media is a reported case of a 61 year old man who was shot three times as a bystander as a police chased after a thief who had held a pistol at gunpoint to his head. Multiple articles I have read on the situation have made the 61 year old the headline of the situation with the use of words such as innocent ‘black’ “61 year old innocent black bystander shot by undercover new york police officer” The problem with this is, according to the NYPD a thief entered the car threatening to shoot the officer, taking $2,400 and taking off. After the thief pointed the gun towards the officer, this is a life threatening situation so the officer had no choice but to discharge his weapon with the bullets accidentally hitting the bystander in this dangerous scenario.

There is a racist remark as well, that blacks killed by police officers are more than likely white police officers. This is a false accusation as black and hispanic ethnic groups are more likely to shoot blacks than whites, this is according to the Justice department about the Philadelphia police department. This study was further conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Greg Ridgeway who majors in criminology and the final conclusion to the stats were that a black police officer were 3.3 times more likely to discharge a weapon at a crime scene.

After 2015 statistics I can not argue against the point that I think that this is not a controversial topic but a stupid one which has progressively become worse due to social media and media itself.

The fact that more whites are killed by police officers than blacks is enough to go off but the statistics I presented have helped back this statement to. I believe that a vast majority of people who support Black lives matter campaign and their sympathizes are ignorant to the situation at hand and are all just tagging along the band wagon. As a result of this campaign police officers are now reluctant to police neighbourhoods in fear that they’re going to be labeled racists, how does this in anyway make anyone feel safe to know that in the first three months of 2016 that twice as many police officers are victims to fatal shootings than citizens. With murderers running around in your street and less police to risk their lives for the safety of you and your family because of a stupid concept that has ignorant followers and twisted media perspectives. Ignorant ideas implanted in your mind, it is easier to blame police than your race or yourself. Police are not racist, but is it possible that you

are?