Dennis Prager Show - Studies Show Zero Evidence of Racial Disparity by Police
Aired: 2020-06-09
Duration: 03:29


=== Black Lives and Police Force (03:29) ===

[00:00:00]  So this is a very big deal.
[00:00:02]  They actually have done studies at Harvard, University of Maryland, Michigan State, found zero evidence for anti-black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force.
[00:00:13]  If anything, there was more anti-white.
[00:00:18]  And they didn't go into the study thinking that that's what they would conclude.
[00:00:22]  Believe me, they were looking for racism and bias.
[00:00:26]  So the whole thing's a lie.
[00:00:31]  You think we know the whole truth?
[00:00:33]  I mean, first of all, how do you know?
[00:00:34]  How do we know?
[00:00:35]  Seriously.
[00:00:36]  How do we know that what was done to George Floyd was racist?
[00:00:40]  How do we know that this officer wouldn't have done that in the exact same circumstance with the white that he was detaining?
[00:00:50]  Right?
[00:00:51]  The amount of assumptions.
[00:00:52]  We also assume that he directly killed him.
[00:00:58]  And...
[00:00:59]  We have reason to believe that there's no question he contributed.
[00:01:02]  If this didn't happen, Floyd wouldn't have died.
[00:01:05]  So that's clear.
[00:01:07]  But there were many other factors, including Floyd's condition, the drugs that were in him at the time.
[00:01:13]  But nobody's interested in truth, because truth is the enemy of leftism.
[00:01:21]  After surveying, this is from a black writer, Jason Reilly.
[00:01:25]  He has a PragerU video, correct?
[00:01:28]  Three.
[00:01:30]  It's in the Wall Street Journal.
[00:01:32]  After surveying more than two dozen federal and state probes of police departments across the country, the pattern became clear.
[00:01:39]  When police were investigated following incidents of deadly force that had gone viral, police activity declined and violent crime spiked.
[00:01:47]  It happened in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown was shot by an officer.
[00:01:51]  It happened in Chicago after a cop gunned down Laquan McDonald.
[00:01:55]  And it occurred in Baltimore after Freddie Gray died in police custody.
[00:02:00]  In Chicago, there was a 90% drop in police civilian contacts immediately after the announcement of an investigation.
[00:02:08]  And, quote, Baltimore literally went to zero after a probe was announced there.
[00:02:14]  In cities where these contacts fell the most, homicides increased the most.
[00:02:19]  Black Lives Matter is a fact.
[00:02:23]  But it is not something that the left takes seriously.
[00:02:27]  Black lives matter when a white kills a black.
[00:02:31]  They don't finish the sentence.
[00:02:35]  Mr. Fryer said that because of changes in policy, this is Fryer of Harvard, in police behavior following investigations in these and other cities, quote, my estimates show that we lost a thousand more lives, most of them black as well.
[00:02:52]  Because of an increase in homicides.
[00:02:55]  So let's say 800 blacks died as a result of the police withdrawing.
[00:03:02]  Does that matter to Black Lives Matter?
[00:03:06]  No, it doesn't.
[00:03:09]  Mr. Fryer said, I never would have guessed that if police stopped putting in the effort, homicides would change like this.
[00:03:15]  You hear some people say, oh, we want to police our own neighborhoods.
[00:03:18]  Get out.
[00:03:20]  No, you don't want that.
[00:03:21]  I guess I always knew it was a foolish idea, but I didn't realize it was this deadly.
[00:03:27]  Well, Minneapolis, I guess you'll find out.