June 11, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
04:11
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| Here are a few important statements that he makes in his piece in the Wall Street Journal. | |
| According to the Chicago Sun-Times, there were 492 homicides in Chicago last year. | |
| Guess how many of them involved the police? | |
| 492 human beings were killed by another human being. | |
| How many do you think involve the police? | |
| Why don't you guess, Sean? | |
| Alright, what is 5% of 492? | |
| Make it 500. 5% of 100 is 5. That means 25. So you guessed 25. You think that's high now. | |
| 3. The charge of rampant police brutality is another left-wing lie. | |
| The left lives on lies. | |
| The tragedy is how many young people believe these lies because it's all they hear. | |
| Evidence is never offered. | |
| It's all emotion. | |
| All emotion. | |
| To grow up, you must conquer your emotion with the use of reason. | |
| Reason is a sort of white privilege now. | |
| Three. | |
| What's three of 500? | |
| So, I mean, we're talking, it's almost a negligible percent. | |
| The available evidence shows that police use of deadly force has plunged in recent decades, including in big cities with large populations of low-income minorities. | |
| In the early 1970s, New York City police officers shot more than 300 people a year. | |
| By 2019, that number had fallen to 34. So essentially, a tenth within 50 years. | |
| Part of the confusion stems from attempts to equate any racial disparities with racism, which is as mistaken as equating age and gender disparities with systemic discrimination. | |
| Young people are incarcerated at higher rates than older people, and men draw more police attention than women. | |
| Is something fishy going on here? | |
| Or does such outcomes simply reflect the fact that young men are behind most violent crime? | |
| When journalists break down police behavior by race, but don't do the same for criminal behavior, you're not getting the whole story. | |
| A recent New York Times report this is an example of the way the New York Times lies. | |
| A recent New York Times report, for example, tells us that the racial makeup of Minneapolis is 20% black and 60% white, and that police there, quote, used force against black people, At a rate at least seven times that of white people during the past five years. | |
| Unquote. | |
| Left out of the story are the rates at which blacks and whites in Minneapolis commit crime in general, and violent crime in particular. | |
| So do you see what the New York Times does, the way it lies? | |
| Seven times, proportionately, seven times as many blacks as whites are shot by the police. | |
| Because they do it based on the population, but they don't do it based on criminal behavior. | |
| So it's irrelevant, isn't it? | |
| As he said, why not do it with regard to males? | |
| Males are half the population. | |
| Females are half the population. | |
| How come they don't shoot females 50% of the time? |
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