Dennis Prager Show - The Full Truth About Race and Policing ⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-06-11
Duration: 04:11


=== Police Brutality Myths (04:11) ===

[00:00:00]  Here are a few important statements that he makes in his piece in the Wall Street Journal.
[00:00:09]  According to the Chicago Sun-Times, there were 492 homicides in Chicago last year.
[00:00:17]  Guess how many of them involved the police?
[00:00:23]  492 human beings were killed by another human being.
[00:00:29]  How many do you think involve the police?
[00:00:33]  Why don't you guess, Sean?
[00:00:37]  Alright, what is 5% of 492?
[00:00:40]  Make it 500. 5% of 100 is 5. That means 25. So you guessed 25. You think that's high now.
[00:00:54]  3. The charge of rampant police brutality is another left-wing lie.
[00:01:09]  The left lives on lies.
[00:01:11]  The tragedy is how many young people believe these lies because it's all they hear.
[00:01:20]  Evidence is never offered.
[00:01:21]  It's all emotion.
[00:01:23]  All emotion.
[00:01:26]  To grow up, you must conquer your emotion with the use of reason.
[00:01:32]  Reason is a sort of white privilege now.
[00:01:39]  Three.
[00:01:40]  What's three of 500?
[00:01:43]  So, I mean, we're talking, it's almost a negligible percent.
[00:01:51]  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.
[00:02:02]  In the early 1970s, New York City police officers shot more than 300 people a year.
[00:02:09]  By 2019, that number had fallen to 34. So essentially, a tenth within 50 years.
[00:02:21]  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.
[00:02:33]  Young people are incarcerated at higher rates than older people, and men draw more police attention than women.
[00:02:41]  Is something fishy going on here?
[00:02:43]  Or does such outcomes simply reflect the fact that young men are behind most violent crime?
[00:02:49]  When journalists break down police behavior by race, but don't do the same for criminal behavior, you're not getting the whole story.
[00:02:59]  A recent New York Times report this is an example of the way the New York Times lies.
[00:03:05]  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.
[00:03:25]  Unquote.
[00:03:27]  Left out of the story are the rates at which blacks and whites in Minneapolis commit crime in general, and violent crime in particular.
[00:03:34]  So do you see what the New York Times does, the way it lies?
[00:03:39]  Seven times, proportionately, seven times as many blacks as whites are shot by the police.
[00:03:49]  Because they do it based on the population, but they don't do it based on criminal behavior.
[00:03:57]  So it's irrelevant, isn't it?
[00:04:01]  As he said, why not do it with regard to males?
[00:04:05]  Males are half the population.
[00:04:07]  Females are half the population.
[00:04:08]  How come they don't shoot females 50% of the time?