Does the truth matter? Not to groups like Black Lives Matter. That's tragic for many reasons,

not the least of which is that Black Lives are being lost as a result. When it comes to the subject

of American police, blacks, and the deadly use of force, here is what we know. A recent deadly

force study by Washington State University researcher Lois James found that police officers were

less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed white or Hispanic ones in simulated

threat scenarios. Harvard economics professor Roland Fryer analyzed more than 1000 officer

involved shootings across the country. He concluded that there is zero evidence of racial bias in police

shootings. In Houston, he found that blacks were 24% less likely than whites to be shot by officers,

even though the suspects were armed or violent. Does the truth matter? An analysis of the

Washington Post's police shooting database and a federal crime statistics reveals that fully 12%

of all whites and Hispanics who die of homicide are killed by cops. By contrast, only 4% of Black

homicide victims are killed by cops. But isn't it a sign of bias that blacks make up 26% of police

shooting victims, but only 13% of the national population? It is not, and common sense suggests why.

Police shootings occur more frequently where officers confront armed or violently resisting suspects.

Those suspects are disproportionately black. According to the most recent study by the Department

of Justice, although blacks were only about 15% of the population in the 75 largest counties in

the US, they were charged with 62% of all robberies, 57% of murders, and 45% of assaults.

In New York City, blacks commit over three quarters of all shootings, though they are only 23% of

the city's population. Whites, by contrast, commit under 2% of all shootings in the city,

though they are 34% of the population. New York's crime disparities are repeated in virtually

every racially diverse city in America. The real problem facing inner city black communities

today is not the police, but criminals. In 2014, over 6,000 blacks were murdered, more than all white

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