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Harvard Professor: The Facts About Police Brutality - Roland Fryer

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Roland Fryer is an American economist and tenured professor at Harvard University. He received a PhD in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 2002 and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago with Gary Becker. He joined the faculty of Harvard University and rapidly rose through the academic ranks becoming, at age 30, their second-youngest professor. In 2019, he published an analysis that found black and Hispanic Americans were no more likely than white Americans to be shot by police in a given interaction with police. The paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/701423?mobileUi=0& Watch the Munk Debate: Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitism? Live June 17th. Join today to live stream. Click here: https://bit.ly/munk_debate Monetary Metals: Buy gold and earn interest on it! Find out more at https://monetary-metals.com/triggernometry/ Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I thought I was going to be able to show that the police were biased very easily.

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And then we gathered literally millions and millions of data points on lethal use of force.

0:11.0

What we found was zero racial differences and that is the part

0:14.8

that made people really upset, really angry. Lack of bias made people upset

0:20.3

and angry. Yes, yeah. Yes, the world was turning upside down. Yes, there were threats against me and my family. Police are

0:28.2

rationally responding to what they view as threats, right? When I embedded myself in the Houston Police Department,

0:34.0

I noticed that independent of the skin color,

0:36.0

the police officer was really scared

0:38.0

when he pulled someone over.

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I asked him why.

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He says, man, this is Texas.

0:42.0

We assume everyone's got a gun.

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Roland, it's awesome to have you on the show.

1:08.5

I've been tracking your work for a very long time.

1:11.9

The conversation you had with our good friend Barry Vice was one of the most interesting

1:15.4

and funny things that I've ever seen. Not as it turns out you're a former stand-up or you did stand up for a while.

1:20.7

But before we get into your work and your opinions, there was one particular incident that obviously changed the course of your life quite profoundly.

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