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From a gentleman named Roland G,
fryer a professor at Harvard 

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University. 
One of the youngest ever in the 

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economics department to get 
tenure and he has a paper 

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titled, an empirical analysis of
racial differences in Police. 

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Use of force. 
In the abstract. 

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He says, on the most extreme use
of force officer involved 

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shootings. 
We find no racial differences in

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either the raw data or when 
contextual factors are taken 

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into account. 
So just as we see a great 

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disparity in gender, when it 
comes to police shootings, 

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better half the population. 
Yet, 90% of those shot by police

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that is not evidence of 
discrimination. 

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When you take into account, the 
fact, that men are more violent 

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on average than women. 
So, it's actually something we'd

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expect. 
We also see, a big age Gap, 

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younger people, people under 35,
are more likely to be shot Than 

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People older than 35. 
This also Is not the result of 

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discrimination. 
When you take into account, many

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other factors. 
Here is Roland, fryer, 

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summarizing his research. 
A few years ago you dropped a 

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the equivalent of a nuclear bomb
with a study that you published.

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I thought this is going to be 
the easiest paper at ever 

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written. 
In my entire career I was so 

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biased against the police myself
frankly. 

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So I thought this is clear. 
I'm gonna get some data, I'm 

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going to show the police are 
discriminating. 

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So what we did is we collected 
millions and millions of data 

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points across the country. 
So, we did that. 

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And what we found was that there
are large racial differences in 

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lower level uses of force 
putting hands on people for it. 

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I'm up against a car, Etc. 
Someone sent me a note and said,

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oh this you know lower level 
uses of force don't matter 

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because you know I thought it 
was about black lives. 

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This is you know who cares if 
they get pushed up against a car

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and I wrote back, could you give
me your address? 

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I'll come push you up again? 
See how you feel about it? 

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We collected data on 18 cities 
on actual shootings. 

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Anyway, we cut the data. 
There were no racial differences

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in shootings. 
People lost their - it is these 

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12 videos or so or 15 that we've
seen that are horrific. 

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Don't get me wrong, are just not
what the data. 

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Tell you, what we found in the 
data is that when an 

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investigation is announced the 
police pull back and then crime 

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goes up. 
So what we estimate is that for 

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the three awful shootings and 
lives that we lost Michael 

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Brown, Freddie gray and laquan 
McDonald where they were 

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investigations. 
Those investigations Cause a 

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thousand additional lives lost. 
It's really devastating. 

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When you realize that the state 
is given a monopoly on violence,

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and they're told that when a 
police officer tells you to do 

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something, you must obey them, 
or they have the right to 

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forcibly restrain you. 
And then, if you resist, then 

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they have the right to shoot 
you. 

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People look at this, they also 
understand that you have to fund

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the police or else, the police 
will arrest you, and put you in 

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jail and shoot you, if you 
resist then. 

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And they look at that situation 
and say, I bet skin color has a 

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Ought to do with this issue. 
Right here, it's an economic 

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issue. 
It's a moral issue. 

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The race issue is a complete 
distraction. 

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Thanks so much to people like 
Roland fryer and Wilfred, Reilly

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for getting the truth out about 
this issue.