Washington Post database of police killings find 26% are of black people. Since they make up just 13% of the population, police "wrongly" kill black people disproportionately, right?
Not so fast, my friend. FBI data during that same time frame (2017-2019) show black people comprise 27% of all arrests, 37% of all violent crime arrests and 53% of all murder arrests.
Harvard professor Roland Fryer's analysis of 10 major metropolitan areas found that per police interaction, black suspects/criminals were no more likely to be killed than was a white suspect/criminal.
Three separate Washington State University studies conducted since 1977 have all found that police officers are actually less likely to shoot at a black suspect/criminal than they are a white suspect/criminal.
A joint Michigan State University/University of Maryland study showed a white police officer is no more likely to kill a black suspect/criminal than is a black police officer.
By every metric, black suspects/criminals are not being killed disproportionately. In fact, all the metrics suggest the opposite: they are killed in less proportion. So why is there a widespread belief otherwise? Because we have a compliant media that reports exclusively on what are actually statistically rare questionable killings of black suspects/criminals while ignoring those that happen to suspect/criminals of other races, especially white suspects/criminals.