Monday, June 22, 2020
Black Lives Matter?
104 shot, 14 fatally, over Father's Day weekend in Chicago.
I assume BLM will organize massive protests and demand that we address the systemic problems that contributed to these deaths.
Basic Probability
Heather Mac Donald:
The latest in a series of studies undercutting the claim of systemic police bias was published in August 2019 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police officer. There is "no significant evidence of antiblack disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police," they concluded.That seems pretty obvious.
Candace Owens
John Hinderaker: A Heroine of Our Time.
Make sure you watch the embedded video (a little over 18 minutes).
For some reason...
Scott Johnson:
Race is all: racial disparities explain all. For some reason, behavioral disparities by race (such as the disparities in family formation or offending and victimization rates) cannot be mentioned, acknowledged, or explored, let alone discussed. They are taboo.
