Another Police Officer Murdered… due to the lie upon which the NFL takes a knee

People are using a faulty comparison fallacy to publicize an emotionally charged lie that stirs up unjustified rage that has incited violence.

The claim is that Law Enforcement Officers in America are racist, disproportionately targeting black males.

This is a lie.  Yet, nobody calls it out as such.

NFL players kneel on it.  One even justified his “Anthem kneeling” by stating that “black men are being gunned down in the street by racist cops”.  The implication evokes images of astonishing body counts as though there was a war raging.
This claim is a lie.  The statistics used to support this lie are not related; percentages are used that do not indicate nearly the tremendous number these activists are implying.

I did some research… and none of the sources of information I found even agreed on the actual number of decedents.  I just picked one to illustrate my point.

One claimed that of the  1,129 people officers killed, 27 percent were Black — despite Blacks being just 13 percent of the U.S. population.
This is 305 persons… out of well over 45 million persons encountering police (a special category, total U.S. population is irrelevant to this comparison).

This black decedents to “persons encountering police” comparison is 0.0007% as opposed to 0.0018 non-black decedents.
Comparing that micro-percentage with 13 percent of the total population of America is a faulty comparison:

• 325.7 million people, 74.5 million black… 86% of whom did NOT experience a police encounter, so the 13% comparison is a faulty comparison…
• 0.0007% of people who actually did encounter police officers is a micro-percentage that is more appropriately attributed to behavior than race

Do not allow people to emotionally charge this issue!  Correct anyone who claims police are racist.  Use the above numbers to support your rebuttal. 

The fomenting rage against police is inciting violence against officers.

Do not allow people to spread lies using faulty comparisons of statistical data as phony “proof” of endemic racism in law enforcement… 1000 people, regardless of demographics, do not represent a universal policy or attitude within law enforcement.

Law Enforcement Officers are NOT racist.  PERIOD.