Professor Had To Live Under Police Protection With Baby After Research Found No Racial Bias in Policing

The overwhelming narrative in this country goes that a racial bias lies within the police force that disproportionately threatens the safety of black Americans.

Talk show hosts and politicians repeat this message often. Yet they hardly ever cite specific data to support said claim. 

We don't blame them. The data contradicts their message.

Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer, who is black, published a study some seven years ago to see if a racial bias in policing exists. He spoke to Barie Weiss last week about the results, which concluded that there's "no evidence of racial bias in police shootings."

In fact, Fryer's study found that officers are 23.8 percent more likely to shoot at a white person than a black person. It's unclear exactly why this data point didn't tilt the study to suggest there is a racial bias against white citizens. 

Nonetheless, any sane society would've been relieved to hear their skin color is unlikely to play a role in how they are treated by a police officer. 

But not this society. 

Fryer tells Weiss that "all hell broke loose" after he published the study. He said the reaction upended his life. He received the first of many threats just four minutes after publication.

"I had colleagues take me to the side and say, 'Don't publish this. You'll ruin your career,'" Fryer explained.

The threats mounted to such a height that he and his family had to live under police protection for over a month. He could no longer go to the store to buy needs for his seven-day-old daughter without protection.

"I was going to the grocery store to get diapers with the armed guard. It was crazy. It was really, truly crazy," he said.

Two years later, the university suspended Fryer over what he maintains are unfounded allegations of "unwelcome sexual conduct."

Oh, the timing. 

The race mob did not appreciate Fryer publishing the truth. The hypothesis of a systemically racist police force is too crucial to the mob's reason for existence. 

They sent a warning to other researchers studying supposed racial biases:

Leave our messaging alone, regardless of the facts. Or else.

Ultimately, there's no proof to the claim that regular, everyday officers threaten the lives of black Americans. None.  

It only seems that way because the press disparately amplifies police shootings involving black victims, while mostly ignoring white victims of police shootings. 

It’s called narrative manipulation.  

Alas, the demand for racism outstrips the supply.