A Harvard professor published a study that found no evidence of racial bias in police shootings, but then “all hell broke loose” and police protection became necessary.
In 2016, Roland Fryer, a professor of economics at Harvard University, study Examining racial differences in police use of force.
The study looked at racial differences in the use of non-lethal force, such as “putting hands on civilians (including slapping and grabbing) and shoving individuals against walls or the ground.” The study found that Hispanics were more than 50% more likely to have interactions with police that involved the use of force than whites.
The study found that black people are 21% more likely than white people to be involved in an interaction with police in which at least a weapon is drawn.
However, when it comes to police-involved shootings, it turns out that minorities are less likely to be shot by a police officer.
The study found that black people are 23.5% less likely to be shot by police than white people. Meanwhile, Hispanics were 8.5% less likely to be shot by police than whites.
The paper found no evidence of racial bias in officer-involved shootings when the data was broken down into a myriad of ways, including by concentrated margins, such as the timing of the shooting or the number of bullets fired in the attempt. We’ve looked into it and there’s some evidence.” There are no detectable racial differences. ”
In a recent interview, Fryer revealed that there was so much anger over the study’s findings that he needed police protection for his family.
Fryer, who at age 30 became Harvard’s youngest black tenured professor, said the study’s researchers had millions of observations on non-lethal use of force and a number on deadly force. He pointed out that he had collected 1,000 observations.
Despite extensive research, some people were outraged by the results.
“I realized that people lose their minds if they don’t like the results,” Fryer said during a sit-down with journalist Bari Weiss.
Fryer said he was surprised by the results because he “expected” to see racial bias against black people in police shootings.
He hired eight new researchers to confirm that the results were correct, but the results remained the same.
According to Fryer, “all hell broke loose” shortly after the publication of the 104-page economics paper with 150 pages of appendices.
Within four minutes of publishing the paper, Fryer received an email that read: “You’re full of shit.”
“My colleagues told me, ‘Don’t publish this, it’ll ruin your career,'” he explained.
The hostility towards Fryer was so strong that Fryer, including his then seven-day-old daughter, required police protection for about a month.
“I was going to the grocery store to buy diapers with armed guards. It was crazy. It was really, really crazy,” Fryer said on a recent episode of “Honestly with Bari Weiss.”
Fryer is the author of more than 50 papers.
free press “At the age of 34, he won the MacArthur Genius Fellowship, followed by the John Bates Clark Medal, recognized for having made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge,” the professor said. This award is given to American economists under the age of 40. ”
You can listen to the full “Honestly” interview with Roland Fryer below.
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