The New York Post (of all places!) exposes the myth that killer cops are a threat to everyday Americans – and particularly to young black men.

They report on what we all know (at least those of us who live in the real world):  The “Black Lives Matter” mantra is all make-believe.

The myth of the killer-cop ‘epidemic’

To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent unarmed people, some of them teens, just for sport.

Except that these homicidal goons are wearing the blues and badges of American police departments.

It’s the narrative that’s given rise to the protest movement Black Lives Matter and to a growing public mistrust of the police in general. From Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., to the recent shooting of a middle-aged woman and a teen in Chicago, the body count seemingly keeps rising, exacerbating racial tensions and keeping the nation on edge. And each incident is breathlessly reported by a media determined to show that America remains deeply, irredeemably racist.

Problem is, it’s simply not true.

Emphasis added.

• White cops shooting unarmed black men accounted for less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings.

• In three-quarters of the incidents, cops were either under attack themselves or defending civilians. In other words, doing their jobs.

• The majority of those killed were brandishing weapons, suicidal or mentally troubled or bolted when ordered to surrender.

• Nearly a third of police shootings resulted from car chases that began with a minor traffic stop.

…The moral of this story is: Don’t point a gun at the cops and don’t run when they tell you stop, and you’re likely to survive. Since the population of the US is about 318 million people, a thousand deaths at the hands of police works out to 1 in 318,000. You have a better chance of being killed in a violent storm (1 in 68,000) or slipping in the tub (1 in 11,500) than being shot by a cop, no matter what color you are.

Emphasis added again.

The problem lies at the feet of people who weren’t brought up to respect and obey police officers.  While you may disagree with Mr. Police Officer, the side of the road or the street corner is not the place to debate it.  Let the officer have the final word during the incident, and later, you can have the final action in federal court if you were wronged.

Then the Post goes on to touch the third rail of mainstream media reporting:

Still, the “killer cop” narrative refuses to die, and the Washington Post decided to throw fuel on the racial fire with context-free statements like these: “Although black men make up only 6 percent of the US population, they account for 40 percent of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year.”

This ignores the fact that black violent-crime rates are far higher than those of whites. According to the Department of Justice, blacks committed 52.5 percent of the murders in America from 1980 to 2008, when they represented 12.6 percent of the population.

They went there!  Emphasis added.

The worst neighborhoods in Chicago — say, West Garfield Park, where gangs run rampant — have a higher murder rate (116.7 per 100,000) than world murder capitals like Honduras (90.4).

But no, best not to mention. That only distracts from the real problem — the cops trying to stop it.

Amen.

In Chicago, the number of officer involved shootings is down 40% – hardly what the media portrays on a daily basis.

CHICAGO (WGN-TV) — Chicago police shot fewer people in 2015 than recent years despite police-involved shootings that have drawn national headlines.

The Chicago Tribune reports officers shot 22 people last year, eight of them fatally. That’s a 40 percent dip in the total number compared with 2014 when 37 people were shot and 16 killed.

The number of people shot by Chicago police officers has gradually dropped since 2011 when officers shot 56 people, 24 fatally. In 2012, Chicago cops shot 45 people, killing 12. In 2013, officers shot 35 people, killing 14.

Could this have to do with the “Ferguson Effect“?  The Ferguson Effect is where police officers are less inclined to be aggressive in their law enforcement duties so they won’t find themselves under intense scrutiny from the Department of Justice for merely faithfully doing their jobs – as happened to Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson.