"White Cops Aren't Victimizing Black Youth" Summary and Critique

                Jack Kelly wrote an intriguing article for Real Clear Politics entitled "White Cops Aren't Victimizing Black Youth."  He discusses how blacks are victimized by the media and the government, especially in the cases of white cops shooting black criminals.  Ezra Ferrerri, an Italian journalist, is quoted in the article stating, "black deaths matter only if the killer is a white cop."  Kelly also lists some statistics of murder victims in St. Louis, Missouri and across the United States.  In St. Louis, 1,138 of the 1,265 murder victims between 2003 and 2012 were black, and 90% of those were killed by other blacks.  Compare that to the statistics across the United States, and we see how similar the rates are.  94% of blacks killed between 1976 and 2011 were killed by other blacks.
 
              Young black men are also twice as likely as young white males to be shot by police officers, and are also more likely to resists arrest.  Kelly argues that these reasons are quite logical when you take into account that more than two thirds of the police officers in America are white, and about one half of violent crimes are committed by blacks.  Thus it is only natural that white cops will shoot black criminals so often.  Finally, Kelly looks at the incidence of police brutality, especially in the case of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.  He claims that even black witnesses swore that excessive force was not used against Michael Brown by the white officer, which was consistent with the physical evidence.  He also mentions the mod violence that was committed by the protesters following that case, in which they looted mostly black-owned businesses in the area and burned down a black church.

                I agree with his statement that these people "aren't 'protesters' who were 'trying to make their voiced heard.'  They're criminals."  I completely agree with this statement.  If we look at the statistics that Jack Kelly presented, it is logical to conclude that the majority of police shootings would involve a white cop and a black criminal.  This does not undermine the brutality of many police officers, which is a problem all of its own, but it does show us that the media blows these cases out of proportion.  We are not presented with all the facts, and therefore the cases that make the "big news" tend to be more biased and racially discriminating in coverage.