Instagram Censors FBI Crime Stats Graph As 'Hate Speech'

Instagram is now removing FBI crime statistic graphs

Posted with the necessary citations

As “hate speech”

We are getting to the point where narratives are more important than truth

And the truth when inconvenient makes you a hateful person

This is 1984 pic.twitter.com/ECP2wikj5E

— ELIJAH (@ElijahSchaffer) June 6, 2020

Nationally, efforts to defund the police have been broadly unpopular, with only about 20 percent of Americans favoring reductions in police forces. Citing publicly available data, commentators have asserted that the very idea of systemic racism by police is questionable.

"In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population," Heather Mac Donald wrote in The Wall Street Journal this week.

"In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims," she went on. "Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer."

Mac Donald continued: "A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects. Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. also found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings. Any evidence to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian behavior before and during interactions with police."

Fryer's work has also determined that when police pull out of communities, black deaths tend to increase.

"The false narrative of systemic police bias resulted in targeted killings of officers during the Obama presidency," Mac Donald concluded.