{"id":1475250,"date":"2022-05-14T12:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475250"},"modified":"2022-05-14T12:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T16:44:47","slug":"he-looked-at-the-data-and-discovered-the-blm-narrative-about-cops-was-a-lie-then-he-was-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-looked-at-the-data-and-discovered-the-blm-narrative-about-cops-was-a-lie-then-he-was-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"He Looked At The Data And Discovered The BLM Narrative About Cops Was A Lie. Then He Was Fired."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhe-looked-at-the-data-and-discovered-the-blm-narrative-about-cops-was-a-lie-then-he-was-fired%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475250&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-488288449.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Zac Kriegman had worked at Thomson Reuters for more than six years, most recently as a director of data scientists. Concerned with data and statistics, Kriegman and his team advised numerous other divisions within the wire service, providing the information needed to report important information in news articles.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2020, Kriegman noticed changes within the company, with coworkers publishing numerous articles about \u201cWhite Privilege\u201d on the company\u2019s internal collaboration platform. When the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots broke out that summer, the platform was filled with support for the organization without any question as to the narrative being told about race in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis concerned me. I had been following the academic research on BLM for years (for example,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.hkvisa.net\/10.1007\/s10940-019-09438-5\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.hkvisa.net\/10.1016\/j.jcrimjus.2019.101653\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.hkvisa.net\/10.1177\/1948550618775108\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.hkvisa.net\/10.1080\/0735648X.2018.1547269\">here<\/a>), and I had come to the conclusion that the claim upon which the whole movement rested\u2014that police more readily shoot black people\u2014was false,\u201d Kriegman wrote in an article published on Bari Weiss\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/i-criticized-blm-then-i-was-fired?s=r\">substack<\/a>. \u201c\u00a0The data was unequivocal. It showed that, if anything, police were slightly\u00a0<em>less<\/em>\u00a0likely to use lethal force against black suspects than white ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kriegman discovered that, based on a database of police shootings compiled by The Washington Post, police have fatally shot 39% more unarmed white people than black people in the past five years. BLM activists have insisted, however, that since there are six times as many white people in America as black people, police should be shooting 600% more. Anything less, Kriegman wrote, is evidence to the activists of police bias.<\/p>\n<p>Kriegman suggested that such a comparison isn\u2019t as accurate as comparing \u201cBlack suspects who pose a grave danger and white suspects who do the same,\u201d but wrote that there isn\u2019t reliable data for such a comparison. Instead, he used Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County Patrick Frey\u2019s calculations based on FBI data that found \u201cblack Americans account for 37 percent of those who murder police officers, and 34 percent of the unarmed suspects killed by police. Meanwhile, whites make up 42.7 percent of cop killers and 42 percent of the unarmed suspects shot by police\u2014meaning whites are killed by police at a 7 percent higher rate than blacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kriegman broadened the analysis to include armed suspects, finding that with those numbers included, whites are shot at a 70% higher rate than blacks. He then mentions the only study that looks at the rate at which police use lethal force across racial groups, conducted by Harvard economist Roland Fryer. Fryer, who is black, tried to prove BLM\u2019s narrative in 2016, but ended up disproving it by finding that, while black Americans and Latinos may experience some amount of police force, they are slightly less likely to be shot by police than whites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, because the BLM narrative was now conventional wisdom, police departments, under intense scrutiny from left-wing politicians and activists, scaled back patrols in dangerous neighborhoods filled with vulnerable black residents. This led to soaring violence in many communities and thousands of needless deaths\u2014otherwise known as the Ferguson Effect,\u201d Kriegman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>When he shared his findings on Reuters\u2019 collaboration platform, he was met with vitriol by white coworkers who lobbed insults at him rather than provide \u201ceven a single substantive challenge to the facts I was citing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kriegman wrote that his post was removed when he stated his concerns and told that if he discussed the issue on internal company communications channels, he would be fired. Without a resolution, Kriegman emailed colleagues and company leadership discussing the attacks. The next day he was told by Human Resources that he no longer had access to his company computer or communications systems. Three days after that, he was fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA decade ago, my experience at Thomson Reuters would have been unthinkable. Most Americans probably think it\u2019s still unthinkable. That\u2019s what makes it so dangerous. Most of us don\u2019t understand how deeply compromised our news sources have become. Most of us have no idea that we are suffused with fictions and half-truths that sound sort of believable and are shielded from scrutiny by people whose job is to challenge them. This is true, above all, of my fellow liberals, who assume that only Republicans complain about the mainstream media. But this is not a partisan issue. This is a We The People issue,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zac Kriegman had worked at Thomson Reuters for more than six years, most recently as a director of data scientists. 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