From the Prager University YouTube video page: “Are the police racist?  Do they disproportionately shoot African-Americans?  Are incidents in places like Ferguson and Baltimore evidence of systemic discrimination?  Heather Mac Donald, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute, explains.”

Heather Mac Donald is the author of the book “The War on Cops.”

Following is a summary of key points in the video:

— A Harvard University professor Roland Fryer conducted a study of more than 1,000 officer involved shootings across the country, and he concluded that here is zero evidence of racial bias in police shootings.  In fact he found that in some cases blacks are less likely to be shot by police officers, even though the suspects are armed or violent.

— The Washington Post reported that 12% of whites who die of homicide are killed by cops, and by contrast only 4% of black homicide victims are killed by cops.

— Blacks make up 26% of police shooting victims, but they only make up 13% of the national population.  However, in the 75 largest counties of the U.S., blacks commit 62% of robberies, 57% of murders, and 45% of assaults, which put them in situations with police officers in far higher numbers.

— In New York City, blacks commit nearly 75% of all shootings, although they are only 23% of the city’s population.  By contrast, whites commit only 2% of all shootings in New York, while they are 34% of the population.

— New York’s crime disparities are repeated in virtually every racially diverse city in America.  The real problem facing black communities is not the police, but rather it is black crime.

— In 2014, over 6,000 blacks were murdered, which is more than all white and Hispanic victims combined, with most being killed by other blacks.

— Police officers are over 18.5 time more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.

— If police ended all use of lethal force tomorrow, it would have a negligible impact on the black death-by-homicide rate.

— In Chicago during the first half of 2016, over 2,300 people were shot, which is over one person an hour during some weekends, with the vast majority of victims being black.  And during the same period the Chicago police shot 12 black people, all of whom were armed and dangerous, which is only 1/2 of 1% of all shootings.

— There is no government agency dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter more than the police.  Pro-active policing that began in the 1990’s has brought down crime dramatically, saving tens of thousands of black lives.  But that crime decline in now in jeopardy due to police backing off of pro-active policing due to the false narrative that police are “infected with homicidal bias,” which is resulting in violent crime rising.

— In 2015, black homicide rates in Washington D.C. rose by 54%, and in Cleveland, Ohio they rose by 90%.  Overall in the largest cities of the U.S., homicide rates rose by 17%, which is an unprecedented one year spike.

— Many residents of high crime areas beg the police to enforce the laws, however groups such as the ACLU, “progressive” politicians, and the Obama justice department actually denounce such agendas as racist, which is tragic because when the police refrain from policing, black lives are lost, and they are lost because of a myth.