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Black Harvard professor says ‘all hell broke loose' when his study found no racial bias in police shootings
2024-02-18
[FoxNews] Roland Fryer said he lived under police protection during the fallout of his study

A Harvard professor said that "all hell broke loose" and he was forced to go out in public with armed security after he published a study that found no evidence of racial bias in police shootings.

During a sit-down conversation with Bari Weiss of The Free Press, Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer discussed the fallout from a 2016 study he published on racial bias in Houston policing.
How is that a topic for an economics study rather than sociology or law enforcement? Not arguing with his data, though I’d like to see it replicated with a different data set, just wondering how he came to do the study.
The study found that police were more than twice as likely to manhandle, beat or use some other kind of nonfatal force against blacks and Hispanics than against people of other races. However, the data also determined that officers were 23.8 percent less likely to shoot at blacks and 8.5 percent less likely to shoot at Hispanics than they were to shoot at whites.

When Fryer claimed the data showed "no racial differences in officer-involved shootings," he said, "all hell broke loose," and his life was upended.

Fryer received the first of many complaints and threats four minutes after publication.
Four minutes??? How on earth did that happen?
"You're full of s—t," the sender said.

Fryer said people quickly "lost their minds" and some of his colleagues refused to believe the results after months of asking him not to print the data.

"I had colleagues take me to the side and say, 'Don't publish this. You'll ruin your career,'" Fryer revealed.

The world-renowned economist knew from comments by faculty that he was likely to garner backlash. Fryer admitted that he anticipated the results of the study would be different and would confirm suspicions of racial bias against minorities. When the results found no racial bias, Fryer hired eight new assistants and redid the study. The data came back the same.
Okay then.
After the report was published, Fryer lived under police protection for over a month. He had a seven-day-old daughter at the time and went shopping for diapers.

"I was going to the grocery store to get diapers with the armed guard. It was crazy. It was really, truly crazy," he said.

Fryer, who became the youngest tenured Black professor at Harvard at age 30, was suspended for two years from the university in 2019 after he allegedly engaged in "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature. He continues to deny the allegations.

At the time, then-Harvard dean Claudine Gay claimed Fryer's research and conduct with other employees "exhibited a pattern of behavior" that failed to meet expectations within the community.

"The totality of these behaviors is a clear violation of institutional norms and a betrayal of the trust," she said.

Gay resigned from her position as Harvard president in early January after widespread plagiarism allegations and criticism of her testimony to Congress, where she failed to fully clarify whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard's policies against bullying and harassment.
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Posted by:NoMoreBS

#7  "The totality of these behaviors is a clear violation of institutional norms and a betrayal of the trust," she said.

This is just meaningless corpobabble. Claudine knew how to play the game to get ahead, including power struggles with people she disagreed with. But if she ever read Greek tragedies, she would know that Hubris is generally followed by Nemesis.

If Harvard accepted and published research like Roland Fryer's, it might begin to rebuild its damaged reputation and actually begin leading the country into rational and helpful actions.
Posted by: Tom   2024-02-18 13:39  

#6  He broke the 11 rule of fight club: don’t undercut the narrative.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-02-18 10:52  

#5  imo we need to emulate MLK in that when talking about another their color is omitted.
eg a 'black teen' becomes a teen. continually naming a persons hue only perpetuates division. tough to do as we so love adjectives.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-02-18 09:32  

#4  Van Jones Nails It: Media Only Care About Black Kids Killed by 'White Cops' or 'White Supremacists'
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-02-18 06:56  

#3  #2 Anything that touches on race or climate is especially suspect

It's also everything that involves a lot of money e.g. biomedical research.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-02-18 06:36  

#2  Sadly the scientific research process has been steadily corrupted over the past few decades.

Anything that touches on race or climate is especially suspect.
Posted by: lord garth   2024-02-18 06:31  

#1  Well, if he was white, the paper would've been rejected. And he would be fired.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-02-18 01:04  

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