If there’s one thing that the secular left wants you to believe about the police, it’s that white police officers are constantly shooting innocent black people with no criminal records for “crimes” like wearing “baggy pants”. When I speak with secular leftists, especially women, this view is taken as being as true as the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun. But is it?

You might not know about this, but there is a pretty interesting black professor of Economics teaching at Harvard University. The Free Press has an article about him:

Roland Fryer, an economics professor at Harvard, is a superstar by any measure. At the age of 30, he became the youngest black person ever to receive tenure at the Harvard. The MacArthur Foundation declared him a genius in 2011. And in 2015 Fryer won the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, given yearly to the most promising economist under 40.

[…]Abandoned at birth by his mother, Fryer clawed his way out of poverty to land a spot at the University of Texas, Arlington, earned his Ph.D. at Penn State, done postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago with the Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, and, finally, wound up at Harvard, where he eventually met his wife, a biologist, and became one of the university’s most celebrated professors.

OK, that’s very interesting. But now he’s authored a new study that has caused him to require armed security.

Here’s a report about it from the Daily Caller, based on a recent interview with Bari Weiss.

Harvard economics Professor Roland Fryer needed armed security with him to go out in public after he published a study finding no evidence of racial bias in officer-involved shootings, he said in an interview with The Free Press founder Bari Weiss.

Fryer, a top economist who became the youngest tenured black professor in Harvard’s history at just 30 years old, published a study in 2016 showing there was “no racial differences in officer involved-shootings.” After he published the study, “all hell broke loose,” Fryer told Weiss, noting people “lose their mind when they don’t like the result.”

“I lived under police protection for about 30 to 40 days,” he said during the interview. “I had a seven day old daughter at the time…I was going to the grocery store to get diapers with an armed guard.”

And here is his conclusion:

“On the most extreme use of force – officer involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account,” Fryer’s study found.

[…]He said he was “surprised” by the result because he expected to find evidence of bias.

[…]After the study was complete, Fryer said he hired eight additional freshmen to redo the study but came up with the same result.

Here’s a clip from the podcast that was posted on Twitter:

If you want to listen to the full podcast, it’s up at The Free Press.