The Factor welcomed policy analyst and author Heather MacDonald, who has long focused on the intersection of race and crime. She contended that the perception that cops kill black men is a myth. "If the media seized on every video of an officer killing a white person," she said, "we might think there is an epidemic of police killing whites. This is a media-driven phenomenon and I would love to see the media focus on the children whose lives have been lost because police have backed off from the pro-active policing that the media denounces as racist." MacDonald lamented that murders are on the rise in some parts of the country. "In cities with large black populations the rise in violent crime is truly alarming. Who is being killed? Blacks. And who is killing them? Not the police, but other blacks. This is what happens when police back off from the pro-active policing that gave us an unprecedented drop in crime."
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