In this YouTube video, the professor asks the class how many people were killed by police in 2016. Their estimates are surprisingly good. Then he asks how many were black? Here, their estimates are more the twice as high as the actual number. How many were unarmed? Again, the estimates are wildly high. Why does everyone have the same overinflated misconception? Several offer the media as the cause. The media will focus on the relatively few cases of unarmed victims and never account for the vastly larger number of armed ones. In the end, the professor notes that the odds of an unarmed black man being killed by police are 0.6 in a million. Sure, that's more than it should be, but it is not what is portrayed in the media.
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