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His research on police brutality and school incentives won him acclaim, but also enemies. He was suspended for two years by Harvard, during which time he took a hard look at corporate diversity programs. As a follow-up to our recent series on the Rooney Rule, we revisit our 2022 conversation with the controversial economist. SOURCE:Roland Fryer, professor of economics at Harvard University. RESOURCES:"How to Make Up the Covid Learning Loss," by Roland Fryer (Wall Street Journal, 2022)."Roland Fryer on Better Alternatives to Defunding the Police," by Roland Fryer (The Economist, 2020)."Harvard Suspends Roland Fryer, Star Economist, After Sexual Harassment Claims," by Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley (The New York Times, 2019)."Why Diversity Programs Fail: And What Works Better," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev (Harvard Business Review, 2016)."An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force," by Roland G. Fryer, Jr (NBER Working Paper, 2016)."Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City," by Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer (American Economics Journal, 2013)."Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence From Randomized Trials," by Roland G. Fryer (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011)."Toward a Unified Theory of Black America," by Stephen J. Dubner (The New York Times, 2005).Equal Opportunity Ventures.Intus Care.Reconstruction.Sigma Squared. EXTRAS:"Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring?" series by Freakonomics Radio (2024)."The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap," by Freakonomics Radio (2016)."Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?" by Freakonomics Radio (2015).
"Aren't More White People Than Black People Killed by Police?" (Washington Post)“Stories and Data: Reflections on race, riots, and police” by Coleman Hughes"Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About" by Wilfred Reilly"AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN POLICE USE OF FORCE" by Roland G. Fryer, JrExcellent Interview of Former African American Police Officer (The Rubin Report)POLICE TRAINING:Simulator Puts You In Pressure SituationsPolice Brutality Activist Fails Use of Force TestHow Do Police Making Shooting Decisions?Truth About Breonna Taylor's Case: YoutubeMore Leaked Evidence About Breonna Taylor's CaseBreonna Taylor; Just the Facts and Law (Nate the Lawyer)Breonna Taylor ReportMore Official ReportsJacob Blake Police Shooting Was JustifiedDocumentary by Steele: What Killed Michael Brown?I stated that Amazon refused to publish the documentary, which they did. And they said that they would not reconsider. But apparently enough bad press changed their minds. Shelbey Steele is a highly regarded American Intellectual. I'm very pleased to report that Amazon has reversed their decision! It's well worth the purchase. Please get the word out!
Geetings all,This episode we revisit the police brutality narrative being pushed across the nation as riots continue in Communist controlled cities of America. Recently leaked police body camera footage shows a whole different story about the George Floyd incident and truly brings to attention the question of why would our mainstream media and government want to push edited video of an incident to allow death and destruction to erupt in our country because of a very sad George Floyd incident. You have all heard the chants, "I Can't Breathe," "Hands up, don't shoot," "Pigs in a pan, fry them like bacon," "No Justice, No Peace." If you look at the newly leaked body cam footage, you can clearly see and hear George Floyd is high as kite and saying "I can't Breathe." What if he would of been able to drive off that day? Would he of ran down kids on the sidewalk, caused an accident, or worse due to the Fentanyl coursing through his body? As much as it is tragic, it still begs to question why the push for de-funding police departments across the country? Statistics can be readily found by researching FBI Crime Statistics, NYPD, Bureau of Justice Statistics and countless studies on alleged police brutality against black Americans have been done by Liberal supported groups like the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard Economist Roland G. Fryer, Michigan State University, Arizona State University, Center for Policing Equity, Maryland Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, California State University, and many more. These are very extensive studies and none have found any evidence suggesting black people are the target of police brutality. Actually .1% of all black homicide victims were at the hands of police involved shootings. Fact is over the last 5 years, almost 86% of black homicide victims were at the hands of other black people. So .1% police versus 86% black caused is the reason people are pushing the "Defund the Police" agenda??? Why? Ask yourselves why. Facts are that if you are white or hispanic you have a 3 times higher chance of being shot and killed by a police involved shooting that black people are. The real issue to address is black on black crime. Yet, Americans are gullible, lazy morons who believe everything our mainstream media tells us to. Why? If they blatantly lie about the police brutality facts, are they telling us the truth about COVID-19? Black people may make up 13% of the total population, but commit 60% of violent crimes. Do your research people before you choose to join the sheep trying to destroy this country over blatant lies.
July 24, 2020 Carter and Keri discuss Red Bull's recent purge of SJWs, Nick Sandmann's settlement, and how Socrates can be used to fight magic. LINKS MENTIONED, USED OR REFERENCED IN TODAY'S SHOW Nick Sandmann lawsuit update: https://twitter.com/N1ckSandmann/status/1286675866408431616 Comparative data for Sweden Covid-19 deaths, as compared to the rest of the world: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa Roland G. Fryer article: https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force Roland G. Fryer WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_G._Fryer_Jr. Dr. K & Keri conversation: July 23rd on Karlyn's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8mr6GU3l1M ULTRA-MEGA SUPER-HUGE shout-out to Dr. K for donating ALL of this show Super-Chats to Unsafe Space travel fund to Better Discourse Conference coming up soon. This will include Karlyn as a speaker, so will be extra special for all who attend Unsafe Space Book Club "Atlas Shrugged" https://unsafespace.com/book-club/ NOTE: The next live meeting will be August 23rd at 12PM noon (PST). Thanks for watching! Please don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Follow us on the following social media channels...at least until we get banned: Twitter: @unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Pick up some Unsafe Space merch at unsafespace.com! YouTube link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/LXY2Abi2HL0
It's high time for another feedback episode! Listeners chime in on questions, comments, and concerns regarding how to talk with your conservative friends and families, BLM, billionaires, blaxit, and more. Lots of stats, lots of studies, lots of reports to peruse! Links mentioned in this podcast... On "Moral Licensing" Revisionist History Podcast, "The Lady Vanishes" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, "Endorsing Obama Licenses Favoring Whites" On police brutality University of Chicago Law School - International Human Rights Clinic, "Deadly Discretion: The Failure of Police Use of Force Policies to Meet Fundamental International Human Rights Law and Standards" NBER Working Paper, "An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force" by Roland G. Fryer, Jr. Wall Street Journal, "What the Data Say About Police", by Roland G. Fryer, Jr. Criticism of Dr. Fryer's paper Snopes, "Harvard Study Doesn't Disprove Racial Bias in Officer-Involved Shootings" Slate, "The Research is Only as Good as the Data" Washington Post, "Why it’s impossible to calculate the percentage of police shootings that are legitimate" On the "School-to-Prison Pipeline" Wikipedia overview ACLU, "School-to-Prison Pipeline" Education Week, "Policing America's Schools" ABC News, "FBI: More than 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013" On the "Blaxit" to Africa BBC, "The African American who moved to Ghana 'to escape US racism'"
In this special edition of GoodFellows, we’re joined by Roland Fryer, Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His work on education, inequality, and race has been widely cited in media outlets and in Congressional testimony. In this wide ranging conversation on the events of the past 10 days, the GoodFellows (moderated by Niall Ferguson - Bill Whalen is off this week) discuss Roland’s experiences with law enforcement as a teenager, which informed his future work researching the use of force by police departments and the disparities in how it is applied to African Americans. They also discuss one of the more radical proposals stemming from the George Floyd murder: defunding police departments. The implications of enacting that idea are wide-ranging, and the GoodFellows have a lot to say about it. The conversation then takes up other possible reforms: changing the organizational culture of police departments, engaging departments more with the communities they police, and improving communication —between the police, citizens, community activists, politicians, and yes, academics-- as our best hope to emerge from this tragedy with a better society. SPECIAL GUEST:Roland G. Fryer, Jr. is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Fryer's research combines economic theory, empirical evidence, and randomized experiments to help design more effective government policies. His work on education, inequality, and race has been widely cited in media outlets and Congressional testimony. Professor Fryer was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and the John Bates Clark Medal -- given by the American Economic Association to the best American Economist under age 40. Among other honors, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Calvó-Armengol Prize and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. At age 30, he became the youngest African-American to receive tenure at Harvard.His current research focuses on education reform, social interactions, and police use of force.Recorded June 5, 2020 NOON PT
Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He has taught previously at Boston, Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and the University of Michigan. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern University, 1972) and a Ph.D. in Economics (MIT, 1976). Professor Loury has published mainly in the areas of applied microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality. He has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, Member of the American Philosophical Society, Vice President of the American Economics Association, and President of the Eastern Economics Association. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Scholarship to support his work. As a prominent social critic and public intellectual, writing mainly on the themes of racial inequality and social policy, Professor Loury has published over 200 essays and reviews in journals of public affairs in the U.S. and abroad. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a contributing editor at The Boston Review, and was for many years a contributing editor at The New Republic. Professor Loury’s books include One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (The Free Press, 1995 – winner of the American Book Award and the Christianity Today Book Award); The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Harvard University Press, 2002); Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK (ed., Cambridge University Press, 2005); and, Race, Incarceration and American Values (M.I.T. Press, 2008). Glenn Loury hosts The Glenn Show on Bloggingheads.tv, and he can be reached on Twitter at @GlennLoury. Books and articles discussed in this podcast: Ta-Nehisi Coates. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic. June, 2014. Thomas Chatterton Williams. “Loaded Dice.” The London Review of Books. December, 2015. Benjamin Wallace-Wells. “The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi Coates.” New York Magazine. July, 2015. Jill Leovy. Ghettoside. Spiegel & Grau. 2015. Roland G. Fryer, Jr. “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force.” National Bureau of Economic Research working paper. July, 2016. Glenn C. Loury. “Ferguson Won’t Change Anything. What Will?” The Boston Review. January, 2015.
Roland G. Fryer Jr. is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, founder and faculty director of the Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard and a former junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (May 14, 2014)
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