A Lot of Sanity in 15 Minutes

I'm a long time subscriber to Glenn Beck's internet streams, first signing up right around the time of the legendary “wardrobe malfunction” Super Bowl half time show.  Beck's right hand man for the life of the program has been Stu Burguiere and they talk about having worked together since the first days of the show in Tampa, Florida.  In my early days listening to them on the radio at work, I thought Stu was really the brains of the outfit and Glenn, who described himself as a rodeo clown, was essentially just that.  In the years since, I've come to regard them as a really good team that comes at problems from some very different directions.  Glenn is driven by his emotions while Stu is a much more logical thinker.  On his own shows and on the Blaze TV network he has done a segment called Stu-tistics, in which he takes a decidedly analytical approach to things.  The Glenn Beck show is another example of a situation where the sum is greater than the parts.

We've all seen some of the statistics thrown around about the riots and urban unrest going on.  We've seen Instagram remove the 2013 FBI crime stats because it violates their narrative standards.

Larger version at the above link (90 Miles From Tyranny).

Stu takes a look at some of these stats with a different take than I've heard anywhere else.  I thought the fact of the day Stu quotes is that 144 people a year die from constipation.  If the number we've seen elsewhere is correct that 10 black men were killed by the police last year, then they're over 14 times more likely to die of constipation than from being killed by a cop.  I've heard a lot of demands, but none for free Ex Lax. 


Over 60 people died from an unfortunate lawnmower incident but almost 700 people a year die falling out of bed.

Stu's point, and it's a good one, is that in a population of over 300 Million, something that affects 10 or 20 people is awfully hard do anything about.  All the data we can find that's from real academics and not race hustlers says the rate of these police killings has been declining for years.  If next year's statistics said it was 12 instead of 10, was that a horrible relapse or random variation?  What are the error bands? 

So the cities are going to de-fund police because some radical activists say so?