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FRYER: “But we didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings. Now, that was really surprising to me because I expected to see it. The little known fact is, I had eight full-time RAs that it took to do this over nearly a year. When I found this surprising result, I hired eight fresh ones and re-did it to make sure. They came up with the same exact answer, and I thought it was robust. And then I went to go give it, and my God, all hell broke loose. It was a 104-page dense academic economics paper with a 150-page appendix, okay? It was posted for four minutes when I got my first email, 'This is full of sh*t. It doesn’t make any sense.' And I wrote back, 'How'd you read it that fast? That’s amazing. You are a genius.' And I had colleagues take me in to the side and say, 'Don’t publish this. You’ll ruin your career.' I said, 'What are you talking about?' I said, 'What’s wrong with it? Do you believe the first part?' 'Yes.' 'Do you believe in the second part?' 'Well, it’s — the issue is they just don’t fit together. We like the first one, but you should publish the second one another time.' I said, 'Let me ask this. If the second part about the police shootings...' — this is the literal conversation. I said to them, 'If the second part showed bias, do you think I should publish it then?' And they said, 'Yeah, then it would make sense.' And I said, 'I guarantee, I’ll publish it. We’ll see what happens.' So, it was — it was — you know, I lived under — under police protection for about 30 or 40 days. I had a seven-day-old daughter at the time.”