Angela
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Told you so. In fact, they found a slight anti-white bias. You'll never hear about this in the media, however.
See:
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2019/07/16/1903856116.full.pdf
"Despite extensive attention to racial disparities in police shootings, two problems have hindered progress on this issue. First,databases of fatal officer-involved shootings (FOIS) lack detailsabout officers, making it difficult to test whether racial disparities vary by officer characteristics. Second, there are conflictingviews on which benchmark should be used to determine racialdisparities when the outcome is the rate at which members fromracial groups are fatally shot. We address these issues by creatinga database of FOIS that includes detailed officer information. Wetest racial disparities using an approach that sidesteps the benchmark debate by directly predicting the race of civilians fatally shotrather than comparing the rate at which racial groups are shot tosome benchmark. We report three main findings: 1) As the proportion of Black or Hispanic officers in a FOIS increases, a personshot is more likely to be Black or Hispanic than White, a disparityexplained by county demographics; 2) race-specific county-levelviolent crime strongly predicts the race of the civilian shot; and3) although we find no overall evidence of anti-Black or antiHispanic disparities in fatal shootings, when focusing on differentsubtypes of shootings (e.g., unarmed shootings or “suicide bycop”), data are too uncertain to draw firm conclusions. We highlight the need to enforce federal policies that record both officerand civilian information in FOIS."
See:
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2019/07/16/1903856116.full.pdf
"Despite extensive attention to racial disparities in police shootings, two problems have hindered progress on this issue. First,databases of fatal officer-involved shootings (FOIS) lack detailsabout officers, making it difficult to test whether racial disparities vary by officer characteristics. Second, there are conflictingviews on which benchmark should be used to determine racialdisparities when the outcome is the rate at which members fromracial groups are fatally shot. We address these issues by creatinga database of FOIS that includes detailed officer information. Wetest racial disparities using an approach that sidesteps the benchmark debate by directly predicting the race of civilians fatally shotrather than comparing the rate at which racial groups are shot tosome benchmark. We report three main findings: 1) As the proportion of Black or Hispanic officers in a FOIS increases, a personshot is more likely to be Black or Hispanic than White, a disparityexplained by county demographics; 2) race-specific county-levelviolent crime strongly predicts the race of the civilian shot; and3) although we find no overall evidence of anti-Black or antiHispanic disparities in fatal shootings, when focusing on differentsubtypes of shootings (e.g., unarmed shootings or “suicide bycop”), data are too uncertain to draw firm conclusions. We highlight the need to enforce federal policies that record both officerand civilian information in FOIS."