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>Finally, analysis of police shooting data as a function of county-level predictors suggests that racial bias in police shootings is most likely to emerge in po
by Cenk 10y ago
>Finally, analysis of police shooting data as a function of county-level predictors suggests that racial bias in police shootings is most likely to emerge in police departments in larger metropolitan counties with low median incomes and a sizable portion of black residents, especially when there is high financial inequality in that county. There is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias observed in police shootings in this data set is not explainable as a response to local-level crime rates.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141854 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
- Unklejoe 10y ago[ Finally, analysis of police shooting data as a function of county-level predictors suggests that racial bias in police shootings is most likely to emerge in police departments in larger metropolitan counties with low median incomes and a sizable portion of black residents ... ] That's a lot to go through this early in the morning, so forgive me if this has been covered already, but did they analyze the risk of police officers being attacked/killed by the particular race that there's a (police shooting) bias against compared to other races in those counties? I'm curious if there's a correlation between "assault on police officers is X times more likely to occur by someone from race Y" and "police officers are Z times more likely to shoot someone of race Y". I'm not trying to imply anything (even though I know it sounds that way). I'm just curious.
- Cenk 10y agoGood question! In 2015 26 police officers were killed in the line of duty. Of those, half were black (which is disproportionate, only 12% of police officers are black). I couldn’t find out what percentage of the 26 police officers were killed by black people without reading up on every case. Wikipedia has a complete list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_police_officers_killed_in_the_line_of_duty#2015_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_police_office...
- fmdwl 10y ago>In 2015 26 police officers were killed in the line of duty. 126 actually, according to the list on Wikipedia. Typo? I'll make a table with the race of the officer and the assailant for all assault incidents (so no accidents, heart attacks, etc). Check back in a bit.
- Cenk 10y agoI just saw that I pulled the 26 from an article that was written in September 2015, so it’s out of date. List from https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2015 https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2015 Line of Duty Deaths: 130 9/11 related illness: 8 Accidental: 2 Aircraft accident: 1 Assault: 3 Automobile accident: 27 Bomb: 6 Drowned: 1 Duty related illness: 2 Fall: 1 Gunfire: 39 Gunfire (Accidental): 2 Heart attack: 17 Motorcycle accident: 3 Struck by vehicle: 4 Vehicle pursuit: 5 Vehicular assault: 8 Weather/Natural disaster: 1 So police officers killed would be 48? (Gunfire: 39 + Assault: 3 + Bomb: 6)
- DanBC 10y agoYou missed "struck by vehicle", and I think you've assumed all those gun deaths had non-officer shooters.
- Cenk 10y agoI think they categorise friendly fire under Gunfire (Accidental)?
- dragonwriter 10y agoNot all officer-on-officer shootings are accidental (the non-accidental ones are often, as is sometimes the case for officer-on-civilian shootings, based on mistaken perceptions of the officer doing the shooting, but still deliberate shootings.) See, e.g., https://www.hks.harvard.edu/criminaljustice-backup/publications/Police-on-Police_Shootings.pdf https://www.hks.harvard.edu/criminaljustice-backup/publicati...