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Exciting to see the R files used to create this are attached and usable by anyone, so this measure can be tracked across time. As much as I can appreciate the b
by andreyk 10y ago
Exciting to see the R files used to create this are attached and usable by anyone, so this measure can be tracked across time. As much as I can appreciate the benefit of having stories of individual cases of police misuse of deadly force for galvanizing activism and attempts at reform, I am not a big fan of emotional rhetoric as the main justification for a given policy stance. Relatively objective measures of how problematic the situation truly is seem far more practical to me, along with campaigns such as http://www.joincampaignzero.org/ http://www.joincampaignzero.org/.
I am no statistics expert, so just curious, anyone here knowledgeable enough to read into the technical details and comment on how good the study quality seems to be?
- louden 10y agoThe methodology they used seems very good and the fact that they share the code is excellent. However, in a study like this, data quality is likely going to be a problem. Collecting good data about the shootings themselves is incredibly difficult considering we have 18,000+ police jurisdictions in the United States and even mundane things like reporting can very between them. Furthermore, the chaos of the situation may make data quality suffer. Unfortunately, the best we can do is announce the limitations of the studies, as the authors did.