The research is almost useless. Different ethnic groups commit crimes at different rates - even if their is bias in apprehension/monitoring. The question they

The research is almost useless. Different ethnic groups commit crimes at different rates - even if their is bias in apprehension/monitoring. The question they should try to answer is: 'Among interactions with police, how much more or less likely are people to be shot'. This way, we can ignore the possibility that cops are unfairly focusing more on blacks, and isolate and at least assess how much more likely someone is to die. It seems that academia even has a problem with trying to get at the truth and heart of the matter.