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On the contrary, this was just released: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shooting
by cpr 10y ago
On the contrary, this was just released:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evid...
- frabbit 10y agoWhat is interesting about that table is that it presents not raw counts or counts scaled to the proportions of people of color in our communities, but instead counts "per 10,000 stops". So, if one black guy gets stopped 30,000 times (because he "looked urban and suspicious") and is only shot in 5/30,000 times then he is obviously much better off than the 1 pinky-tan guy who is only stopped twice ever but gets shot to death in that 1/2 times).
- ridgeguy 10y agoThanks for the interesting link, I'll read Fryer's studies. One thing suggested by the last chart in that story is that use of force stats depends strongly on whether the data sets come from police sources or civilian sources. I guess that's not much of a surprise, but it's another confounding variable to partial out.