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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/u

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Looks like there is bias in most things, but not shootings. But there is a significant racial bias in shootings of off-duty police officers. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/criminaljustice-backup/publications/Police-on-Police_Shootings.pdf https://www.hks.harvard.edu/criminaljustice-backup/publicati... (I wonder if the lack of apparent bias in general shootings is actually multiple biases stacking up together; given the prevalence of same-race violent crime, a lack of enforcement priority for violent crimes against blacks would, ceteris paribus, mean less encounters -- proportionately to the crime rate -- with black violent criminals, which might be offset by an increased propensity -- compared to provocation -- to escalating to lethal force against blacks in encounters to look, in aggregate, like a lack of bias in shootings, but also would tend to create a justified feeling of disproportionate numbers of unjustified shootings targeting blacks.)