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Um, this study isn't controlling for socioeconomic status? It sort of barely controls for age, which finds lower violence when the officers are older. But it'
by dibujante 9y ago
Um, this study isn't controlling for socioeconomic status?
It sort of barely controls for age, which finds lower violence when the officers are older.
But it's not very convincing. Anecdotally it seems like there is a domestic violence problem in the population, but you can't compare it to the general population. You need to control for education, background, and socioeconomic status.
- comex 9y agoYou don’t actually need a control to make claims about what fraction of police officers are “decent people”. Even if, hypothetically, decency were determined completely by external factors that happen to correlate with being a police officer, that wouldn’t change the fact that any police officer you meet is likely to be less (or more) decent than some baseline of people in general. Though, of course, the source itself may be making stronger claims…