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Unfortunately non-white police are more likely to use deadly force [1], so you'd get the same social justice outrage. Good idea in principle though. [1] https:

• mLuby 6y ago
  The second page of that link shows the authors retracted the paper, and they also issued a correction. > we want to correct a sentence in our significance statement that has been quoted by others stating ‘White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.’ This sentence refers to estimating Pr(shotjrace, X). As we estimated Pr(racejshot, X), this sentence should read: ‘As the proportion of White officers in a fatal officer-involved shooting increased, a person fatally shot was not more likely to be of a racial minority.’
  • ciarannolan 6y ago
    They retracted the paper because of political pressure, not because of any factual errors (this is pretty clear in both the timing of the retraction and the retraction statement). > While our data and statistical approach were appropriate for investigating whether officer characteristics are related to the race of civilians fatally shot by police, they are inadequate to address racial disparities in the probability of being shot. That's not what my comment addressed. It addressed the probability of non-white officers shooting to kill being higher than that of white officers. I think that conclusion is still supported by the paper (as in the last line of your quote).