Larry Elder: WAIT...COPS DON'T KILL BLACKS UNJUSTLY? Studies show police more reluctant to use deadl

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Larry Elder: WAIT...COPS DON'T KILL BLACKS UNJUSTLY? Studies show police more reluctant to use deadly force against African-Americans

By Larry Elder, June 28, 2018
A new study on racial disparities in police conduct found that differences in offending by suspects, not racism, explains officers’ responses.

In the study “Is There Evidence of Racial Disparity in Police Use of Deadly Force?” professors from Michigan State and Arizona State universities analyzed officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 and 2016. The report’s abstract says: “We benchmark two years of fatal shooting data on 16 crime rate estimates. When adjusting for crime, we find no systematic evidence of anti-black disparities in fatal shootings, fatal shootings of unarmed citizens, or fatal shootings involving misidentification of harmless objects. … Exposure to police given crime rate differences likely accounts for the higher per capita rate of fatal police shootings for blacks, at least when analyzing all shootings. For unarmed shootings or misidentification shootings, data are too uncertain to be conclusive.”

Two recent studies found cops more reluctant to use deadly force against blacks, including one by a black Harvard economist. Professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. concluded: “On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account.”

Read more at: http://www.elderstatement.com/2018/06/larry-elder-waitcops-dont-kill-blacks.html?m=1