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Stamets to Funny: Home of the [email protected] • 1 year ago

The final Police Officers Training Exam

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The final Police Officers Training Exam

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Stamets to Funny: Home of the [email protected] • 1 year ago
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    Edit apparently I’m not lazy today.

    Here is a Harvard study: https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force?page=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1

    ‘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.’

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      Well… I’m not gonna lie. I too am lazy and had hopped that you could point me to the controversial data that support your comment.

      I did a quick search though and the only convdincing result that I could find is, that its hard to tell

      https://www.science.org/content/article/study-claims-white-police-no-more-likely-shoot-minorities-draws-fire

      So if don’t mind, can you please oblige me, where did you find the convincing proof that there is no racial bias in police brutality?

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        Already updated it with a link. For bonus points I was sceptical of his data and methods but both myself and a professor I know checked and it’s solid work.

        Doesn’t stop people with a race related hate message from trying to discredit it but science don’t care 🤷

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      Intersting. This was posted 4 years later by Harvard, stating :

      Black Americans are 3.23 times more likely than white Americans to be killed by police

      Black Chicagoans, for example, were found to be over 650% more likely to be killed by police than white Chicagoans.

      https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/blacks-whites-police-deaths-disparity/

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        Neither of those statements indicate a racial disparity in police response by themselves.

        If you don’t understand why…perhaps read the study I posted and see how it’s done.

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          I found this article commenting on the paper you linked

          Paper finding no racial bias in shootings by police criticized

          https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/07/21/paper-finding-no-racial-bias-shootings-police-criticized/87301632/

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            Interesting though his main criticism of the paper is a bit ah…subjective (below). Seems more like he’s manipulating data for an outcome tbh.

            I had a look at the author and he seems to have based his career on race relations which makes me worried about his impartiality too.

            ‘The CPE report acknowledges three problems with measuring police force: measuring “excessive” force against all force, measuring differences in police use of force, and measuring force incidents as unchanging rather than constantly changing. Goff said Fryer neither acknowledges these concepts nor deals with them as problems.’

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