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NO RACIAL BIAS FOUND IN POLICE SHOOTINGS--OOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/u...e-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html?_r=0


A new study confirms that black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement. They are more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground or pepper-sprayed by a police officer, even after accounting for how, where and when they encounter the police.

But when it comes to the most lethal form of force — police shootings — the study finds no racial bias.

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economists should stick to analyzing the economy

from the abstract:

"We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which police officers are utility maximizers, a fraction of which have a preference for discrimination, who incur relatively high expected costs of officer-involved shootings."

lol
 
The report itself is biased. This is just more confirmation about how racist this society is.

I can't believe you spew that hateful garbage on here. It's not just about facts, man.
 
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We use four sources of data { none ideal { which together paint an empirical portrait of racial
di erences in police use of force. The rst two data sources { NYC's Stop and Frisk program and
the Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS) { provide information on non-lethal force from both the
police and civilian perspectives, respectively. The other two datasets { event summaries of ocer-
involved shootings in ten locations across the US, and data on interactions between civilians and
police in Houston, Texas
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Set 1, self reported by police:
officers are required to document which one of the following seven uses of force was used, if any
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Set 2, better, but questionable since collected by police:
The main advantage of the PPCS data is that, unlike any of our other datasets, it provides the
civilian's interpretation of interactions with police... collected by the police... the survey omits individuals who are currently in
jail... the PPCS only includes the civilian account of the interaction which could be biased
in its own way.
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Set 3, self reported by police:
fi fteen police departments across the country were contacted by the author: Boston,
Camden, NYC, Philadelphia, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, six Florida counties, and
Tacoma, Washington... We received data from all but three of these police departments { NYC, Philadelphia, and Tacoma, Washington... This is likely not a representative set of cities.
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Set 4, self reported by police:
The most comprehensive set of OIS data is from the Houston Police Department (HPD)... narrowed the set of relevant arrests to 16,000 total, between 2000 and 2015. We randomly sampled fi ve percent of these arrest records and manually coded 290 variables per arrest record.
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Strickland33 said:
economists should stick to analyzing the economy

from the abstract:

"We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which police officers are utility maximizers, a fraction of which have a preference for discrimination, who incur relatively high expected costs of officer-involved shootings."

lol
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"data are consistent with a model" makes it seem they compiled a bunch of data and then came up with a model to fit it. Yuck.
 
Economists are really bad at operationalizing the social.
 
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