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“As [a state’s] liberal population increased 1% point, the likelihood of Black police killings decreased at a rate of 3.700% (0.963)… as the size of the Black population increases across states, there is a subsequent decrease in police shootings at a rate of 16.500%."

Race and Police Killings: Examining the Links Between Racial Threat and Police Shootings of Black Americans

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

Gray, Andrew C. / Parker, Karen F.

Vol. 18 Issue 4, pp. 315–340, 2020

10.1080/15377938.2020.1774952

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