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“Across all crime benchmarks in all years, there is substantial evidence of anti-Black racial disparities in the killing of unarmed noncriminals by police. Here, we fail to recover the principle findings of Cesario et al. (2019)."
New paper out today, looking critically at how bench-marking of police shootings on crime rates has been done, and the implications this has for evidence about racial disparity in use of force against unarmed people.https://t.co/cwGGAvv0ut
— Cody Ross (@mindismoving) June 19, 2020
Racial Disparities in Police Use of Deadly Force Against Unarmed Individuals Persist After Appropriately Benchmarking Shooting Data on Violent Crime Rates
Social Psychological and Personality Science
in Press,
2020
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