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“Knowing that the victim was unarmed is a significant predictor of the likelihood that the victim was black. Other predictors of a police shooting victim being black were a higher proportion of black residents in the Census tract, a greater number of police officers per capita in the city, and a higher overall level of black-white residential segregation in the state."

The Interaction of Race and Place: Predictors of Fatal Police Shootings of Black Victims at the Incident, Census Tract, City, and State Levels, 2013–2018 The Interaction of Race and Place: Predictors of Fatal Police Shootings of Black Victims at the Incident, Census Tract, City, and State Levels, 2013–2018 Table 3 Results of four-level model: likelihood of a black victim in a police shooting by incident-, census tract-, city-, and state-level factors Table 3 Results of four-level model: likelihood of a black victim in a police shooting by incident-, census tract-, city-, and state-level factors
The Interaction of Race and Place: Predictors of Fatal Police Shootings of Black Victims at the Incident, Census Tract, City, and State Levels, 2013–2018
Race and Social Problems
Siegel, Michael / Poulson, Michael / Sangar, Rahul / Jay, Jonathan
in Press, 2021
10.1007/s12552-020-09307-y
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