“Police work attracts people who endorse color-blind racial beliefs” & “Color-blind racial beliefs are considered a contemporary form of racism … people who endorse these beliefs can use them to minimize the racial biases present in the criminal justice system."
“Through our study findings, we can paint a clear picture of the declines in dangerousness [of policing]… We can also provide an important historical context for the… perceived ‘war on cops’ in recent years, and our…findings reveal no evidence to support those claims."
“Officers…with a greater proportion of colleagues previously named in use of force complaints were more likely to be named in subsequent… complaints.” & “Must move beyond a focus on individual officers… [toward] deviant police networks."
“Police militarization is linked disproportionately to disadvantaged racial/ethnic groups. An examination of thousands of SWAT deployments found that … the disparity was even greater in deployments conducted for the purpose of serving a drug-related search warrant."
“The homicide of McDonald was also notable for what it revealed in the internal workings of the Chicago Police Department—a culture of silence that protects, rather than roots out, ‘bad apples.'"
“Policing practices may have directly increased… the risk that individuals become infected with COVID-19… forced crowding—on streets, in police cars, on buses, and in jails—and the use of ‘riot control agents’ … cornering protesters in tight spaces … (‘kettling’)…"
“We need not sit around and wait for proof of racial discrimination per se to draw conclusions about how police power is racialized. The fact that police–civilian encounters can be routinely and predictably disproportionate, racially, should be noteworthy, end of story."
“The fact that many of the officers … minimize the problem of race-based disparities, place blame on external actors, including members of the media and the interested public, or deny it outright, suggests an unwillingness to recognize the legitimacy of the … problem."
“From a statistical point of view, focusing on one racial group more than another consequently serves as a self-fulfilling prophecy, skewing the crime stats towards that particular racial group, regardless of the ‘true’ crime rate associate with that group."