Studies

Research on racial bias in policing

Finds citizens' compliance with specific police requests is highest when the officer is white and the citizen is black and lowest when the officer is black and the citizen is white.

“Whites tend to stereotype black individuals and neighborhoods as crime-prone … [and] tend to equate black neighborhoods with poverty and high crime rates and white neighborhoods with affluence and low crime rate without considering low-crime, affluent black communities."

“An analysis … found that 32% of black people killed by police in 2015 were unarmed, as were 25% of Hispanic and Latino people, compared with 15% of white people killed… The figures illustrate how disproportionately black Americans … are killed by police."

“OISs [Officer Involved Shootings] preceded by officer-initiated contacts are more likely to involve unarmed suspects than… e.g., call for service… Black OIS suspects are more likely to [be] stopped on the officer’s initiation than non-black OIS suspects."

“The minority threat hypothesis states that the greater the percent minority in a city, the greater the employment of coercive control strategies by the police. That hypothesis is clearly supported in this study.” & “We included control variables [for] violent crime rate."

Based on CDC data, “black people suffered over five times as many nonfatal injuries per capita from law enforcement as white people did cumulatively over the years 2001-2012."

More segregated cities see a much higher disparity in fatal police shootings, controlling for crime rates, income, city demographics, and other factors. A 1 s.d. increase in racial segregation increased “the ratio of Black to White fatal police shooting rates… by 44.4%"

Another thread dissecting that horribly hackish WSJ editorial and that irresponsibly reported “Harvard study."