Study Finds No Racial Bias in Police Shootings
 

Although this study found there was some racial bias when it came to police using force to arrest a suspect, the study found there was no racial bias when it actually came to police shooting suspects. So according to this study, the whole narrative we get from the media, Obama, and from Black Lives Matter that the police are disproportionately shooting black people, is false.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/up...shootings.html

I have seen past studies that showed the same. that in all police work except shootings, there is definite bias. it's interesting.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...ice-shootings/

Charlie Pierce for those that prefer to comprehend the findings in their totality.

I wonder if white citizens get shot more because they haven't been tased, pepper sprayed, etc already?
have also found it interesting that black folks get searched a LOT more than white people, but they actually find contraband far more often on white people. just seems counterintuitive to keep keying on black people when that fact is there. even in ny recently, when they were doing stop and frisk, they had those stats.
from cradle to grave, a portion of our citizens are dealing with systemic racism.

and I still am amazed that police departments don't have to report shootings. and yeah, I have wondered when seeing these various studies, how accurate they can be when one doesn't have to report?
and I also wonder, what the narrative would have been with some of these shootings, if a witness with a phone wasn't there to record-like in Charleston?
lack of data collection and reporting also hinders the background check system, with people cleared to purchase a gun, when they should not have been.

we need real justice reform in this country...along with a lot of other things.

the author is right, we should all be marching. our country has lower crime than in decades, but you can't tell by looking at our law enforcement...or swat statistics.

I love when Harvard professors are "surprised."