A more recent study was done by a young black academic at Harvard. He studied the data himself and he studied many of the previous studies done before him. He found also that in the category of use of fatal force encounters between police and civilians (in that category alone) there was not a racial disparity in those encounters. He wrote about his study in a WSJ editorial.
“What the Data Say About Police
There are racial differences in use of nonlethal force, but not in officer-involved shootings.”
[By Roland G. Fryer Jr.
WSJ June 22, 2020 1:12 pm ET]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-data-say-about-police-11592845959
However, while Conservatives must appreciate Mr Fryer’s honesty in his study in the area of police shootings, Conservatives must also accept that Fryer’s study and the data do not exonerate all local police for the appearance of racial disparities in lower level police-civilian interactions. Yes, BLM’s claims about police shootings of blacks do not match the data, but below that level there are problems that need to be addressed.
These two statements are predicated on the concept of "guilty until proven innocent". There may be problems in the use of less-lethal force, but the study does not appear to have any relation to the crimes being investigated, nor the statistical analysis of who is committing crimes, including which crimes. Disproportionate interaction numbers is not necessarily caused by Police actions. It can also easily be caused by the actions of those who are disproportionately interacting with police.