Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings

Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences ^ | August 6, 2019 | David J. Johnson, Trevor Tress, Nicole Burkel, Carley Taylor, and Joseph Cesario

[Renkluaf]

There is widespread concern about racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings and that these disparities reflect discrimination by White officers. Existing databases of fatal shootings lack information about officers, and past analytic approaches have made it difficult to assess the contributions of factors like crime. We create a comprehensive database of officers involved in fatal shootings during 2015 and predict victim race from civilian, officer, and county characteristics. We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers. Instead, race-specific crime strongly predicts civilian race. This suggests that increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings.

[Renkluaf]

Hmmm! Apparently the facts don't fit someone's truth.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[BitWielder1]

Hasn't the myth of "racial disparity in police shootings" been refuted many times over?

[NativeSon]

Just like every other dem//leftist “truth”, the racial disparity myth will remain. Democrats will ignore all evidence to the contrary without providing proof.

If we’re lucky, they’ll pull out a Readers Digest article from 1997 and point to reader’s comment to support their position.