Shouldn’t the analysis also take account of the number of police encounters with the population in question? Of course, some police encounters with people of color are manufactured through selective enforcement of broken-taillight and dangling-deodorant rules and other pretexts. But many, presumably, are not.
To determine if race was a bias in a shooting we would have to know the number of interactions with police not the general population. Since every interaction with police is not a likely number we can obtain as police are not required to record every interaction we can use Police Arrests as a proxy for interactions. When you use actual arrests demographics and compare them to shootings you find that black people are not in fact shot at a higher rate. This is an important step in inference because the solution to the problems is inherently different. This means that the number of stops and/or arrests are at a higher frequency which leads to higher shot rates which could be from implicit bias of the officers, systemic issues such as a prevalence to socioeconomic factors that are correlated with higher crime, or a combination of the two. If it is merely a systemic issue teaching cops to stop being racist doesn't solve the problem. If it is a police are bias/racist issue solving systemic issues won't solve the problem.
Am sorry about Floyd and Daunte...but is it time that African American leaders started teaching thier children not to resist arrest. Just concentrating on the police alone wont solve the problem..ie Daunte had managed to escape what was the next step.
I would love to see a community outreach program from law enforcement that teaches kids why police do what they do and what best practices are when they are faced with a police encounter. I certainly would have benefited from this in school.
In most of these shot-by-cop incidents I have seen, the citizen resisted or tried to flee. What are the facts... What percent of blacks vs whites who were shot either resisted arrest or tried to run?
Shouldn’t the analysis also take account of the number of police encounters with the population in question? Of course, some police encounters with people of color are manufactured through selective enforcement of broken-taillight and dangling-deodorant rules and other pretexts. But many, presumably, are not.
To determine if race was a bias in a shooting we would have to know the number of interactions with police not the general population. Since every interaction with police is not a likely number we can obtain as police are not required to record every interaction we can use Police Arrests as a proxy for interactions. When you use actual arrests demographics and compare them to shootings you find that black people are not in fact shot at a higher rate. This is an important step in inference because the solution to the problems is inherently different. This means that the number of stops and/or arrests are at a higher frequency which leads to higher shot rates which could be from implicit bias of the officers, systemic issues such as a prevalence to socioeconomic factors that are correlated with higher crime, or a combination of the two. If it is merely a systemic issue teaching cops to stop being racist doesn't solve the problem. If it is a police are bias/racist issue solving systemic issues won't solve the problem.
This is a good write-up. I spent about 10 years training and working with LEO and Emergency Reponse agencies at the local, state, and federal levels and I can vouch that the mentality has become more militant within these communities, predominately in LEO and to an extent Fire and EMS. Do a quick search for "sheepdog" and "police" and it will be plain as day. I originally discussed the danger of such involving group identity in this article but it never made the final edit due to "offending the reader base" also gave some talks some time ago. https://www.firefighternation.com/leadership/hard-truths-about-and-possible-solutions-to-the-failure-of-leadership-and-training-of-firefighters-and-the-subsequent-volunteer-crisis-in-the-united-states/ I recently released an article on medium, not about this particular thing but regarding minimum wage and the attack on social mobility. I am still building out the dataset, but have a good bit already compiled. Hit me up if you want to use the original data. It may be of some use to you. https://rneal-cook.medium.com/social-mobility-the-making-or-breaking-of-a-society-and-how-it-reflects-on-current-social-issues-89c4e0ea076a
Am sorry about Floyd and Daunte...but is it time that African American leaders started teaching thier children not to resist arrest. Just concentrating on the police alone wont solve the problem..ie Daunte had managed to escape what was the next step.
“… who now claims she didn’t know she had drawn her gun rather than her taser, firing on him as he was trying to escape.”
Potter immediately reacted to the gunshot a split second after she pulled the trigger so what kind of word trickery is the author pulling here?
I would love to see a community outreach program from law enforcement that teaches kids why police do what they do and what best practices are when they are faced with a police encounter. I certainly would have benefited from this in school.
In most of these shot-by-cop incidents I have seen, the citizen resisted or tried to flee. What are the facts... What percent of blacks vs whites who were shot either resisted arrest or tried to run?