But this counter analysis admits that detailed statistical analysis is required to decided the bias question.
In a few previous posts (e.g., here and here), prompted by claims of African-American linguist John McWhorter, I examined the various biases and difficulties that plague attempts to see if police kill black suspects at a higher rate than whites. This new article in FiveThirtyEight, though not providing an answer to the problem, shows further complications in the attempt to get answers, so that at present we have no idea if there are racial disparities in who becomes the object of police violence.
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There are three ways to compare racial disparities:
1.) Proportion of racial populations who are victims of police violence. As is well known, about 0.096% of black men and boys will be killed by the cops during their lifetime. That compares to 0.039% among whites: a 2.5-fold difference. But this doesn’t mean that blacks are more likely to…
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