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whatthehey

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5. I would have guessed higher
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 01:20 PM
Jul 2016

There's all kinds of ancillary data needed to really parse this but I wonder if anybody's seen decent data on police contact/interactions by race. Since we can safely assume that profiling official or unofficial exists, and since for both valid and invalid reasons cops spend more of their time in poorer neighborhoods where minority residence is higher than elsewhere, I think I'm safe in the inference that blacks make up more than their demographic 13% of police "touches", but I can't offhand find if it's more or less than the 24.2% of fatalities. My musing then is whether the cops kill black folk they come into contact with more than others, or simply stop/pull over them more than others and kill people at a reasonably constant rate. Neither is exculpatory, but it would help direct any remedial efforts to the right root cause. If they are interested in remedial efforts that is.

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