Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in the United States

Re:Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in t... by naasking on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:24PM (#12058008)

Except if you dig deeper into those stats, you'll see that something like 5% of the same cops account for over 40% of "resisting arrest" charges, and 15% account for ~75% of those cases [1]. So most of it seems to come down to the police and how they approach making arrests.

[1] http://project.wnyc.org/resisting/

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Re:Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in t... by powertower on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:48PM (#12058163)

Does that take into account the type of police officer making the arrest (patrol, traffic, detective, narcotics, transit, desk/administrative, etc) and also the deployment and arrest location?

If the same cops patrol the same demographic and the same high crime areas it would reason that the same cops (and same type of specific category) will be making the majority of the arrests. Which will skew the mentioned statistic to them.

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Re:Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in t... by naasking on Saturday July 09, 2016 @09:58AM (#12061292)

Now you're reaching. Read the accompanying story for more information. This is a widely recognizing problem.

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