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Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:23PM (#16284296)
> there is no evidence that this happens disproportionately on a racial basis.

There's actually considerable evidence that adverse interactions with law enforcement of all kinds (and not just LE murder) are not evenly distributed by race.

Whether that is a result of deliberate LE racism vs. other factors which contribute to such encounters being distributed disproportionately by race has more mixed evidence.

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Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by weberc2 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:26PM (#16284325)
Nevertheless, all of the data on LE murder agree that there is no racial disparity in victimhood. We can and should collect better data, but "police disproportionately murder blacks" is not supported by the evidence.
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Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by eksabajt on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:58PM (#16286314)
Do you have a citation for the claim that there is no racial disparity? Here's a ProPublica report that shows a staggering disparity: "Deadly Force in Black and White"(https://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-in-black-and...)
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Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by weberc2 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:49PM (#16286708)
I did a deep dive into the WashPo 2015 and 2016 datasets which are more both more recent and complete than the FBI datasource used by propublica. Further, you can actually inspect in detail the circumstances in which the shooting took place, including whether or not the deceased were armed.
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