Police Do Kill More White People, but There’s More to the Story
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CLAIM: CBS News says “Black Americans are more likely to die at the hands of law enforcement than White people.”
VERDICT: Unclear. One study suggests that there is no racial bias in police shootings. And there is more to the story.
But, the analysis does not end there, as Scott Adams observed last month (describing an analytical “funnel” on the issue). The problem might be that black Americans encounter police more often.
And last month, he wrote in the Wall Street Journal that even when black and Latino suspects did not resist arrest — a common feature in many controversial cases — “Black civilians who were recorded as compliant by police were 21% more likely to suffer police aggression than compliant whites”.
Fryer also updated his 2016 research to note that there appeared to be no racial bias in police shootings.
That is good news, but it does not resolve the question of racial bias in law enforcement.
While more white people are shot, that may simply be because there are more white Americans.
And while a disproportionate number of black people are shot, that may be because they encounter police more often.
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