Screw_Michigan wrote:Yes, that's the ONLY time a white officer has unjustly summarily executed a black, unarmed suspect. Tell me you knew.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf
Using data from Houston, Texas – where we have both officer-involved shootings and a
randomly chosen set of potential interactions with police where lethal force may have been justified –
we find, after controlling for suspect demographics, officer demographics, encounter characteristics,
suspect weapon and year fixed e↵ects, that blacks are 27.4 percent less likely to be shot at by police
relative to non-black, non-Hispanics. This coefficient is measured with considerable error and not
statistically significant. This result is remarkably robust across alternative empirical specifications
and subsets of the data. Partitioning the data in myriad ways, we find no evidence of racial
discrimination in officer-involved shootings. Investigating the intensive margin – the timing of
shootings or how many bullets were discharged in the endeavor – there are no detectable racial
di↵erences.