Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Boston University Study: Police-Shooting Racial Disparities Reflect Segregation

Data from the Mapping Police Violence Project to calculate the ratio of Black and White victims of police shootings in 69 of the largest American cities between 2013 and 2017. They found that, across these cities, a Black person was 3.5 times more likely to be fatally shot by police than a White person. However, this ratio ranged widely: A Black person was no more likely than a White person to be fatally shot by police in Mesa, Arizona . . .
The  racial composition of a police force had no impact.
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