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We hear a lot about it, but I want to know about the numbers. And where they came from.
We hear a lot about it, but I want to know about the numbers. And where they came from.
We hear a lot about it, but I want to know about the numbers. And where they came from.
The Washington Post keeps a running searchable database on all police involved shootings resulting in deaths.We hear a lot about it, but I want to know about the numbers. And where they came from.
We hear a lot about it, but I want to know about the numbers. And where they came from.
We analyzed 990 police fatal shootings using data compiled by The Washington Post in 2015. After first providing a basic descriptive analysis of these shootings, we then examined the data for evidence of implicit bias by using multivariate regression models that predict two indicators of threat perception failure: (1) whether the civilian was not attacking the officer(s) or other civilians just before being fatally shot and (2) whether the civilian was unarmed when fatally shot. The results indicated civilians from “other” minority groups were significantly more likely than Whites to have not been attacking the officer(s) or other civilians and that Black civilians were more than twice as likely as White civilians to have been unarmed.
We hear a lot about it, but I want to know about the numbers. And where they came from.