Download This PaperMaking Inferences About Racial Disparities in Police Violence
1 Pages Posted: 6 Aug 2019 Last revised: 6 Dec 2019
Date Written: August 2, 2019
Abstract
A recent published article, Johnson et al. (2019), examines the role of race in police violence using data on fatal officer-involved shootings. A logical fallacy renders this analysis uninformative for the study of racially biased policing.
Keywords: policing, racial bias, Bayes' Rule
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Knox, Dean and Mummolo, Jonathan, Making Inferences About Racial Disparities in Police Violence (August 2, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3431132 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3431132
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