Overall-Dark-4180 t1_iu9lnio wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:00 PM

Reply to comment by doctorwhy88 in UK police fail to meet 'legal and ethical standards' in use of facial recognition by Gari_305

The police are not shooting people en masse. The data does not back that up. The studies show that police are more likely to tazer or handcuff black suspects, but are NOT more likely to shoot black suspects during any given encounter.

doctorwhy88 t1_iu9nj1j wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:14 PM

A study posted in this thread says otherwise. Post your studies and I’ll consider it.

Overall-Dark-4180 t1_iu9ztgu wrote on October 29, 2022 at 6:40 PM

Thank you for the reasonable response.

"On balance, these data and studies rebut the most extreme accusations of racial bias, in which police officers are thought to be killing nonthreatening black men with astounding frequency. But research continues as to whether there is some detectable level of bias in the nationwide data,..."

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/verbruggen-fatal-police-shootings