[OC] Fatal Police Shootings in the US: Racial disparities. In absence of racial differences, the probability of fatal police encounters would be the same across racial groups. It is not. Black/African Americans are 4.5 times more likely to have a fatal encounter with the police than Asian Americans.Submitted by HitchHux t3_11dj069 in dataisbeautiful
LSeww t1_ja9lfws wrote
Reply to comment by JPAnalyst in [OC] Fatal Police Shootings in the US: Racial disparities. In absence of racial differences, the probability of fatal police encounters would be the same across racial groups. It is not. Black/African Americans are 4.5 times more likely to have a fatal encounter with the police than Asian Americans. by HitchHux
There are different kinds of crimes, some of them can't be over-policed, like a murder.
Sweaty-Willingness27 t1_jaakkje wrote
Any situation can be over-policed.
If you detained every single person in America and strip-searched them based on a single murder, I think most people would say that's over-policing.
The problem is that many people are defensive based on the data provided, and assume the OP's intent is to show that Black and Native Americans are profiled. I think it's a safe assumption, but speaking in generalities in the other direction isn't going to be of any benefit.
The study that's linked here is very different, in my mind. It shows a different problem (and one that I think is clearer) where there is a disparity with little prescient knowledge beyond race. The fatal shootings probably have a lot of variables (and differences in lead-up and situation that caused the shooting) that makes them less useful to compare all together as they are here.
LSeww t1_jac0lbv wrote
> If you detained every single person in America and strip-searched them based on a single murder, I think most people would say that's over-policing.
That won’t increase the number of observed murders.
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