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jrm19941994 t1_iwujujk wrote

Both the demographics in blue commit violent crimes at significantly higher rates than the red. What you want is likelihood of being shot per police encounter. This will give more insight into the level of bias at play, which there almost certainly is, but this data does nothing to confirm or deny claims of bias in policing.

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hiphippo65 t1_iwum5us wrote

Even then that’s not a great metric. It’s only a good for identifying bias if we assume all interactions are the same. One where you stop someone for carrying a gun down the street va a traffic stop are going to be very different regardless of race. African Americans tend to live in more dangerous areas, so you’d expect encounters to lead to more incidents from that alone.

Ironically, in a world where police are told to be more sensitive to race, and to stop minorities less often, you’d expect shootings per encounter to go up, since less encounters are for smaller infractions.

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doomsl t1_iww8pig wrote

This is false because you assume that for small infractions there are less shootings which is not entirely true.

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Purplekeyboard t1_iwyk88t wrote

> Both the demographics in blue commit violent crimes at significantly higher rates than the red.

This is forbidden knowledge, you must unknow this immediately.

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