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onlyme1984 t1_jdhwb0g wrote
Like they really needed to analyze data
FartFragrance t1_jdhxv3k wrote
Just curious what race/color are the cops?
Snownel t1_jdic9e6 wrote
The article is really... "loosely" written from a statistical point of view so here's the short version:
>According to that audit, the racial breakdown of people against whom
police used force between 2018 and 2020 was 57% Black, 34% Hispanic and
7% white, with the rest unknown or other communities.
Paterson's 2020 Census shows 24.7%, 62.6%, and 22.9%, respectively. What I'd really like to see instead of the raw audit numbers is an analysis of how racially biased each department is by comparing the two. This can't be just a Paterson problem.
TroyMcClure10 t1_jdigmt4 wrote
The Paterson PD has had something like 10 officers arrested over the last few years.
LemurCat04 t1_jdit4te wrote
BTW, Paterson is one of the agencies that’s in the current On Patrol Live (fka Live PD) line up.
mjdlight t1_jdj45gu wrote
From a 2/2022 article...
"The Paterson Police Department has 29.5% white officers, while the census puts that portion of the population at 8.5%. Meanwhile, 51.1% of the police force are members of various Latino cultures, while the census says Paterson’s Hispanic residents make up 61% of the population."
Firelli00 t1_jdk2nnh wrote
There's white people in Paterson?
Lost-Recording3890 t1_jdk73zy wrote
Majority of white people in Paterson are probably Latin American origin, but identify as white.
love2Vax t1_jdk9gz6 wrote
What is interesting about this question is, that even black cops tend to show bias against black suspects. I'm saying this as a general trend from multiple studies.
AAcdmail t1_jdkja42 wrote
I know a couple youths from there yeah its true they say.
SeparateAddress9070 t1_jdkz9fz wrote
Tyre nichols, as a recent example
falcon0159 t1_jdl4bbi wrote
How do the Middle Eastern people identify on the Census? Maybe they pick white?
SeparateAddress9070 t1_jdhq1cx wrote
Water is wet. Cops are bastards