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Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings
2019
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Despite extensive attention to racial disparities in police shootings, two problems have hindered progress on this issue. First, databases of fatal officer-involved shootings (FOIS) lack details about officers, making it difficult to test whether racial disparities vary by officer characteristics. Second, there are conflicting views on which benchmark should be used to determine racial disparities when the outcome is the rate at which members from racial groups are fatally shot. We address
doi:10.1073/pnas.1903856116
pmid:31332014
pmcid:PMC6689929
fatcat:65japl2smngcnd4lhhqe5wmhja