07-20-2016, 06:04 PM
(07-19-2016, 12:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Not valid for people who actually read the study instead of just making racists assumptions.
Did you mean to say "read and understood" the study?
The differences are small in absolute terms, but statistically significant...although expressed as a % it's much more compelling (i.e. .02 vs. .03 is 50%).
But the bulk of the differences is "hands", related to being frisked, and cuffed. We know police profile, and we know young black males are arrested for more crimes. But as the basis for "more non-lethal uses of force", I wouldn't call that a "smoking gun". Look at the "Civilian Behavior" table - very little is significant, but across the board blacks are slighlty higher and taken as a whole might be statistically less cooperative, which could explain marginal differences below.
Check out the NY stop & frisk data. All but one (handcuffs) is statistically significant that the rates aren't equal, but aside from hands & frisked the numbers are equal to two decimals. So when they say "20% more likely", they really mean 5.0% vs. 6.0%.
Going to the PPCS data (civilian reported), the results aren't terribly different. One interesting stat of note - whites are 33% (self reported) more likely to be injured. But that result is not statistically significant. So police use excessive force disproportionately on blacks, but there's no increase of self-reported injuries? And blacks PERCEIVE higher use of excessive force, but don't report more injuries?
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