White Privilege?

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(07-12-2018, 05:16 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Here's the study I was thinking of:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399

It says blacks were NOT more likely to be shot by police, though they were more likely to be physically assaulted (my term not the studies) by police.

I was doing some research on the study and, as of 2016, it was considered a "working paper" and had not yet been peer reviewed. Not sure if that has changed. It did receive some immediately criticism of how it used its data, which Fryer admits that none of the data sources were "ideal". 

It also didn't address the fact that black people were more likely to be stopped and just addressed what happens once people are stopped. This of course would skew the data away from the conclusions others have made about black people being more likely to get shot. 

But it is data that should be looked at in addition to some of the other studies referenced in this article that drew the opposite conclusion.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/07/21/paper-finding-no-racial-bias-shootings-police-criticized/87301632/


This is the Ross study:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141854