Looking at data of comparable working conditions over 100 shifts, the researchers found Black officers make 15.16 fewer stops and 1.93 fewer arrests than white officers on average. They also use force 0.10 fewer times than white counterparts, on average.
“Each of these represents a 20 to 30 percent reduction relative to the average stops, arrests, and uses of force that white officers do citywide. So they’re quite substantial,” Rivera says.
Interestingly, the data suggest female officers in Chicago make fewer arrests than their male counterparts, equating to an almost “30 percent reduction relative to the average amount of use of force men do while working,” Rivera says.
If fewer arrests are a good thing, then I've got a way to save 100% of costs and have zero arrests.
The figures thusly show that white cops actually use less force than black officers on a per stop/ arrest basis.
Statistical illiteracy is one of my pet hates, but in the age of fake news and activist journalism it's reached epidemic proportions.
Yep.
Its also highly likely the female and minority hires are relegated to desk duty and easy calls (car accidents and such) and white males get stuck with the domestic violence or high risk situations.
Shit study for braindead normies who are looking for 'facts' to back their claim of 'muh institutional racism'.
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