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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
I guess you will have to google the media accounts of the survey or actually speed read the report to know.
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that's what "abstract" is for... I doubt that by briefly reading and analyzing the whole study I would be able to reach better conclusions than the author, the person who is an expert in the field, and who has examined this issue for months/years... (plus I have better things to do than analyze some study about racism in detail)
but I took a quick look, and their definition of "use of force" is pretty mild, touching a suspect in any way means "use of force"... and that happens only 4% of the time for minorities... so white suspects get touched ~3% of the time, minorities ~4% of the time... it's 50% increase indeed, but when put in 3% / 4% perspective it doesn't sound as bad?