Bij de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep haalde onderstaande studie uit 2019 het nieuws niet. Een andere wel. Zo blijft het ongenuanceerde beeld van een über racistische Amerikaanse politie in stand. Waar je met de huidige rellen in de VS idioot* op los kunt gaan.
Daarom voor de NPO, en al helemaal voor *Hidde Boersma en *Thijs Kleinpaste:
New Study Says White Police Officers Are Not More Likely To Shoot Minority Suspects
When you look at the number of police shootings in relation to the population, you find that people of color are shot and killed more often than white people. The reason for that disparity has been intensely debated for years, especially since an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo. almost five years ago.
There has been one recurring theory, that white cops are more likely to shoot black people because of racial bias. Now a new study is challenging that conclusion. NPR’s Martin Kaste has more.
De studie (2019) werd gepubliceerd in PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Nadien kreeg het aanvullingen, deels vanwege de kritieken erop.
Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings
Significance
There is widespread concern about racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings and that these disparities reflect discrimination by White officers. Existing databases of fatal shootings lack information about officers, and past analytic approaches have made it difficult to assess the contributions of factors like crime. We create a comprehensive database of officers involved in fatal shootings during 2015 and predict victim race from civilian, officer, and county characteristics. We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers. Instead, race-specific crime strongly predicts civilian race. This suggests that increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings.
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
De studie kwam onder vuur te liggen bij Sciencemag.
Study that claims white police no more likely to shoot minorities draws fire
Ook relevant, in Nature.
What the data say about police shootings
How do racial biases play into deadly encounters with the police? Researchers wrestle with incomplete data to reach answers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02601-9
Dat zaken sowieso complexer liggen dan de gesimplificeerde eendimensionale zwart-wit (letterlijk) voorstelling van zaken die regelmatig passeren in de media wordt in onderstaand artikel duidelijk. Waarin de eerdere in PNAS gepubliceerde studie eveneens aan bod komt.
What New Research Says About Race and Police Shootings
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.
Aanvullend >
Deaths Due to Use of Lethal Force by Law Enforcement
Findings From the National Violent Death Reporting System, 17 U.S. States, 2009–2012
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
