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Posted bycolbyklausin/amalanetwork-Feb 04 at 2:44 PM

Does Having More Black Officers Reduce Police Violence?

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Does Having More Black Officers Reduce Police Violence?

The unrest in Ferguson, MO, following the death of Michael Brown in summer 2015 drew renewed scrutiny to police violence and revealed just how little the public knew about its pervasiveness. At first, there were widespread calls to address what officers looked like since Brown was African-American and the officer who shot him is white.

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  • zhemaoFeb 04 at 6:08 PM

    Well that's certainly counter-intuitive. I would have thought that recruiting more black officers would have a neutral or slightly positive effect. I wonder how the study was done. If it was simply a correlational study looking at different police precincts, the findings could be misleading. You would expect that heavily minority neighborhoods, in which tensions are higher and police shootings more common, would have a higher proportion of black officers.

Amala Network

Amala Network

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