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Well, this settles it his way of thinking > data.Other studies have concluded similar findings. You can split hairs and say “Black people are more likely to be engaged in the commission of s crime, and therefore more likely to interact with police thereby increasing their chances of being shot.”
However, we know how police patrol. They pull over and engage black people more often. And there is also a UC Davis study that found that there was no correlation between the crime rates in a geographic area and number of police shootings in that same area.
So, there is little doubt in my mind that the disparity here is caused by a lot of implicit bias (see the cop who emptied his clip into his own vehicle due to an acorn falling on it), and some amount of explicit bias. In other words, yes racism is the causal factor, whether it is intentional or unintentional.
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