蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
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Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings
蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
(pp. 228–33)
Abstract
Police use of force, particularly lethal force, is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive datasets on officer-involved-shootings (OIS). I compare the data and methods of three investigative journalism articles and two publications in the social sciences on a set of five rubrics and conclude that the stark differences between their findings are due to differences in what qualifies for a valid research design and not underlying differences in the datasets.Citation
Fryer, Roland G Jr. 2018. "Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings." 蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings 108: 228–33. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20181004Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law