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‘The most surprising result of my career’: A Harvard economist found no evidence of racial bias in police shootings

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A new study yielded some unexpected results about racial bias in police shootings.

While black people are more likely than white people to be touched, handcuffed, thrown against a wall, pushed to the ground, and have weapons pointed at them by the police, the study found no evidence of racial bias in situations where police fire their guns at civilians.

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“It is the most surprising result of my career, ” Roland G. Freyer Jr., the Harvard economist who authored the study, told The New York Times.

 

 

Freyer and a group of students spent over 3, 000 hours sifting through police data from 10 major police departments in three states: Texas, Florida, and California.

They examined 1, 332 shootings between 2000 and 2015…

 

Read the full story at Business Insider, by Caroline Simon

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