Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings

Roland G. Fryer

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, vol. 108, 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.

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Date: 2018
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20181004
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