On 18/12/2020 12:38, GB wrote:
On 18/12/2020 12:05, Tim Streater wrote:
Highlighting actual experiences is a good way to go.
"For young men of color, police use of force is among the leading causes
of death."
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
In fact, that article highlights that men are roughly 30 times more
likely to be killed by the police than women. So, a case could be made
for "Male lives matter".
The stats show that black people are roughly 2.5 times more likely to be
killed by the police than white people.
Such stats have been criticised for not taking account of that the risk
of being killed depends on contact with police; that the probability of
contact with police is increased by criminality; and that criminality is
not uniform across racial groups (for reasons which may of course
include others forms of discrimination - e.g. in education or
employment, but not by police). Summed up in
"Racial disparities in the killing of armed suspects by police are
proportional to the relative rates of violent criminality."
OTOH others argue that such analysis is also flawed.
I don't know if there's a consensus. I do know the methodology is
orders of magnitude beyond me.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful...48550620916071
An example of the discussion the
"Writing almost a decade ago about policing, Goff and Kahn (2012) lament
that it would be €śshocking to think that there remained uncertainty
about how to tell whether or not racial bias troubled one of our most
important institutions€ť (pp. 177€“178). They went on to address both the
dearth of nationally representative data on police use-of-force and the
lack of methodological paradigms for causal inference about the drivers
of racial disparities in extant data. Progress is being made to address
the data concerns (Garner et al., 2018; Goff et al., 2016). However,
important issues concerning statistical methodology remain largely
unaddressed."
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Robin
reply-to address is (intended to be) valid