Black, Hispanic and female police use force less often than white male officers
Black, Hispanic and female police use force less often than white male officers
- February 11, 2021
- Bocar Ba, economics, Science News, Feb. 11, 2021
Diversifying law enforcement is one of the oldest, most frequently proposed police
reforms, Bocar Ba, an economist at the University of California, Irvine, said …. The
problem has been a lack of available data …. Researchers need detailed enough information
on officers’ patrol assignments to compare officers of different races and genders
working under similar circumstances. “Until now, it has been extremely difficult to
make this sort of apples-to-apples comparison, because police agencies have not released
the necessary data,” Ba said.
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