Chicago's Black and Hispanic police use force less than white officers – study
Chicago's Black and Hispanic police use force less than white officers – study
- February 11, 2021
- Bocar Ba, economics, The Guardian, Feb. 11, 2021
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“If people come and argue that same-race policing is the way to improve police-civilian
interaction – like what we’re finding with Black officers and Black civilian[s] –
we won’t find the same result for, like, Hispanic officers,” said Bocar A Ba, an assistant
professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine, and another collaborator
on the research.
For the full story, please visit https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/11/chicago-black-hispanic-police-officers-force-arrests-study.
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