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Originally Posted by oeb11
harvard is only a Marxist factory now.
Its day as a premier educational institution are long gone.
Graduate and medical schools are very leery of harvard grads these days.
all they know is marxiswm.
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Actually, the Harvard study doesn’t say police are racist. Their conclusion:
Conclusion
The issue of police violence and its racial incidence has become one of the most divisive topics in American discourse. Emotions run the gamut from outrage to indi↵erence. Yet, very little data exists to understand whether racial disparities in police use of force exist or might be explained by situational factors inherent in the complexity of police-civilian interactions. Beyond the lack of data, the analysis of police behavior is fraught with diculty including, but not limited to, the reliability of the data that does exist and the fact that one cannot randomly assign race.
With these caveats in mind, this paper takes first steps into the treacherous terrain of under- standing the nature and extent of racial di↵erences in police use of force and the probability of police interaction. On non-lethal uses of force, there are racial di↵erences – sometimes quite large – in police use of force, even after accounting for a large set of controls designed to account for important contextual and behavioral factors at the time of the police-civilian interaction. Interest- ingly, as use of force increases from putting hands on a civilian to striking them with a baton, the overall probability of such an incident occurring decreases dramatically but the racial di↵erence remains roughly constant. Even when ocers report civilians have been compliant and no arrest was made, blacks are 21.2 percent more likely to endure some form of force in an interaction. Yet, on the most extreme use of force – ocer-involved shootings – we are unable to detect any racial di↵erences in either the raw data or when accounting for controls.
We argue that these facts are most consistent with a model of taste-based discrimination in which police ocers face discretely higher costs for ocer-involved shootings relative to non-lethal uses of force. This model is consistent with racial di↵erences in the average returns to compliant behaviors, the results of our tests of discrimination based on Knowles, Persico, and Todd (2001) and Anwar and Fang (2006), and the fact that the odds-ratio is large and significant across all intensities of force – even after accounting for a rich set of controls. In the end, however, without randomly assigning race, we have no definitive proof of discrimination. Our results are also consistent with mismeasured contextual factors.
As police departments across America consider models of community policing such as the Boston Ten Point Coalition, body worn cameras, or training designed to purge ocers of implicit bias, our results point to another simple policy experiment: increase t.
Here’s the important sentence:
however, without randomly assigning race, we have no definitive proof of discrimination
