By Steve Sailer
06/21/2018
From Social Psychology and Personality Science:
Joseph Cesario, David Johnson, William Terrill
Published June 13, 2018
Abstract
Is there evidence of a Black–White disparity in death by police gunfire in the United States? This is commonly answered by comparing the odds of being fatally shot for Blacks and Whites, with odds benchmarked against each group’s population proportion. However, adjusting for population values has questionable assumptions given the context of deadly force decisions. We benchmark 2 years of fatal shooting data on 16 crime rate estimates. When adjusting for crime, we find no systematic evidence of anti-Black disparities in fatal shootings, fatal shootings of unarmed citizens, or fatal shootings involving misidentification of harmless objects. Multiverse analyses showed only one significant anti-Black disparity of 144 possible tests. Exposure to police given crime rate differences likely accounts for the higher per capita rate of fatal police shootings for Blacks, at least when analyzing all shootings. For unarmed shootings or misidentification shootings, data are too uncertain to be conclusive.
So the media’s Ferguson Obsession was, basically, Fake News.
Meanwhile the much derided Ferguson Effect: the theory that the media’s Ferguson Obsession has gotten thousands more homicide victims killed was real.
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