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Study Links Police Bodycams to Increase in Shooting Deaths

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Syne Offline
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/08/12/stud...ng-deaths/

"Surprisingly, we found that the use of wearable video cameras is associated with a 3.64% increase in shooting-deaths of civilians by the police. We explain that video recordings collected during a violent encounter with a civilian can be used in favor of a police officer as evidence that justifies the shooting. Aware of this evidence, the officer may become less reluctant to engage in the use of deadly force…. This contradicts the expectation of many law enforcement officials and policymakers that video cameras would reduce incidents of use of deadly force."
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Syne Offline
This study found race matters in police shootings, but the results may surprise you
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true...prise-you/

"But there has also been a contrary narrative, that officers are hesitant to fire at black suspects, starting with a 1977 analysis of reports from major metropolitan departments which found officers fired more shots at white suspects than at black suspects, possibly because of “public sentiment concerning treatment of blacks.” And in 2004, David Klinger at the University of Missouri-St. Louis interviewed more than 100 officers and found “evidence of increased wariness about using deadly force against black suspects for fear of how it would be perceived and the associated consequences.”
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This is particularly notable because “our police participants demonstrated strong implicit bias associating black suspects with weapons,” James wrote. Still, the officers were “more hesitant and more careful in their decisions to shoot black suspects.” In effect, the officers “displayed a counter bias, or ‘reverse racism’ effect,” James said. “These findings call into question the validity of the widespread assumption that implicit racial bias is the cause of the disproportionate number of racial minorities in officer-involved shootings.”

But why? James’ team did not interview the Spokane officers. But she did not think that a 0.23 second delay in firing enabled the officers to consciously decide based on race. She considered whether the fact the officers knew they were being observed played into their actions, but she said the police did not know that race was a factor in the project. More likely, James concluded, was the reverse racism “rooted in people’s concerns about the social and legal consequences of shooting a member of a historically oppressed racial group…paired with the awareness of media backlash that follows an officer shooting a minority suspect.”"


So it seems that body cams actually work to remove the concerns that led to fewer minority killings by cops. On the one hand, we now have true racial equality in police use of deadly force, and on the other, minorities no longer have the protection of concerns over backlash. That is what happens when false narratives are used to inform policy. But no doubt the left will twist the increased incidents of use of deadly force against minorities as evidence it's always been there...or getting worse. When the only reason it may actually be getting worse is that cops have been targeted because of this false narrative.
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C C Offline
I noticed someone mentioning this on a usenet group earlier in the week (or maybe it was last week). The person got attacked as making it all up, and for whatever peculiar reason they still didn't offer a link to a source for it, even after getting gang-trounced.

EDIT: Er, I mean a "band of posters" trounced him / her. Carelessly didn't consider that "gang" might take on an improper PC connotation in this context.
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Syne Offline
(Oct 6, 2016 10:18 PM)C C Wrote: EDIT: Er, I mean a "band of posters" trounced him / her. Carelessly didn't consider that "gang" might take on an improper PC connotation in this context.

Well...it's likely the band was the kind of people who make excuses for crime. So only one step removed.
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