#Etats-Unis. #Violences_policières : les chiffres surprenants d’un économiste d’Harvard
Roland Fryer, étoile montante de l’université Harvard, a voulu mesurer les #disparités_raciales dans l’usage de la force par la #police. Son étude, aux résultats surprenants, fait beaucoup de bruit aux Etats-Unis.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/etats-unis-violences-policieres-les-chiffres-surprenants-dun-
#paywall
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force
Roland G. Fryer, Jr
▻http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf
“A bulk of the data analyzed came from Houston, Texas, and Roland’s team concluded that police officers there were about 20 percent less likely to shoot suspects if they were black. Wrote Roland:
In stark contrast to non-lethal uses of force, we find no racial differences in officer-involved shootings.… We find [instead] that blacks are 23.8 percent less likely to be shot at by police officers relative to whites….
Partitioning the data in myriad ways, we find no evidence of racial discrimination in officer-involved shootings….
The data does more to provide a more compelling case that there is no discrimination in officer-involved shootings….
On the most extreme use of force — officer-involved shootings — we are unable to detect any racial differences in either the raw data or when accounting for controls….
In the end … we have no definitive proof of discrimination.”
