November 22, 2016
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Race and Policing on the Second Anniversary of Ferguson
by Donald Roth
…of officers had no complaints lodged against them during the period of the study. ↩ The Harvard study’s data set on officer-involved shootings focused on Houston, TX, and its results should only cautiously be generalized if one has reason to believe that Houston is not typical of a metropolitan police force across the country. There is at least some evidence that the former police chief Charles McClelland took steps to root out racial bias, which…
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