"The
vast majority of interactions between police officers and civilians end
routinely, with no one injured, no one aggrieved and no one making the
headlines. But when force is used, a new study has found, the race of
the person being stopped by officers is significant.
The
study of thousands of use-of-force episodes from police departments
across the nation has concluded what many people have long thought, but
which could not be proved because of a lack of data: African-Americans
are far more likely than whites and other groups to be the victims of
use of force by the police, even when racial disparities in crime are
taken into account."
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