Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory - ProMarket
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are more lenient towards white drivers than minority drivers when issuing speeding tickets. In response to the tragic murder of George Floyd at the hands of ...
Hasnain says:
This study had a really interesting methodology - they used police department data to first identify which officers are likely not biased and then used that baseline to look into indicators of bias. And the numbers are both higher and lower than I'd expect.
"A key strength of our setting is that the average officer writes hundreds of tickets over a several-year period. The high frequency of recorded activity allows us to adapt our empirical approach to estimate the degree of discrimination for each individual officer. Doing so, we find that 40 percent of officers practice discrimination. While this figure is not the majority of officers, it is hardly a few bad apples."
Posted on 2021-03-24T06:16:08+0000