New Study: No Systemic Evidence Of Racism When Police Use Deadly Force

A new study of officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015–2016 found there was no systemic evidence of racial disparity in police use of deadly force.

The study, offered by two Michigan State University psychology professors and an Arizona State University professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, William Terrill, who has written extensively on police behavior, stated, “When adjusting for crime, we find no systematic evidence of anti-Black disparities in fatal shootings, fatal shootings of unarmed citizens, or fatal shootings involving misidentification of harmless objects.”