@article{ref1,
title="Do white police officers unfairly target black suspects?",
journal="Social Science Research Network electronic library",
year="2017",
author="Lott, John Richard and Moody, Carlisle E.",
volume="2017",
number="online",
pages="ID 2870189-ID 2870189",
abstract="Using a unique new data set on police-involved homicides, we apply several discrimination tests to determine if white police officers discriminate against black suspects. We find that the probability of an unarmed black suspect being killed by a white police officer is significantly greater than the probability of a black suspect being killed by a black police officer. We also find that while black officers are generally more likely than white officers to kill unarmed black suspects at a higher rate than they kill unarmed white ones, the differences in these gaps for black and white officers are not statistically significant. These findings are inconsistent with taste-based discrimination on the part of white police officers.  Keywords: discrimination, police use of force, racial bias",
language="en",
issn="1556-5068",
doi="10.2139/ssrn.2870189",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2870189"
}