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Bias in Policing
Low income and minority neighborhoods experience disproportionate police violence, which has adverse effects on those communities as a whole.
- Menifield et al. 18
- Bias in policing isn’t just a “few bad apples,” nor is it a problem among white police officers specifically; policing practices inherently operate in a discriminatory manner.
- The disproportionate killing of African Americans by police officers “is likely driven by a combination of macro‐level public policies that target minority populations and meso‐level policies and practices of police forces.”
- “Much research in organizational theory suggests that the problem of disproportionate killing may be fundamentally institutional.”
- Also outlines past studies on policing that recognize the disproportionate impacts of institutional policies on minorities
- Edwards et al. 19
- Black, Indian, and Native people are significantly more likely to get killed by the police than white people
- “For young men of color, police use of force is among the leading causes of death.”
- The Guardian 15 (Cited)
- POC are killed at a disproportionate rate, even more so when unarmed.
- Feldman et al. 18
- Police disproportionately target low-income and POC neighborhoods
- “Overall, police-related death rates were highest in neighborhoods with the greatest concentrations of low-income residents and residents of color”
- Lancet Journal: Bor 18
- Instances of police brutality harm mental health
- “Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on mental health among black American adults in the general population.”