In 2014, the shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson
in Ferguson, Missouri, set off a wave of protests and sparked a movement
targeting racial disparities in criminal justice. Since then, there
have been other controversial deaths of African Americans at the hands
of law enforcement that have captured the public’s attention, from Tamir
Rice, to Philando Castile. But there are some who say that these
encounters, many of them recorded, have fed a narrative of biased
policing that the data does not back up, vilifying people who are trying
to do good in a difficult job that often puts them in harm’s way. What
are the statistics, and how should we interpret them? How have recent
incidents shaped our view of policing? Does crime drive law
enforcement’s use of force, or is there racial bias?
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