Does racial congruence between police agencies and communities reduce racialized police killings of civilians?

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In response to highly publicized, controversial police killings of Black Americans, policymakers and advocates have proposed several police reforms, including a recurrent, decades-long demand for police departments to diversify their forces to better match the racial composition of the communities t...

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Autor principal: Gaston, Shytierra (Autor)
Otros Autores: Teti, Matthew J. ; Sanchez, Matheson
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
En: Criminology & public policy
Año: 2021, Volumen: 20, Número: 4, Páginas: 665-690
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
fatal force
Policeorganization
Race and policing
Racialdisparities
Racial representation
Violence
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Sumario:In response to highly publicized, controversial police killings of Black Americans, policymakers and advocates have proposed several police reforms, including a recurrent, decades-long demand for police departments to diversify their forces to better match the racial composition of the communities they serve. We draw on a unique police agency-level dataset comprising 1,988 local police agencies and regress measures of police killings of Black, Hispanic, and White Americans from 2013 to 2018 onto racial congruence ratios and other theoretically relevant predictors. The results provide support for the hypothesis, revealing a negative association between racial congruence and police killings among Black and Hispanic victims.
ISSN:1745-9133
DOI:10.1111/1745-9133.12567