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Chris Trottier

Police Facebook pages have a racial bias.

Are you surprised? Probably not -- but here's some statistics to back that up.

John Rappaport, a professor of law at the University of Chicago, analyzed nearly 14,000 police Facebook pages, and discovered the racial bias was consistent.

Between 2010 and 2019, Black suspects were described in 32 percent of posts but represented just 20 percent of arrestees.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/p

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@atomicpoet

Seems to be an error in logic. There is not an arrest in every situation where a suspect's race is known. This data is not surprising; It is expected.

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