Report: Police Facebook pages overrepresent Black suspects
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- Publish Date:
- November 8, 2022
- Author(s):
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- Ortiz, Keldy ,
- Kaufmann, Justin ,
- Contreras, Russell
- Source:
- "Police agencies on Facebook overreport on Black suspects", was discussed by Axios in "Report: Police Facebook pages overrepresent Black suspects".
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Summary
“We seem to have this assumption that crime reports should have race descriptions in them and we’re not questioning it,” said Julian Nyarko, Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and another author of the report.
“Part of our message is to point out there is a very significant social cost which is the stigmatization.”
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