Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Greensboro Police Department sponsored research; "No statistical proof of racial bias by Greensboro officers in traffic stops"... Who would have thought?

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http://www.greensboro.com/news/report-no-statistical-proof-of-racial-bias-by-greensboro-officers/article_5cd6a700-d5d1-5581-97a6-4a22e72ef8a8.html
http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=29570

7,719 searches for blacks who make up about half of Greensboro's population.

2,292 searches for whites.

2,217 contraband found black

897 contraband found for whites with more contraband

"No statistical proof of racial bias by Greensboro officers in traffic stops"

This is what the News and Record reports in the headline,
which is what most read


"...But analysts at UNC-Greensboro and N.C. A&T, working separately, used additional data collected by Greensboro police and found the Times’ report to be incomplete because it failed to account for how the data was collected and sorted.