@sapinker no, the statistics said that they don't shoot disproportionately to how often they arrest African-Americans.
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@sapinker which doesn't rule out racism in any way, but suggests that any racist biases affect arrest rate and shootings similarly.
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT "The data is unequivocal. Police killings are a race problem: AAs are being killed disproportionately, by wide margin."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT Data incomplete. For example, via stop and frisk White people more likely to be armed.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker ...Did we read the same article? Plz note that your misinterpretation will now be cited as fact by racists.#readingcomprehensionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker any clue about rates of incarceration and police harassment data?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT this is a wildly misleading simplification of the article. - 1 more reply
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT To pretend that race is not factor because Black people are disproportionately encountered, not shot, is silly.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT In America, if you don't advance on a cop, the likelihood of being shot is virtually zero.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT We don't know that, w/o data on arrest vs. shooting for whites.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT article does says race is in play at many levels "criminal justice system itself isan instrument of racial oppression" -
@sapinker@UpshotNYT interested your take on this larger conversation in the article
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT facts don't "say" anything, people do i.e.. more blacks killed by blacks than all others combined - must be racistThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker either misread or misrepresented the data. "Police don't shoot blacks disproportionately" http://nyti.ms/1VX7R0E@UpshotNYTThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT This is the tweet I have been waiting on: Oh boy, this going to upset a lot of people!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Author assumes % police encounters resulting in arrests equal for blacks & whites. But police may be over-arresting *and* shootingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@UpshotNYT "The data is unequivocal.. . African-Americans arebeing killed disproportionately & by a wide margin." Care to retract?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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