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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 17 Oct 2015

    Data: Police don't shoot blacks disproportionately. Problem: Not race, but too many police shootings. http://nyti.ms/1VX7R0E  via @UpshotNYT

    7:26 AM - 17 Oct 2015
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      2. Nick Forge‏ @nickforge 17 Oct 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker no, the statistics said that they don't shoot disproportionately to how often they arrest African-Americans.

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      3. Nick Forge‏ @nickforge 17 Oct 2015
        Replying to @nickforge

        @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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      1. kelsey‏ @_ksfee 17 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @UpshotNYT "The data is unequivocal. Police killings are a race problem: AAs are being killed disproportionately, by wide margin."

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      1. matthew espy‏ @mathespy 17 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @UpshotNYT Data incomplete. For example, via stop and frisk White people more likely to be armed.

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      1. Dayna Long‏ @delizabethlong 17 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker ...Did we read the same article? Plz note that your misinterpretation will now be cited as fact by racists. #readingcomprehension

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      1. Jeffrey J Cheung‏ @CheungJJH 17 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker any clue about rates of incarceration and police harassment data?

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      2. kelsey‏ @_ksfee 17 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @UpshotNYT this is a wildly misleading simplification of the article.

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      1. ...‏ @fastforwind 17 Oct 2015
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        .@sapinker @UpshotNYT To pretend that race is not factor because Black people are disproportionately encountered, not shot, is silly.

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      1. War and Peace‏ @cynthharrington 17 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @UpshotNYT In America, if you don't advance on a cop, the likelihood of being shot is virtually zero.

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      1. David V. Johnson‏Verified account @contrarianp 17 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @UpshotNYT We don't know that, w/o data on arrest vs. shooting for whites.

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      2. chris D‏ @dr_devlinstien 25 Nov 2015
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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"

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      3. chris D‏ @dr_devlinstien 25 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker @UpshotNYT interested your take on this larger conversation in the article

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      1. Paul Yamilkoski‏ @HCRCreditRepair 19 Oct 2015
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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 racist

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      1. Gavin‏ @Aggrospirit 18 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker either misread or misrepresented the data. "Police don't shoot blacks disproportionately" http://nyti.ms/1VX7R0E  @UpshotNYT

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      1. (((LS Mitchell)))‏ @LSMitchell 17 Oct 2015
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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!

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      1. Alex Richert‏ @planetformer 17 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker Author assumes % police encounters resulting in arrests equal for blacks & whites. But police may be over-arresting *and* shooting

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      1. TheStressofHerRegard‏ @TheIdlestHand 17 Oct 2015
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        @sapinker @UpshotNYT "The data is unequivocal.. . African-Americans arebeing killed disproportionately & by a wide margin." Care to retract?

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