Black Lives Still Don’t Matter to Cops: Arrests Not Likely For African-American Homicide Victims, Study Finds
Black Lives Still Don’t Matter to Cops: Arrests Not Likely For African-American Homicide Victims, Study Finds
The police were least likely to make an arrest in cases involving African-American homicide victims, the Washington Post reported, based on a decade-long analysis of homicide arrest data from 55 of the nation’s largest cities.
African-American victims accounted for more than 18,600 of the nearly 26,000 killings in 52 of those cities. Authorities put someone behind bars in 63 percent of cases involving a white victim, but just 47 percent of the times when the victim was Black.
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