Don ’t Shoot! The Impact of Historical African American Protest on Police Killings of Civilians

ConclusionsThe results clearly show that historical protest resulted in an increase in civilian deaths by legal intervention regardless of race in the short-run and a seemingly permanent increase in killings of non-white over the medium-to-long run. These results paint a depressing picture in which uprisings represent a structural change in police-civilian relations, adversely affecting white civilians in the short-run and non-white civilians in the short and long-run.
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - Category: Criminology Source Type: research