The House Judiciary Committee, now controlled by Democrats, had called a hearing to address a "Series of deaths of unarmed African-American men while in police custody" as well as the "Mistrust between police and marginalized communities." Throughout the four-hour session, a photo array of blacks killed by the police played continuously on video screens around the room, interspersed with statistics allegedly proving that the police harbor lethal racist bias.
Goff heads the Center for Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice; the Center purports to document police bias through the use of data.
Others, myself included, have argued that crime rates should be the relevant benchmark for police activity, since policing today is data-driven: officers are deployed to where civilians are being victimized, and that is overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.
Ironically, Goff's Center for Policing Equity has conducted its own study of police use of lethal force that was not only-inevitably-correlational but that reached the same conclusion as the PNAS and Fryer studies: there is no bias in lethal shootings by the police.
Ron Davis, who headed the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services in the Obama Justice Department, claimed: "The idea that police themselves can reduce crime is false. It is completely false." This statement, too, was aimed at my testimony, which had also documented the New York policing revolution's radical effect on the city's crime rates.
Davis's rejection of the efficacy of policing is an odd position for a COPS director to take, since the office distributes federal tax dollars to local police agencies to fight crime.
The Democratic committee members and their witnesses clearly laid out their agenda should they retake the White House and Senate: mandatory implicit-bias training for cops, a huge waste of money that could be spent instead on tactical and de-escalation training; mandatory racial-profiling data collection, which will be measured, misleadingly, against a population benchmark; racial quotas for police hiring, which require lowered standards; and more federal consent decrees for police departments, which cripple the ability of cops to engage in proactive policing and divert millions of dollars into the pockets of federal monitors.
https://www.city-journal.org/police-shootings-racial-bias
Goff heads the Center for Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice; the Center purports to document police bias through the use of data.
Others, myself included, have argued that crime rates should be the relevant benchmark for police activity, since policing today is data-driven: officers are deployed to where civilians are being victimized, and that is overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.
Ironically, Goff's Center for Policing Equity has conducted its own study of police use of lethal force that was not only-inevitably-correlational but that reached the same conclusion as the PNAS and Fryer studies: there is no bias in lethal shootings by the police.
Ron Davis, who headed the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services in the Obama Justice Department, claimed: "The idea that police themselves can reduce crime is false. It is completely false." This statement, too, was aimed at my testimony, which had also documented the New York policing revolution's radical effect on the city's crime rates.
Davis's rejection of the efficacy of policing is an odd position for a COPS director to take, since the office distributes federal tax dollars to local police agencies to fight crime.
The Democratic committee members and their witnesses clearly laid out their agenda should they retake the White House and Senate: mandatory implicit-bias training for cops, a huge waste of money that could be spent instead on tactical and de-escalation training; mandatory racial-profiling data collection, which will be measured, misleadingly, against a population benchmark; racial quotas for police hiring, which require lowered standards; and more federal consent decrees for police departments, which cripple the ability of cops to engage in proactive policing and divert millions of dollars into the pockets of federal monitors.
https://www.city-journal.org/police-shootings-racial-bias
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