Research database explores racial bias in police shootings (2019)
This study mirrors others, namely, police shooting are rare and don&#x27;t show racial bias in the aggregate, and usually are &#x27;justified&#x27; in some form (i.e. aren&#x27;t a very clear case of wrong doing like the George Floyd case). It isn&#x27;t great for police reform policy, because you don&#x27;t have metrics to judge success or aspire to.<p>Having said that, this is an emotional issue and does need some solution. There was a recent article about a black Google VP who was hiding in her office when there was some sort of active-shooter threat on the YouTube campus. She was as much afraid of being shot by this threat, as she was of mistakenly being shot by a police SWAT team... that&#x27;s a real fear in a person of privilege (highly educated and positioned high in a Fortune 500 corporate hierarchy) and that&#x27;s not good. There is a lot of trust that needs to be regained that all the calls to &#x27;defund the police&#x27; miss. Maybe we need more funding (not less), for things like training in community interactions and deescalation. Why not have police officer spend 1 day out of every month, doing some sort of simulation training on deescalation and community outreach and .. heck .. &#x27;customer service&#x27; - it&#x27;s going to be expensive, but social strife is expensive too.