Race and crime

Lethal Police Force Against Blacks Linked To Community Racial Bias

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US police are more likely to disproportionately shoot and kill black people in neighborhoods where white people harbor racial bias, a study published Thursday suggests. The research, published in the international journal “Social Psychological and Personality Science,” found that implicit racial bias associating certain groups with aggression predicted gun use by police. The Canadian and … Read more

Elimination of Racial Discrimination

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International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is celebrated on March 21 every year. This year’s theme is: “racial profiling and incitement to hatred, including in the context of migration”. In Sharpeville, Transvaal in Apartheid South Africa, on March 21, 1960 police killed sixty nine people after they opened fire on over five thousand … Read more