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Indeed. The chronology is important:
1. Cesario et al [1] received some criticism [2], but they stood by their findings [3]
2. A student union / twitter mob was not happy with the findings of the study [4]
3. The resulting political pressure led to the ousting of Stephen Hsu from MSU, who had approved the funding for the study [5]
4. Only then retracted Cesario et al their study, while still standing by their findings [6]
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There is a similar study done by economist Roland Fryer [7], while at Harvard.
Summarized, the two studies find the following:
Cesario et al:
Per interaction with the police, civilians have roughly the same risk of being killed by police gunfire, regardless of their ethnicity.
Fryer:
- Per interaction with the police, civilians have roughly the same risk of being the target of police gunfire, regardless of their ethnicity.
- Per interaction with the police, a black civilian is 1.5x more at risk to receive slight use of force by the police than a white civilian. This disparity gets smaller at higher levels of force. (See [7], Figure 1)
- Per interaction with the police, a perfectly compliant black civilian is 1.2x more at risk to receive slight use of force by the police than a perfectly compliant white civilian. This disparity gets smaller at higher levels of force. (See [7], Figure 5)
[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1903856116
[2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1919418117
[3] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1920184117
[4] https://twitter.com/gradempunion/status/1270829004157849600
[5] https://lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2020/06/19/msu-vp...
[6] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2004734117
[7] https://scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/...