It's research, are we not allowed to research Police and report on the results? That stance seems anti science to me...
First sentence of the abstract. Activist research.
Do you have any problems with the methodology or conclusions? Like, science can still be science even if it's pursued in the name of social justice. If they are cooking the books, then that's one thing, but if they are making a hypothesis, gathering data, and evaluating that hypothesis fairly using real data, then it's just science.