Fatal police shootings 40% more likely in states with higher gun ownership

[livingston]

Fatal police shootings 40% more likely in states with higher gun ownership

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The U.S. Constitution’s second amendment gives us the “right to bear arms,” but what if having a gun for protection is actually putting you more at risk of harm? A new study finds that a person’s chances of being involved in a fatal police shooting is higher in states with the highest rates of gun ownership, compared to those with the lowest.
The study, from researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Northeastern University found that people were 3.6 times more likely to be involved in fatal police shootings if they lived in the 10 states with the most guns — Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisian, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia — than if they lived in the five states with the least — Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.
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Fatal police shootings 40% more likely in states with higher gun ownership

 

[Deplorable Me]

Soooo...

How did the researchers cook the books with the data on this one?

 

[Grimscale]

"This data comes from the Washington Post's "Fatal Force Database," which the researchers used for their study because there isn't a federal database to track police-inflicted deaths.

Looking at data for the years 2015-2017, the researchers asessed the levels of household gun ownership in each state, and adjusted for violent crime rates, as well as the proportion of the population that was non-white or living in poverty and urbanization."

So they take what is already a questionable source, twist and manipulate the data, then come to an arguably laughable conclusion.
Just how did they "asess the level of household gun ownership" when most firearms are not registered?
"Adjusted for violent crime rates" means what...that they removed these as a source of the 'civilian' death? So States with higher crime rates are automatically going to have less 'civilian' deaths if they've effectively removed the whole reason people interact with police.

"As well as the proportion of the population that was non-white or living in poverty" - you know, MOST of New York, especially the ones that interact with police regularly.


Good job, guys. You've proven that Statistics are, once again, mathematical bullshit.


Edit:
Doesn't the FBI keep a record of police inflicted deaths? Wouldn't that have been a more reliable source than the Washington Post?

 

[tirwin1]

A Harvard study based on data from the Washington Post. Thats all I need to know to discount it entirely.

 

[Podmonkey]

Bullshit.

 

[E the massive]

If one is a dumbfuck and pulls a gun on a cop. Did they factor in those "sovereign" tards, they prefer to inhabit the free states.

 

[ProgSpear]

A recent study shows an 93.3% inverse correlation between the degree of liberalism of the source of any study crossed with the documented sarcasm quotient, and the factored intesectionality rating on the SNAFU-Smelling test.

See, I can do statistical studies too. And they are equal in accuracy to the one cited in the OP.

 

[Mr. terzmo]

well , well ,well...does it have a % of all those shootings by illegal gun holders ? How many shootings are done by "legal" ownership vs non legal...Is it all lumped in: you have a gun so it must be legal ?.I'll bet that in NYastan it's a super high % of illegal gun ownership that are doing the shooting

 

[Acer-m14]

The study, from researchers at the Harvard T.H. 4Chan School of Public Health

fixed it LOL ..