Researchers who published a widely cited paper on fatal police shootings in 2019 said they’ve requested a retraction because the paper is being used improperly.
Michigan State University researchers found “no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers,” they wrote in the research article, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
