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Police Social Media Bias PROVEN Disastrous For Community Safety
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November 12, 2022
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4:42Now PlayingNew reports show that police Facebook pages overrepresent black suspects which feed the news media cycle with biased facts to share with communities, which reinforces racial stereotypes. John Iadarola and Bridget Todd break it down on The Damage Report.
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ReportPolice Facebook pages overrepresent Black suspects
"Facebook pages run by local law enforcement agencies significantly overrepresented Black suspects, and those practices reinforce racial stereotypes about crime, a new study suggests.
Why it matters: The social media platform with more than a billion users makes it easy to reshare police posts that critics say can distort people's understanding of local crime.
Details: A study published last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed nine years of posts on the Facebook pages of nearly 14,000 local police departments.
Altogether, researchers found about 100,000 posts that mentioned the ethnicity of a suspect in a crime. Roughly 32% of those posts mentioned a Black person."
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