A Causal Framework to Evaluate Racial Bias in Law Enforcement Systems

arXiv:2402.14959v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We are interested in developing a data-driven method to evaluate race-induced biases in law enforcement systems. While the recent works have addressed this question in the context of police-civilian interactions using police stop data, they have two key limitations. First, bias can only be properly quantified if true criminality is accounted for in addition to race, but it is absent in prior works. Second, law enforcement systems are multi-stage and hence it is important to …

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