Adjusting for homicide rates, whites are 1.7 times more likely to be killed by cops. Obviously it isn't completely clear how to do the adjustment, but I think it's clear that:
(a) There are good reasons to make some kind of adjustment(s)
and
(b) Both the ones that Moskos makes are pretty reasonable.
I originally found Moskos's blog because I linked to this by Andrew Rosenthal. Rosenthal accuses Moskos of shenanigans--denying reality, cooking data--but Moskos seems a lot more reasonable and dispassionate, and his arguments seem more cogent and detailed than Rosenthal's. Rosenthal accuses Moskos of using bad data. That I can't speak to.
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