I-Team: Police and diversity, does racial bias play a role?
Numbers suggest that African-American men are more likely than their white counterparts to be killed by police gunfire. But how great is the disparity? That's the question on a lot of people's minds.
The 8 News NOW I-Team spoke to a local expert on police tactics and training and asked him that very question.
John Peters runs the institute for the prevention of in-custody deaths in Henderson. Peters says the available data indicates African-American men are disproportionately more likely than white men to be killed by police.
Peters says it's hard to determine how much of a role racial bias plays -- even in the most recent incident in Chicago.
"Whether this was a racially motivated incident -- only the officer would truly know that, but it certainly didn't do anyone justice the way this took place, and it certainly would add fuel to that argument that this is white-on-black -- no doubt about it," Peters said... Read More
