Might police shootings of unarmed African Americans have anything to do with state-level structural racism? Anita Knopov from Boston University joins us to talk about her study “The Relationship Between Structural Racism and Black-White Disparities in Fatal Police Shootings at the State Level,” published in The Journal of the National Medical Association in April 2018, and co-authored with Michael Siegel and five other researchers.

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Qualitative data and next steps of research

Will results replicate with city-level data?

Converting data to a parallel scale of 1 to 100

Potential avenues for longitudinal analysis

Deciding not to weight components in structural racism index

Controlling for GINI coefficient and median household incomes

Working with the media and press

Parkland survivors and challenging gun policies