There is, sadly, a fine line. Police can engage in intrusive searches, but only with probable cause (“pat downs” aren’t considered intrusive, even when they involve people basically groping you over your clothes). Schools can search for drugs based on “reasonable suspicion”, and while that is generally supposed to…

That link actually didn’t support your claim of a lower incident of shooting of minorities - the study it cited simply found no difference in the likelihood of use of deadly force if you are stopped. It was only the Freyer study that included a coefficient that suggested lower shooting rates of minorities, and again…

You are likely referring to the work of Roland Fryer, and specifically a working paper he put out through the National Bureau of Economics Research in 2016. The finding of enhanced shootings on a per incident basis involving whites was a small and controversial piece of the overall work.. In the actual paper, Freyer…