Does it show why they are more likely? Perhaps being combative, non compliant, threatening? Too many variables to considerFrom your link:
The study found that police were more than twice as likely to manhandle, beat or use some other kind of nonfatal force against blacks and Hispanics than against people of other races. However, the data also determined that officers were 23.8 percent less likely to shoot at blacks and 8.5 percent less likely to shoot at Hispanics than they were to shoot at whites.
So the obvious conclusion is that there is clearly racial bias...however it is not exhibited in the shooting stats...just all the other forms of physical abuse. I do have some curiosity as to why this professor stepped so far out of his area of expertise, he's an economics guy, after all. I wonder if he considered the correlation between income and police abuse.
Anyway, his study in no way shows that there is no racial bias in policing in the Houston area, quite the opposite.
Certainly, one cannot really draw any wide-ranging conclusions based on one small study by someone who does not have a proven competence in this field~
FYI..this same professor was suspended for two years from Harvard for sexual abuse~