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I'm not sure which point you are trying to address, but where did you get your data? According to the data collected by the Washington Post [1], in each of the
by pg314 9y ago
I'm not sure which point you are trying to address, but where did you get your data?
According to the data collected by the Washington Post [1], in each of the years since 2015, less than half of the victims (excluding 2018 the percentage varied between 49.9% and 46.3%) of fatal police shootings have been white.
There is some uncertainty because for some cases the race is unknown. That data also only deals with shootings, so it is possible that if you count all killings the data is different. Can you share your data source?
[1] https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
- leereeves 9y agoI got my data from The Guardian [1]. Their data only covers 2015 and 2016 but appears to be more comprehensive for those years, listing 1146 killings in 2015 and 1093 killings in 2016, vs 995 and 963 in the Post data, perhaps simply because they list all killings rather than only shootings. They list enough "white" victims that more than half were white even including victims of unknown race. But this is a minor point. It's very close to 50% in either source so perhaps we should simply say "half of all people killed by police are white". 1: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/...
- NotSammyHagar 9y agoEven if half, it's still true that driving while black is a thing with police.