The point is that police shootings are just one of the many ways police uses excessive force against minorities. Did they control for whether the amount of forc

The point is that police shootings are just one of the many ways police uses excessive force against minorities. Did they control for whether the amount of force used was warranted? Did they control for whether the location of the shooting was a black minority or majority neighborhood? The ethnicity of the cop? It's too easy to lump all the data into one average and simply loose all the detail of an extremely complicated issue such as police brutality, for example killings where lethal weapons weren't used. "Police not more likely to use thermonuclear weapons against whites, blacks, study finds."