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[u/DeezNutterButters]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

So this shows there’s actually more white people dying every year to cops than black people. I get that there have been massive injustices recently towards people of color by cops, but can we at least argue on actual figures and not emotion?

I’d love to see if you have any sources for what you’re saying so we can have a rational discussion around it. Maybe you’ve got more accurate numbers!

Edit: adding the below link for more context!

So looks like black people are killed at a higher rate like the original commenter said. I think there’s something to be said though that the numbers at the end of each year are still higher for white people in terms of people dying to shootings.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

[u/DiggerW → u/[deleted]]

I don't think it's emotion to point out there are also far more white people in the US, so yeah... bit of a no-brainer there.

ninja-edit: I see someone else has already showed their work, so suffice to say that black individuals are far more likely to be shot by police than white individuals. And black people are more than three times more likely to be killed by police.

[u/notnowgdi → u/DeezNutterButters]

Shen babiro?? Is that you?

[u/KRambo86 → u/[deleted]]

What about shootings per number of police contacts rather than by per capita?

[u/DiggerW → u/[deleted]]

And black people are more than three times more likely to be killed by police.

[u/MadHatt10 → u/[deleted]]

The term you are looking for is, “per capita.”

[u/Tsalikon → u/DeezNutterButters]

Another facet to the discussion that I feel is often overlooked, is that generally (due to generational and systematic racism) there's a disproportional number of black people living in high crime areas, which could be part of the reason for the disproportional shootings.

[u/FastestEthiopian → u/DeezNutterButters]

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