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Re:Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in t... by mhuffman on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:20PM (#12057986)
This is true, but a very, very small sub-set of people being shot. IIRC, greater than 80% of people shot by police have a weapon and are actively resisting.
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Re:Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in t... by jellicle on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:37PM (#12058080)
Since the U.S. does not collect any statistics on police shootings, it's hard to see how you could know that.
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Re:Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in t... by mhuffman on Friday July 08, 2016 @04:01PM (#12058237)
Evidently from, "... news reports, public records, Internet databases, and original reporting"[1]

Going by their data, of the 258 Black people shot by police in 2015, 188 were armed with a deadly weapon, 20 with a vehicle, 5 wth a toy weapon, and 45 either unarmed or unknown.

If you accept toy weapons and vehicles as being armed, that is 82%, which is what I remember hearing.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...

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