Re:Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in t...
by mhuffman on Friday July 08, 2016 @04:01PM
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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.
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...