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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by Joeri on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:12AM (#23389767)
“Fatal police shootings of unarmed people have significantly declined, experts say”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/fatal-police-s...

However, the overall trend in police killings is flat.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends

Interestingly:

“White Police Officers Are Not More Likely To Shoot Minority Suspects”

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/745731839/new-study-says-whit...

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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by nolsoniente on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:22AM (#23389852)
And you dont need to be black to get suffocated by police https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/yo...
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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by TeaDrunk on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:52AM (#23390029)
According to from what I understand fatal police shootings have declined in dense cities but have increased everywhere else.
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