Re:Police have been quitting in droves in the last year
by bart_spoon on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:31AM
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Note that your source is for all shootings, and they specifically make a claim about "unarmed" individuals being shot, the implication that while black individuals are more likely to be killed by police, those killed are more likely to be armed and potentially violent.
I don't have a source supporting or disproving that claim, I'm just pointing out that the source you provided doesn't address the claim they are making.
Re:Police have been quitting in droves in the last year
by RankingMember on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:16AM
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Fair point, thanks for noting
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
> Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 371 civilians having been shot, 71 of whom were Black, in the first five months of 2021. In 2020, there were 1,021 fatal police shootings, and in 2019 there were 999 fatal shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 36 fatal shootings per million of the population as of May 2021.