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Re:Police have been quitting in droves in the last year by viraptor on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:15AM (#27617801)
Absolute death by police in 2020: white 457, black 241. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

Population: white 197M, black 40M. https://statisticalatlas.com/United-States/Race-and-Ethnicit...

Per-capita: close to 3 times as many black people shot. I couldn't find clear statistics for unarmed victims. Please post if they're much different.

Re:Police have been quitting in droves in the last year by bluedino on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:37AM (#27618183)
Those aren't unarmed, though (you pointed that out but I wanted to make it clear)

One of the most pernicious myths about police shootings is that officers shoot unarmed black men at an alarming rate, when in fact just 2% of the people who were killed by an officer were unarmed and black. Since the beginning of 2015, law enforcement officers across the country have actually killed 33 more unarmed white people than unarmed black people.

Re:Police have been quitting in droves in the last year by hn8788 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:30AM (#27618075)
This site says it's normally close to 2x more unarmed white people shot, so it would still be less per capita. It's still a relatively small number for both; a mid-teens amount of unarmed black people, and a mid to high 20s unarmed white people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...

Re:Police have been quitting in droves in the last year by ttfkam on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:13PM (#27643718)
Note that we are not sure how many folks are killed by police every year let alone the demographics of those deaths. But even the data we have doesn't look good.

https://policeviolencereport.org/

US police departments are not required to provide this information. It must be collected ad hoc by outside orgs.

Many reports will (I kid you not) list sickle cell disease as cause of death during a police stop.

Re:Police have been quitting in droves in the last year by tzs on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:35AM (#27618155)
You used to be able to get data on armed vs. unarmed at killedbypolice.net, although it took a bit of effort. The site was simply a chronological list of all the known police killings in the US, for each giving name, age, race, gender, location, and linking to news stories covering the killing.

Unfortunately that site shut down, someone else got the name, and it now redirects to RoBarGuns.com, a gun review and buying guides site.

You can still get the data from archive.org here [1]. That has all the 2020 shootings up through July 20th, and has links for prior years back to 2014, and the last month of 2013.

I remember a couple years ago going through the then previous year and picking something like 50 at random (via a random number generator) and looking into the details, but I don't remember if I specifically took note of armed vs. unarmed.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200723033637/https://killedbyp...

Re:Police have been quitting in droves in the last year by ttfkam on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:14PM (#27643730)