| Some Facts on Police Killings | 
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The Point of this information:
Bethania Palma, Sep 22, 2016
The article copied here in case the original is deleted or taken offline. One extra highlighting done. BUT READ MORE AFTER ON PREDICTING KILL RATES.
CLAIM: Police shootings kill more white Americans than black Americans.
True: MIXTURE
WHAT'S TRUE: In absolute numbers, more whites than blacks are killed in police 
shootings (because whites outnumber blacks in America).
WHAT'S FALSE: Overall, black Americans are several times more likely to be 
killed in police shootings than white Americans are.
ORIGIN: In September 2016, the ongoing issue of police shootings and race came to 
a head after a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot and killed Terence 
Crutcher, an unarmed 40-year-old African-American man.
Similar shootings throughout the U.S. have been caught on camera and widely 
shared via social media, prompting the development of the Black Lives Matter 
movement to address a seemingly constant stream of American police officers 
killing unarmed black people. The issue has also inspired some critics to 
disingenuously counter that white people are the ones who are killed most 
frequently by police officers, as expressed in a 21 April 2015 Washington 
Times article:
An analysis shows that more white people died at the hands of law enforcement 
than those of any other race in the last two years, even as the Justice 
Department, social-justice groups and media coverage focus on black victims of 
police force.
Any "analysis" of police killings will of course show that in absolute numbers, 
more white people are killed in police shootings than black people, because 
(non-Hispanic) whites comprise a roughly five times greater share of the U.S. 
population (62% vs. 13%). So any "analysis" that is based on nothing more than 
absolute numbers and does not take demographics into account is inaccurate and 
misleading
Because the federal government doesn't keep an accurate log of police shootings, 
news outlets such as the Washington Post and journalists such as D. Brian 
Burghart have begun tracking such data independently. The Post described the 
statistical breakdown of fatal police shootings in 2015 thusly:
According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more 
white people in America than there are black people. White people make up 
roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who 
are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 
percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 
percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis, that means 
black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed 
by police officers.
According to Fatal Encounters, the database created by former Reno News & 
Review editor and journalism instructor Burghart (which tracks all deaths 
resulting from interactions with police), a total of 1,388 people were killed by 
police in 2015, 318 (23%) of them black, and 560 (40%) of them white. So roughly 
23 percent of those killed by any police interaction in 2015 were black and just 
over 40 percent were white. According to those statistics (adjusted for racial 
demographics), blacks had a 2.7 higher likelihood of being killed by police than 
whites.
The grim trend has carried over into 2016. Of the 1,034 people killed and 
tracked by Burghart's Fatal Encounters database so far this year, 215 were black 
while 338 were white, so thus far in 2016 black Americans have been three times 
more likely than whites to die in interactions with police. That statistic holds 
for figures sent to us by Burghart compiled between Jan. 1, 2013 to Sept. 21, 
2016, with suicides-by-cop removed. Burghart told us:
I think it's pretty obvious that black people are killed at much higher rates 
than white people. I'm not going to say that white people are underrepresented 
in these numbers, since I think all people are overrepresented in this data, but 
it's clear that black people are highly overrepresented.
Other factors that are also prevalent in analyses of deadly use of force by 
police officers include age, gender, mental illness, and the circumstances of 
the deaths. In 250 of the fatal shootings recorded by the Post in 2015, the 
victims showed signs of mental illness. Men were far more often killed than 
women. In 782 instances, the person killed was armed with some type of "deadly 
weapon." In 28 instances, there was no record of the victim's race.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 22 September 2016
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5 Statistics about Cops killing Blacks  Excerpts from the article, but 
click on the link and read the whole thing.  
A copy is here this 
website.
In #1:
Mac Donald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau 
of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of 
robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest 
counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the 
population in these counties.
"Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that 
officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting 
suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal 
force," writes MacDonald.
MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that blacks "commit 75 
percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all 
violent crime" in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the 
city's population.
"The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent 
of police victims would be black," MacDonald said. "Officer use of force will 
occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed 
suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods."
#2 More whites and Hispanics die from homicides than blacks
#3 ...unarmed black men are more likely to die by gun of a cop than an unarmed 
white man...
#4 Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire at blacks than 
white officers
#5 Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops.  This is 
according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are 
black.