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Originally Posted by wdmso
Data collected by the Washington Post on the use of lethal force by police officers since 2015 indicate that, relative to the portion of the population, Blacks are over-represented among all those killed by police under all circumstances. As is evident in Figure 1 below, (looking at the top blue bar) according to the US Census estimates, Blacks made up 13% of the population. However, in 2015 they accounted for 26% of those that were killed by police, in 2016, 24%, and in 2017, 23% of all those killed by police. In other words, Blacks were the victims of the lethal use of force by police at nearly twice their rate in the general population.
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But yet when you look at the breakdown of violent crimes, by race, they are responsible for more than twice the percentage of crimes, in regards to the percent of their population by race.
Including a whopping 52.6% of all murder arrests in 2016 and 53.1% of all murder arrests in 2017.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ables/table-21
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ables/table-43