[OC] Fatal Police Shootings in the US: Racial disparities. In absence of racial differences, the probability of fatal police encounters would be the same across racial groups. It is not. Black/African Americans are 4.5 times more likely to have a fatal encounter with the police than Asian Americans.Submitted by HitchHux t3_11dj069 in dataisbeautiful
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> If you detained every single person in America and strip-searched them based on a single murder, I think most people would say that's over-policing.
That won’t increase the number of observed murders.
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