Police killings are awful but this graph is incredibly misleading at first glance. Homicides are on a scale 100x smaller than police killings. This presentation makes it look like they’re almost as frequent as homicides. In reality it’s not even close.
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Reply to Police Killings per Capita v Homicide Rate per Capita for Select OECD Countries [OC] by dr5c
Police killings are awful but this graph is incredibly misleading at first glance. Homicides are on a scale 100x smaller than police killings. This presentation makes it look like they’re almost as frequent as homicides. In reality it’s not even close.