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A 2015 study found that unarmed black people were 3.49 times more likely to be shot by police than were unarmed white people. [49] Another study published in 2016 concluded that the mortality rate of legal interventions among black and Hispanic people was 2.8 and 1.7 times higher than that among white people.
While a U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics survey found that an estimated 350,000 people reported facing physical force by police each year from 2002 to 2011, data from Mapping Police Violence ...
Basically, cops have constructed a not-so-thin blue barrier between police statistics and everyone who should have access to them — i.e., citizens. 135 unarmed Black people have been fatally ...
For 2019, it reported a total of 1,004 people shot and killed by police. [9] [10] According to the database, 6,600 have been killed since 2015, including 6,303 men and 294 women. Among those killed, 3,878 were armed with a gun, 1,119 were armed with a knife, 218 were armed with a vehicle, 244 had a toy weapon, and 421 were unarmed. [11]
Police shot Murray as he stood with his friends. [11] July 15, 1967 Eloise Spellman: 42 Newark, New Jersey: Police and National Guardsmen shot three people in apartments after reports of sniper fire. [11] Rebecca Brown: 29 Hattie Gainer: 53 July 15, 1967 William Furr: 25 Newark, New Jersey: Police shot Furr as he fled a looted liquor store. [11 ...
The U.S. Marshals have for the first time released data on how many people were shot by their officers or other police working with them. ... and comes at a time when data about police shootings ...
In total numbers, White people make up the majority of police deaths in the database, but not the highest rate per million. The rate of fatal police shootings per million was 10.13 for Native Americans, 6.66 for Black people, 3.23 for Hispanics; 2.93 for White people and 1.17 for Asians. [55]
When video of the shooting was released, it sparked the resignation of Chicago's police chief resigned and national debate over race and policing. RELATED: More on the LaQuan McDonald case