07-12-2018, 04:03 PM
(07-12-2018, 03:23 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Not sure what study that is.
I went off of this database:
https://www.fatalencounters.org/our-visualizations/
There could be a study that disproves it though
Fatal Encounters makes a laudable attempt to collect the stats they can. But notice the largest category of decedents has no race assigned at all, which makes discerning a pattern very difficult, if we want to know whether more unarmed blacks than whites are shot. I didn't see a category for armed and unarmed either. A guy who kills himself in a crash while fleeing police also counts as a death for their purposes, since they are tracking deaths from "interactions" with police.