12/04/2023
America has crucified itself in this decade over a single stat: In 2020-2022, blacks have been fatally shot by the police at a per capita rate 2.5 times higher than non-Hispanic whites (using data from the Washington Post database of fatal police shootings and the CDC WONDER database of deaths-by-cause):
| 2020-2022 | ||||
| WP Fatal Police Shootings | Population | Police Shootings per 100k | Ratio vs. White Rate | |
| White | 1,297 | 196,813,417 | 0.22 | 1.0 |
| Black | 700 | 41,714,804 | 0.56 | 2.5 |
| Hispanic | 428 | 62,202,322 | 0.23 | 1.0 |
| Asian | 40 | 19,579,666 | 0.07 | 0.3 |
| American Indian | 31 | 2,445,390 | 0.42 | 1.9 |
| Other or Multi | 3 | 8,334,937 | ||
| Unknown | 665 | 0 | ||
| Total | 3,164 | 331,090,538 | 0.32 | 1.5 |
But is that the only way to look at this data?
What about police shootings as a percent of total homicide victimizations suffered by each race?
| 2020-2022 | ||||||
| WP Fatal Police Shootings | CDC Total Homicide Victimizations | Homicide Victimizations per 100k | Ratio vs. White Rate | % Police | Ratio vs. White Rate | |
| White | 1,297 | 18,344 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 7.1% | 1.00 |
| Black | 700 | 41,036 | 32.8 | 10.6 | 1.7% | 0.24 |
| Hispanic | 428 | 12,863 | 6.9 | 2.2 | 3.3% | 0.47 |
| Asian | 40 | 911 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 4.4% | 0.62 |
| American Indian | 31 | 1,037 | 14.1 | 4.5 | 3.0% | 0.42 |
| Other or Multi | 3 | 1,114 | 4.5 | 1.4 | ||
| Unknown | 665 | 158 | ||||
| Total | 3,164 | 75,463 | 7.6 | 2.4 | 4.2% | 0.59 |
Well, it turns out that police shootings made up 7.1% of all white homicide victimizations compared to only 1.7% of black homicide victimizations. So whites who die by homicide are about four times as likely to be shot by a cop than blacks who die by homicide and about twice as likely as Hispanics who die by homicide.
Why are the cops shooting so many whites relative to the threat that whites are in and/or pose?
My guess is that suicide-by-cop is much more common among whites, while the contrary black tendency toward homicidality helps get them shot by scared cops more.
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