Racist Fact #2: Whites are more likely to be killed by police
Did you know?
- Per arrest, more whites are killed than blacks.
Whites: 1 death per 22,615 arrests
Blacks: 1 death per 24,750 arrests
- Per violent crime commited, more whites are killed than blacks.
Whites: 1 death per 818 violent crimes
Blacks: 1 death per 1,455 violent crimes
- Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. According to FBI data which also found that 42 percent of cop killers are black
- An officer's chance of getting killed by a black assailant is 18.5 times higher than the chance of an unarmed black getting killed by a cop.
- Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.
- Once adjusted for homicide rates, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.
- Over the span of more than a decade, 2,151 whites died by being shot by police compared to 1,130 blacks.
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