These Are The Black People Police Have Shot And Killed This Year

[Igel]

68. I come up with an upper bound of around 70.

But that's an upper bound. Lots of factors other than just racism--things like percent in an age cohort, for example--could reduce that number. Also things like how violent a neighborhood is perceived to be, based either on the non-random incidents reported on the news, actual police stats, or just hearsay. (Who am I to question perceptions? That's what I've often been told.)


That's so far this year.


Note that one of the weirdnesses with perceptions is that stats may be what they are, but they're misinterpreted. Many are scared of being killed by a terrorist for being a Xian or killed by a black guy. Both are small risks, but higher than chance (so that means "disproportionate&quot . Or you see what's presented on the news, and get a skewed idea about what's actually happening. That's a large bit of the critique of the news and media's being racist, the chance of a black thug being shown on tv is much higher than that of a white thug doing the same crime would be. There are hundreds of incidents, and the media just pick the ones that involve a certain kind of event portraying some group in a certain light because that's what people want to see, that's what they believe and this shapes the incoming group of views in the same way.

Of course, that's the 6 o'clock news, the New York Times, and DU. Video posted here of a white guy being shot by police for non-compliance had no comments after 13 hours.