The Surprising Geography of Police Killings: Back-of-the-Napkin Calculations on Race, Region, and Violence
BY CHRISTIAN PARENTI
In the United States, the police kill African Americans at a rate that is about 100 percent greater, or two times, 200 percent, their proportion of the national population. In 2016, black people were 24 percent of those killed by cops, in 2015 they were 27 percent of ...
