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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts) Fri Oct 10, 2014, 05:16 PM Oct 2014

Young black men are 21 times more likely than whites to be killed by police

Source: ProPublica/Raw Story

Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater i, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings.

The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.

One way of appreciating that stark disparity, ProPublica’s analysis shows, is to calculate how many more whites over those three years would have had to have been killed for them to have been at equal risk. The number is jarring – 185, more than one per week.

ProPublica’s risk analysis on young males killed by police certainly seems to support what has been an article of faith in the African American community for decades: Blacks are being killed at disturbing rates when set against the rest of the American population.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/analysis-shows-young-black-men-are-21-times-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-police/

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Young black men are 21 times more likely than whites to be killed by police (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 OP

Better Ditch Hillary billhicks76 Oct 2014 #1

Sad part is that despite busily one-upping Hillary cprise Oct 2014 #6

where are these courage leaders who want to make a national stage of Ferguson Supersedeas Oct 2014 #8

Intimidated By Big $$$ billhicks76 Oct 2014 #11

And according to this the rates are even higher, Cali. sheshe2 Oct 2014 #2

I am a white man and probably have no right to say anything but THIS stat makes me sick and diabeticman Oct 2014 #3

this history of this country is a history of violence directed toward maintaining white privilege Supersedeas Oct 2014 #9

this is why this happens see kill the messenger jonjensen Oct 2014 #4

Interesting article on the rate of violence in the black community boomer55 Oct 2014 #5

K&R&NT ZombieHorde Oct 2014 #7

K&R Solly Mack Oct 2014 #10

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)

1. Better Ditch Hillary

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 05:34 PM

Oct 2014

Rand Paul just became the 1st Presidential nominee to visit Ferguson and meet with community leaders. So now he has preempted us on drug policy, marijuana legalization, wars of aggression and police brutality and militarization. Hillary is in the pocket of the Mass Incarceration Complex and even forfeiture policies that even some conservatives now see as just plain wrong. It's common sense. So now we better find a candidate of our own who isnt corrupted like Hillary is. Quit holding onto the past. It's about the future which is dynamic and fluid not static and rigid.

cprise

(8,445 posts)

6. Sad part is that despite busily one-upping Hillary

Reply to billhicks76 (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 12:06 AM

Oct 2014

he is even less sincere than she is.

Supersedeas

(20,630 posts)

8. where are these courage leaders who want to make a national stage of Ferguson

Reply to billhicks76 (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 14, 2014, 10:30 AM

Oct 2014

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)

11. Intimidated By Big $$$

Reply to Supersedeas (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:02 PM

Oct 2014

Our politicians are bought and paid for at the executive level and we are looked upon as either obedient workers or dissenting prisoners-to-be.

sheshe2

(83,773 posts)

2. And according to this the rates are even higher, Cali.

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 06:01 PM

Oct 2014

The data, for instance, is terribly incomplete. Vast numbers of the country’s 17,000 police departments don’t file fatal police shooting reports at all, and many have filed reports for some years but not others. Florida departments haven’t filed reports since 1997 and New York City last reported in 2007. Information contained in the individual reports can also be flawed. Still, lots of the reporting police departments are in larger cities, and at least 1000 police departments filed ma report or reports over the 33 years.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/analysis-shows-young-black-men-are-21-times-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-police/

This is disturbing in so many ways.