You will find more statistics at Statista
In the U.S. a total of 509 citizens have been killed this year alone by police. The body count for the previous year stands at a grand total of 990 people shot dead, according to the Washington Post. As the below infographic shows, most of those killed by police are male and white. 123 of those shot were Black Americans. This is a relatively high share, keeping in mind that close to 13 percent of Americans belong to that ethnic group.
What’s also disturbing is that according to the data compiled by the Washington Post a big proportion of those killed obviously showed signs of mental illness. Of the 509 killed this year at least 124 were thought to be suffering from such conditions. Many of those killed carried guns according to police records. In at least 22 cases officers mistook toy guns for the real thing.
123/990=12.4%, vs black population of 13% according to article. That looks proportional. Of course, compare 990 fatal shootings in the US to China, which had 12 (twelve) fatal police shootings in 2014, with a population of well over 1 billion!
Add to that we have more prisoners/capita (save a small island somewheres, tiny population) than any other country, and have 1/4 of all female prisoners on the planet, etc. etc.-we have a f****ed up society.
123 = blacks killed ytd 2016
990 = total killed in 2015
You are comparing apples to oranges.
—> 123/509
According to the article, 990 was total killed last year, white and black, of which 123 were black, or did I miss something?
OK, article wasn’t too clear, but it’s 123 out of 509 in 2016, so 24% black fatalities vs 13% population.
You might try comparing the execution rate in those countries you seem to praise for low prison populations to ours.
Saudi Arabia, China, etc have much lower prison populations since you don’t need to house the dead in a prison after you’ve killed them.
FWIW, any official social data coming out of China needs extreme scrutiny before being compared to anyone or anything anywhere.
Neither praising nor condemning China, simply giving statistics. Don’t get so snarky. Yes, China executes more per capita, and the US has more prisoners per capita, and more police killings per capita.
Over the last 30 years, the US prison population has grown considerably while violent crime rate has dropped considerably. Some people think the “while” in that last sentence should be replaced with “because”.
Not quite.
Rewordimg: Over the last 30 years, the violent crime rate has dropped considerably while the US prison population has grown considerably.
Now you can change ‘while’ to ‘because’.
Some other statistics I found from two articles, written in 2015:
1)In Norway, cops have shot only one person to death. That was nearly a decade ago. Since then there have been no other fatal shootings by Norwegian police.
(They also don’t have the death penalty)
2) In the first 24 days of 2015, US police shot and killed 59 people, which is more than police in England and Wales did in the last 24 years (55).
Kokoda,
While I think keeping the violent offenders locked up longer has contributed to the falling crime rate, if Strauss and Howe are correct, we should have expected the crime rate to fall even without such measures, simply because the Nomads are getting too old for that shit.
Serious questions;
1. The chart shows cops killed 22 people with …. toy guns. WTF??
2. And 88 died by knife. WTF … copfuks are knifing people?