California police killings database reveals 'clear racial disparities'
They don't look out of line with disparate crime rates, though.
Anyway, The Guardian sub-heads the story with this racist lie.
Black men have been killed at eight times the rate of others over past decade
But what does the story itself say?
This.
According to California’s data, 984 homicides by law enforcement officers in the state were recorded between 2005 and 2014.
A homicide by law enforcement staff was defined as “a death at the hands of a law enforcement officer”, including pre- and post-arrest killings.
Within this total, 196 or 19.9% of the people killed were black.
According to the state, 5.8% of the population between 2005 and 2013 was black, giving African Americans a death rate – the percentage of homicides per percentage of population – of 3.4.
About 43.8% of people killed in police custody were Hispanic, a group that made up 37.1% of the state’s population during the last nine years, giving a death rate of 1.2.
White people were 30.2% of those killed by police and constituted 41.1% of California’s population, meaning a death rate of 0.7.
The figures mean black people were killed by law enforcement at almost five times the rate of white people and almost three times that of Hispanic people.
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