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Deadly Encounters with Police – 2016 [by the numbers]

You’ve likely heard about it on TV, or radio, or read it in a bird cage liner… but there is much ado about the number of police related deaths (people killed during police encounters)… and the riots that are raging around these deaths.

I don’t plan to get into the circumstances of these deaths right now… I’m just going to look at some numbers compiled buy some sort of media watchdog that… compiles the news into a fairly handy webpage. The data that I used was located here: ==> http://www.killedbypolice.net/

What did I find? You can draw your own conclusions. I’ve broken the data down in to three main sections:


Now for the data..

RACE
White: 376
unreported: 78
Black: 206
Indigenous: 21
Latino: 142
Pac. Islander: 6
Asian: 10
Other: 2
WhiteunreportedBlackIndigenousLatinoPac. IslanderAsianOther

STATE
CAMDUTNECOTNNCCTFLTXNYOHMNKYALOKPAVTMOAZIADCWVWAARMIGAILNJNMKSAKORNVVAWILASCIDMTINHIMSWYDENHRISDMAMENDVI118138729202765664202110182122152184044818121221231321761310211819145412692212510112
White37645%
unreported789%
Black20624%
Indigenous212%
Latino14217%
Pac. Islander61%
Asian101%
Other20%

GENDER
Male: 795
Female: 43
unreported: 2
Transgender: 1
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