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Here's something I found interesting.

I'm not sure how it got calculated because police kill around 1,000 people a year in the US and about 300 black people a year in the US.

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

According to this the chance of black male being killed by police (over lifetime?) is 1 in 1000. The chance of a white male being killed is 1 in 2000. The chance of a female being killed is 1 in 33000.

I'm not sure what to say here. Are more men getting killed because men behave more violently (well probably)? Or are more men getting killed because of some bias?


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