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by a3n 3821 days ago
"Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths" http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-p...

Data on race, mental health, etc.

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If you go through that data entry by entry, you find that in the majority of cases, the victim was brandishing a firearm, and has usually discharged it.

It's an incredibly useful data set; take a month or two and a pair of specific areas and tally the data up. I learned a bunch. For instance: tasers? Way the fuck more dangerous than I thought (and I didn't think they were benign before).

Just to be clear, 1134 is the number killed of all races, genders, and age groups. Young black men were 15% of those, or about 170.