[zer8k]

Another fun fact is when controlling for race and gender you are still more likely to be killed by a cop than almost anything else.

[leereeves]

This is so far from true it's absurd.

Roughly 100k Americans per year die from drug overdoses, 30k from car accidents, while only 1k are killed by police.

And while everyone knows cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of death, few people realize they kill significant numbers of young Americans, more than 10k per year.

Even if you limit the discussion to violent crime, you're far more likely to be killed by someone you know than by an officer.

[diydsp]

checks out: https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

Although this is quite concerning:

> about 1 in every 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by police [1]

Also:

> Black people more than three times as likely as white people to be killed during a police encounter [2]

Also interesting to note:

> The average lifetime odds of being killed by police are about 1 in 2,000 for men and about 1 in 33,000 for women. [1]

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821204116

[2] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/blacks-wh...