>Black lives matter. The moderation team at AskScience wants to express our outrage and sadness at the systemic racism and disproportionate violence experienced by the black community. This has gone on for too long, and it's time for lasting change.
>When 1 out of every 1,000 black men and boys in the United States can expect to be killed by the police, police violence is a public health crisis. Black men are about 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white men. In 2019, 1,099 people were killed by police in the US; 24% of those were black, even though only 13% of the population is black.
Is this actually accurate? Let's say 1,000 people are shot and 25% are black - that's 250 every year out of a population of 37,000,000 blacks. In what universe does that translate to 1 in 1,000 blacks getting shot every year?
>When 1 out of every 1,000 black men and boys in the United States can expect to be killed by the police, police violence is a public health crisis. Black men are about 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white men. In 2019, 1,099 people were killed by police in the US; 24% of those were black, even though only 13% of the population is black.
Is this actually accurate? Let's say 1,000 people are shot and 25% are black - that's 250 every year out of a population of 37,000,000 blacks. In what universe does that translate to 1 in 1,000 blacks getting shot every year?
