Unarmed Black and Latino victims are vastly overrepresented among police killings.
Evidence
Compared to dominants, and everything else being equal, not only are subordinates disproportionately likely to be stopped, detained, and arrested by the police, but unarmed subordinates are disproportionately likely to be killed by the police. For example, according to the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report, while subordinates (i.e., Blacks and Latinos) constitute 37.4 percent of the American population, they constitute 62.7 percent of the unarmed victims of police use of lethal force (see Lopez, 2018a). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 68
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Unarmed racial subordinates are killed by police at rates far exceeding their population share (similarity 0.94)
- Police shootings kill roughly 1 in 1,000 Black men and boys over a lifetime (similarity 0.79)
- Black men face a 1 in 1,000 lifetime risk of being killed by police (similarity 0.79)
- Fatal police shootings of unarmed Blacks measurably harm community mental health (similarity 0.78)
- Homicide victimization ratio is a policing-bias-free criminality measure (similarity 0.78)
- Nonlethal police force is used on Blacks far out of proportion to population (similarity 0.78)
- Black defendants face death sentences most when victims are White. (similarity 0.78)