White Homicide Victims Are Four Times More Likely to Have Been Shot by the Police Than Black Homicide Victims

STEVE SAILER 

America has crucified itself in this decade over a single stat: In 2020-2022, blacks have been fatally shot by the police at a per capita rate 2.5 times higher than non-Hispanic whites (using data from the Washington Post database of fatal police shootings and the CDC WONDER database of deaths-by-cause):

2020-2022
	WP Fatal Police Shootings	Population	Police Shootings per 100k	Ratio vs. White Rate
White	1,297	196,813,417	0.22	1.0
Black	700	41,714,804	0.56	2.5
Hispanic	428	62,202,322	0.23	1.0
Asian	40	19,579,666	0.07	0.3
American Indian	31	2,445,390	0.42	1.9
Other or Multi	3	8,334,937
Unknown	665	0
Total	3,164	331,090,538	0.32	1.5

But, is that the only way to look at this data?

What about police shootings as a percent of total homicide victimizations suffered by each race?

2020-2022
	WP Fatal Police Shootings	CDC Total Homicide Victimizations	Homicide Victimizations per 100k	Ratio vs. White Rate	% Police	Ratio vs. White Rate
White	1,297	18,344	3.1	1.0	7.1%	1.00
Black	700	41,036	32.8	10.6	1.7%	0.24
Hispanic	428	12,863	6.9	2.2	3.3%	0.47
Asian	40	911	1.6	0.5	4.4%	0.62
American Indian	31	1,037	14.1	4.5	3.0%	0.42
Other or Multi	3	1,114	4.5	1.4
Unknown	665	158
Total	3,164	75,463	7.6	2.4	4.2%	0.59

Well, it turns out that police shootings made up 7.1% of all white homicide victimizations compared to only 1.7% of black homicide victimizations. So whites who die by homicide are about four times for likely to be shot by a cop than blacks who die by homicide and about twice as likely as Hispanics who die by homicide.

Why are the cops shooting so many whites relative to the the threat that whites are in and/or pose?

My guess is that suicide-by-cop is much more common among whites, while the contrary black tendency toward homicidality helps gets them shot by scared cops more.

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