Of all suspects who are known to have been killed by police during that 7-year time frame, 41.7% were white, 31.7% were black, and 20.3% were Hispanic.
In 2015, a Justice Department study of the Philadelphia Police Department found that black officers were 67 percent more likely than their white colleagues to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect, and Hispanic officers were 145 percent more likely to do the same.
The available data indicate that a mere 0.08 percent of black men and white men alike are injured by police in any given year.
In a 2018 working paper titled "An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force," Harvard economist Roland Fryer, who is African American, reported that police officers in Houston were nearly 24 percent less likely to shoot black suspects than white suspects.
In a separate analysis of officer shootings in three Texas cities, six Florida counties, and the city of Los Angeles, Fryer found that: officers were 47 percent less likely to discharge their weapon without first being attacked if the suspect was black, than if the suspect was white; black and white individuals shot by police were equally likely to have been armed at the time of the shootings; white officers were no more likely to shoot unarmed blacks than unarmed whites; black officers were more likely to shoot unarmed whites than unarmed blacks; and black officers were more likely than white officers to shoot unarmed whites.
"In fact," writes Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald, the study found that "If there is a bias in police shootings after crime rates are taken into account, it is against white civilians." Specifically, Mac Donald adds, the authors of the study compiled a database of 917 officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 and found that 55 percent of the victims were white, 27 percent were black, and 19 percent were Hispanic.
In 2017 457 whites, 223 blacks, and 179 Hispanics were killed by police officers in the line of duty.
In 2015, a Justice Department study of the Philadelphia Police Department found that black officers were 67 percent more likely than their white colleagues to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect, and Hispanic officers were 145 percent more likely to do the same.
The available data indicate that a mere 0.08 percent of black men and white men alike are injured by police in any given year.
In a 2018 working paper titled "An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force," Harvard economist Roland Fryer, who is African American, reported that police officers in Houston were nearly 24 percent less likely to shoot black suspects than white suspects.
In a separate analysis of officer shootings in three Texas cities, six Florida counties, and the city of Los Angeles, Fryer found that: officers were 47 percent less likely to discharge their weapon without first being attacked if the suspect was black, than if the suspect was white; black and white individuals shot by police were equally likely to have been armed at the time of the shootings; white officers were no more likely to shoot unarmed blacks than unarmed whites; black officers were more likely to shoot unarmed whites than unarmed blacks; and black officers were more likely than white officers to shoot unarmed whites.
"In fact," writes Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald, the study found that "If there is a bias in police shootings after crime rates are taken into account, it is against white civilians." Specifically, Mac Donald adds, the authors of the study compiled a database of 917 officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 and found that 55 percent of the victims were white, 27 percent were black, and 19 percent were Hispanic.
In 2017 457 whites, 223 blacks, and 179 Hispanics were killed by police officers in the line of duty.
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