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Mapping Police Violence shows more than 1,100 people were killed by police officers during 2020, 28% of whom were Black. Despite making up nearly 30% of police killings, Black people only constitute 13% of the US population, according to US Census data.
Black people were nearly three times more likely to be killed by an officer than white people, and were 1.3 times more likely to be unarmed than white people, Mapping Police Violence found.
Police officers killed more than 1,100 people in 2020, according to Mapping Police Violence.
That averages out to about three police killings each day.
Nearly 30% of those killed were Black and more than 20% were Hispanic.
Nearly 30% of those killed were Black and more than 20% were Hispanic.
However, defunding the police would hurt everyone within a community, including decent officers and the general public.
For these officers, racism means more than simply hating other races of people. It means that they automatically perceive those other races as being more likely, perhaps even guaranteed to commit crimes. As such, they see shooting/killing other races as being justified in both the moral and legal sense.