AA, particularly young urban male AA in large police jursidictions, are very disproportionately involved in violent criminal activity, so it is to be expected that violent interactions with the police will also be higher. I am surprised that the discrepancy is not higher. That said, there have been a number of police killings that were not justified and should be or have been prosecuted. I am hopeful that body cams will improve behavior on both the police and public's side and reduce tension by providing an avenue to resolve disputes over what really occurred. It is clear that many police have a culture of covering up errors and excessive force and it is also clear that witnesses/criminals often lie about police activities to make them look like victims of police brutality.
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Police in the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World Nation!
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Police in the United States killed at least 1,152 people in the United States this year through Dec. 15, with the 60 largest police departments disproportionately killing black people, according to data compiled by activists who run the Mapping Police Violence project....Forty percent of people killed by police in the country's 60 biggest police departments were black, while the African-American population in those jurisdictions was 20 percent, the report said.