Some of those are really small cities though so the stats can be easily skewed by a couple of killings. Still, it's not a good number.These three stats are quite eye-opening:
- An unarmed black person living in these cities was 6x more likely than an unarmed white person to be killed by police. An unarmed black person was almost as likely as an armed white person to be killed by police.
- The Police Homicide rate for black men in 17 cities is higher than the U.S. homicide rate. Black men in these cities have a higher chance of being killed by police than the average American has of being killed by anyone.
- Black men in six cities face a higher chance of being killed by police than the average American has of being killed in a car accident.