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From KPBS: “The realities in San Diego County mirror those nationwide. In January to March 2022, police in the United States have shot and killed an average of three people a day, and just 44% of them were white, according to the nationwide advocacy organization Campaign Zero’s Mapping Police Violence project.”
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Recent research studying differences across the three data sources has found that while the three crowd-sourced data sources are similar, they have become more dissimilar throughout time (Comer and Ingram, 2022).
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Using MPV and other crowd-sourced data, the study found: “From 1980 to 2018, the NVSS did not report 17,100 deaths (95% UI 16,600–17,600) out of 30,800 deaths (30,300–31,300) that we estimated, accounting for 55.5% (54.8–56.2) of all police violence deaths from 1980 to 2018.”
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The threshold for being perceived as dangerous, and thereby falling victim to lethal police force, appears to be higher for White civilians relative to their Black or Hispanic peers.