TL;DR: It’s about 3.5x more lethal to be black in the USA. # PLOS ONE: Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings, 2011–2014


In case you wanted to see some data that confirms how much deadlier it is to be black…

“The results provide evidence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Americans, in that the probability of being {black, unarmed, and shot by police} is about 3.49 times the probability of being {white, unarmed, and shot by police} on average.”

A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the County-Level in the United States, 2011–2014