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Yeah, I'm pretty sure the stats say the opposite is true, but it really depends who's using the statistics to paint _their_ picture.

In this study run by Harvard professor Roland Fryer, it was found that African-Americans are 20% less likely to be shot and proportionally more likely to see use-of-force against them.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399

I didn't find anything unbiased in my quick search on "likelihood of death during interaction."



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