So here are some relevant statistics. They don't paint the full picture but they're handy to have. Unless otherwise noted, these are based on the
Fatal Force 2019 archive assembled by Washington Post. Use these to debate people online like some kind of sperg.
African Americans are only 12% of the US population, but make up 24,4% of all victims from lethal force by law enforcement. Compared to their population that's a representation of 220%. Compared to the amount of white American victims, 310% (
graph here).
This demographic of 12% of the US population commits 52,6% of all murders and 54,5% of all robberies (
graph here). In 2018, 7407 African-Americans were murdered, 89,5% of those by other African-Americans (
graph here). This percentage has remained more or less consistently around 94%
from 1976-2005 (taken from
this report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics). Since 2005, it's remained consistently at 90%. Keep in mind this statistic is similar for white populations - 86% of all killed white Americans were killed by other white Americans.
The American police had 375 million moments of contact with civilians according to the New York Police Benevolent Association. 10,5 million of those were arrests (
graph here), 1004 of those arrests ended fatally, and of those 1004 fatal arrests, 20 of those were unarmed white Americans and only 10 of those were unarmed African-Americans (
source here).
Using these numbers we can calculate that in 2019, the amount of unarmed African-Americans killed by police only makes up 0,13% of all 7407 killed African-Americans in 2018 (the most recent available data I can get).
