August 15, 2014
By Jaeah Lee
Previous attempts (click here) to analyze racial bias in police shootings have arrived at similar conclusions. In 2007, ColorLines (click here) and the Chicago Reporter (click here) investigated fatal police shootings in 10 major cities, and found that there were a disproportionately high number of African Americans among police shooting victims in every one, particularly in New York, San Diego, and Las Vegas....
The shooting of unarmed black men is far higher than unarmed Caucasian men. It is a fact and it is backed by statistics.
We don't perform statistics often enough to monitor police and any trends regardless of the topic. The USA has to get better at this. I think there is an underlying problem as witnessed with Anthony V. Bruno, the Kansas City Firefighter. But, when race is added to it there is a far larger problem.
