at a rate of 1 in every 1000, police killings are now a leading cause of death for young black men https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-08-15/police-shootings-are-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-black-men

we’re more likely to be killed by people who took an oath to protect and serve than to win a scratch ticket

police killings are the cause of death for nearly *1 in every 50* black boys age 20-24

while black men are 2.5x more likely to be killed by police than white men, police killings are the 6th highest cause of death for you men across racial groups.

women are less likely to be killed by police, but, of course, black and brown women are more likely than white women

but it’s important there are disparities *within* those groups. the kind of over-policing that drives up those numbers are concentrated in poor neighborhoods, which is why police killings are the 6th leading cause of death for young white men too https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304851