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Do higher rates of violence explain higher rates of police killing in the US?
Perhaps surprisingly, in the 50 largest US cities there is no correlation between rates of violent crime & police killings.
Suggests it's primarily a cultural issue.
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Perhaps surprisingly, in the 50 largest US cities there is no correlation between rates of violent crime & police killings.
Suggests it's primarily a cultural issue.
Source:
Thanks for this graph @samswey.I wonder if this research has made its way into a paper or pre-print now?
People were right that this graph should be a scatterplot so I used WebPlotDigitizer to make one myself.
Shows there is indeed no relationship between 'Violent crime rates' and 'Rates of killings by police' across the 50 largest US cities, 2013-2018.
Shows there is indeed no relationship between 'Violent crime rates' and 'Rates of killings by police' across the 50 largest US cities, 2013-2018.
Note the labels for the Y and X axes in this graph are the wrong way around.
