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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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.

Note the labels for the Y and X axes in this graph are the wrong way around.