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& #39;s primarily a cultural issue.

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☝" title="Up pointing index" aria-label="Emoji: Up pointing index"> 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 & #39;Violent crime rates& #39; and & #39;Rates of killings by police& #39; 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.
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