The statistics show a rapid decline in police violence and do not support a racial bias in violence
In addition to that, 20% of the people cops shoot at are unarmed[4][5].
[1] http://useofforceproject.org/
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/...
[4] https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwvv3a/shot-by-cops
[5] https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jjpa/nonfatal-police-s...
Well...let’s just quit right now.
As it should be to prove it.
FBI and others should have plenty of data about it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
As well:
- According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.
- U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times larger than the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer.
- When considering shootings confined within a single race, a black person shot and killed by police is more likely to have been unarmed than a white person. About 13 percent of all black people who have been fatally shot by police since January 2015 were unarmed, compared with 7 percent of all white people.
- Police reform advocates and researchers as well at The Post’s own analysis has consistently concluded that there is no correlation between violent crime and who is killed by police officers.
- A 2015 study by a University of California at Davis researcher concluded there was “no relationship” between crime rates by race and racial bias in police killings. A report released last week by the Center for Policing Equity, which reviewed arrest and use-of-force data from 12 police departments, concluded that black residents were more often targeted for use of police force than white residents, even when adjusting for whether the person was a violent criminal. - An independent analysis of The Post’s data conducted by a team of criminal-justice researchers concluded that, when factoring in threat level, black Americans who are fatally shot by police are no more likely to be posing an imminent lethal threat to the officers at the moment they are killed than white Americans fatally shot by police.
- “The only thing that was significant in predicting whether someone shot and killed by police was unarmed was whether or not they were black,” said Justin Nix, a criminal-justice researcher at the University of Louisville and one of the report’s authors, said in April. “Crime variables did not matter in terms of predicting whether the person killed was unarmed. This just bolsters our confidence that there is some sort of implicit bias going on. Officers are perceiving a greater threat when encountered by unarmed black citizens.” Blacks are shot and killed by police at 2.5 times the rate of whites.
Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/1...
Also, even if there was no racial disparity, the current situation is not ok.