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Comment by GeorgeOrr | Hacker News Reader

How many black lives are lost yearly? And those that aren't by chance caught on video tape get zero press.

Just knowing the stuff that happens must make people edgy.

I tried to look it up. The Post has police shootings at around 400 people. Half were white and half were minority. 2/3 of the minority were black. So, I think around 133.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shooting...

From the article you link to:

"Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred."

But statistically they appear to be involved in a high number of homicides. I don't know the details of the shootings. How many people were armed/unarmed for example. Where did the shootings take place? Traffic stops on highways, for example.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/02/...

The time window on that particular number isn't actually a full year, but the year up till may 30 when the article was published. Considering that crime tends to go up in the summer months instead of staying flat over the year you're probably better off looking at last year's numbers, instead.

According to http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/black-americans-killed-by-po... (which cites killedbypolice.net), at least 238 black people were killed by police in 2014. That's about double the total number of police killed in that year.

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