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Without looking it up, how many unarmed black men would you guess were shot to death by cops in 2019, in the United States?

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35.9%
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Honest question: how much do we believe/trust the self-reported statistics on police violence?

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I haven’t even looked up the answer to your question, but even if I did, I’d be dubious of whatever it showed. It’s my understanding that the record keeping on this has been absent, self-serving, and sparse at best.

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The washington post has a compilation of data, here's them describing how they got it: github.com/washingtonpost

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Damn, I didn't see that you had already posted a link to this DB.

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