Having read Vyan's "How Often are Unarmed Black Men Shot Down By Police?" I was wondering how to place it in context for the average person... I mean how dangerous is it really, compared to what an average (white) American has to deal with? I mean, how does this compare with a white woman's potentially irrational fear of being killed by a random black guy? How do you respond to a white guy who thinks that black folk are overreacting to cops 'just protecting themselves"?
Yeah.. OK. let's compare the probability of a black guy suffering a "Justifiable homicide" at the hands of cops to the national murder rate...
The results are below the Orange Ricochet.
From Vyan's article I took the first city -- Chicago. In 2012, Chicago police killed 21 blacks, 1 white and 1 Latino. According to Wikipedia, Chicago had 2,695,598 people in 2010, with 32% being black. I also made two presumptions in my calculations:
1) Chicago's black population is 50% male, and
2) all the blacks killed by the police in Vyans's statistic were men.
Working with those presumptions, I came up with 431296 black men, and 21 Deaths.
so 21/(431296/100000) = 4.87 deaths per 100,000
According to Wikipedia, again, The US Murder rate (about 91st on the list) was 4.7, in 2012.
In other words, if my presumptions hold, The probability of a black man dying at the hands of police in Chicago is actually higher than the average murder rate in America, and the people sworn to 'serve and protect' are more deadly than the average criminal.. Even if my presumptions fail, the numbers are still comparable
White women ain't got notin' on you 'Bro.