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In 2023, Black people were killed at a rate 2.6 times higher than white people, Mapping Police Violence found. Last year, 290 people killed by police were Black, making up 23.5% of victims, while Black Americans make up roughly 14% of the total population. Native Americans were killed at a rate 2.2 times greater than white people, and Latinos were killed at a rate 1.3 times greater.

Black and brown people have also consistently been more likely to be killed while fleeing. From 2013 to 2023, 39% of Black people who were killed by police had been fleeing, typically either running or driving away. That figure is 35% for Latinos, 33% for Native Americans, 29% for white people and 22% for Asian Americans.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240111131315/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/08/2023-us-police-violence-increase-record-deadliest-year-decade

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There was some reality show about game wardens I caught a bit of years ago, and it was jaw dropping how those cops could go out to the middle of nowhere and come across alleged poachers and trespassers and other criminals who'd still have their hunting rifles in their hands and just have a calm and professional chat with them about the kinds of citations they were going to be getting

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Game wardens have superior training and are put in more extreme situations so they actually deescalate situations. Cops are almost always trained in the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

North Woods Law (Maine) or Lone Star Law (Texas)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It would have been the Maine one probably, I remember it was in a heavily forested area (I wasn't the one who put it on the TV and was just doing some holiday visiting when I got sucked into watching it for like five minutes)