Fact-check: “Police are more likely to use lethal force when arresting black people than when arresting white people.”
Verdict: Mostly True (72% confidence)
Multiple peer-reviewed studies and population-level databases consistently find that Black people are killed by police at roughly 2.5–2.8 times the rate of white people, and one per-arrest study found Black arrestees were 2.5–3.1 times as likely to be hospitalized for use-of-force injury. The main qualification is that a subset of the literature — most notably Fryer (2019) and studies using crime-rate benchmarks — finds no racial disparity specifically in officer-involved shootings once certain…
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