Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling

Armed? Like the 92 year old in wheel chair in a nursery home, who was holding a cutlery knife?
Police calls everything armed, and they call everything a lethal threat. They are trained to be scared all the time, despite fewer policemen die from working hazards than bakers!
- The biggest source of injury and death for a police man is traffic accidents. A delivery girl moving pizzas isn't much different from a police man, except she delivers delicious, not death, to people.
- Nursing is a more dangerous job than Police officer.
  
  Nursing is a more honorable job than police officer.
- •The kid with a candy bar
  •The kid with a cell phone
  •Whoever raises their head too much around them.

Sure, important metric. But can you please choose better fucking colors for the graph?
- Caucasian flesh tone color pencil color doesn't work for you?
  
  I'm not colorblind, but I'm aware of the colors that don't work for those who are.
  Caucasian flesh tone colored pencil is one of them.
  
  If they used brown the plot would be shot
  
  Honestly, I can’t distinguish the colors
  
  If you are Caucasian and have skin that is any of those colors, please see a doctor immediately.
- To not discriminate against the colorblind, they made it hard for everybody.
- my color bind ass thanks you for your service.
- Until this comment, I hadn't even realized there were multiple colours in the graph.

fatal police shootings in more-Democratic states have declined 15 percent on a population-adjusted basis, with the rate holding relatively steady since Mr. Floyd’s death.
But in Republican-leaning states, they have risen 23 percent. And within those redder states, exurbs and rural areas, which tend to be more conservative than cities, have the highest rates of police killings.
You're telling me that in republican bastion states of lower education, less unions, less social spending, and more racism, is tied to more violence and a greater amount of extra-judicial killings by the state-sanctioned corporation-protectors? But they have almost 4 weeks of training! How could this possibly be??
But don't worry! They're trying to make it worse! Far worse!
This week, the Justice Department said it would no longer investigate or oversee nearly two dozen police departments that were accused of civil rights violations, including in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky. And in April, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at “unleashing” law enforcement, including by directing the U.S. attorney general to “provide legal resources” to defend police officers accused of wrongdoing.

I'm not actually sure this is true. There is no complete national tracking of police shootings, and if you look at the supposed data before this graph starts, it's basically all just flat year by year, which seems pretty suspect. I highly suspect that people are processing the unknown percentage of incomplete and inconsistently-parameterized data that they have, basically a whole bunch of incomplete bullshit, into a single magic number, which suddenly blesses it with the illusion of comparability year by year which it does not have.
I suspect that the sudden rise in killings starting in 2020, which coincided with near-universal bodycam adoption, heavy pressure from the feds to reform bad departments, serious efforts by the FBI to actually track complete data or as near to it as they could gather, was a result not of increased killings but an increase in the proportion of police shootings that went into the graph.
I could be wrong. That's just my feeling.
Also, yes, holy shit these are some bad colors to choose.
- And they should plot the numbers per capita to correct for population changes.
- It doesn't help that suicide by gun is considered the same as gun violence. Accurate metrics are important, and the people upstairs don't want to provide.

Thus demonstrating the power of the peaceful protest.
- Meaning it has no power, right?
  
  It's more complex than that, and a protest has more important benefits than a mere direct message (incl. networking), but a ruler or military/police won't change their mind because a million people said "I don't like this". There needs to be some threat, like a strike or even violence, to make them suddenly care about ethics.
- If you divide the data into red states and blue states, you'll see that police killings have fallen in blue states, but risen in red states.
  
  Have a source?
  
  you’ll see that police killings have fallen in blue states
  Does this include deaths in ICE detention centers?

The growth in 'unknown' accounts for both the rise in armed and fall in unarmed.
The systemic problem was ignored, so it makes sense the only major change is more uncertainty.

Sure is a coincidence that right after George Floyds murder, the amount of 'unknown' killings rose to like 5 times as high. Pretty sure those can all be booked under 'unarmed'.

The definition of Armed needs some context.
Police are always armed. Does that meanwe should shoot them on sight?
- This is one among a few different problems with this data. To some departments, “armed” means a firearm. To some, it means a bottle or a stick nearby. To some, it means the officer lied and put something in their report and no one follows up to make sure it’s accurate.
  The mishmashing together of all the different incompatible datasets (which do not cover all of the shootings that actually happen) and then the presentation as if it’s a complete picture is just a big lie to make it look like people can make sense of what’s going on. The total lack of even the slightest attempt to disambiguate justified shootings from unjustified is probably an even bigger problem. Pretty much all this chart can tell you is roughly what the total number in an average year is, which isn’t real useful.
  
  Shiny reflection from a cellphone was probably included in the armed category as well.
  Yeah, police "fear for their lives" so much, it's amazing they don't just shit their pants and die crying like the racist bitches they are.
  
  This is one of those areas where modern AI might actually come in handy. Let it go through every bodycam for every incident and write the report without the bias of the officer on duty. And it could go through the archive of all footage to help build better statistics than this self-reported data.
  Yeah, it’d have to be an openly auditable model, obviously.

Part of the increase is some forces' answer to accusations of racism were to start killing everyone (who is poor).

"We don't need to defund the police, we need to fund the police!"
Huh I wonder why murders by police have gone up. Certainly not the fascist takeover of all levels of government.

Not surprised, the Orange Kool-Aid drinkers are also supplying police departments with more military grade equipment.

Are gangs standing up for themselves again?

Looks like the police are more diligent about planting weapons on the people they kill.

So... My odds of not being shot by a cop are better if I carry a replica gun, unless I'm reading this wrong.
- You're reading this wrong.

s/Armed/Police claim were armed/
s/Unarmed/Police admit were unarmed/

Ok, so the graph shows us how police killings have gone since George Floyd, but can we see a graph of police killings since George Floyd?
- Why? It’s just going to be COVID and car wrecks being the main killers, like it is every year.
- Like 4 or so, which is nothing compared to how many people were killed by police.