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When attempting to prove that US cops are racist, sources compare the proportion of deaths to the overall population proportion of African-Americans. However, shouldn't the proportion of deaths that are of black Americans be compared with the proportion of black encounters with the cops instead?

by /u/spoofbot in /r/askscience

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