Justin Ward
Aug 28, 2021

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Already looked at the database. There’s no income data.

Most databases of police shootings are drawn from news reports. When was the last time you read a news report that said so and so was killed by cops and he earned $20,000 a year?

I have no doubt that people who are poor die more often at the hands of police. But that’s an entirely different thesis from “Black people and white people who are in roughly the same socioeconomic position die at the same rate.”

You don’t have empirical evidence to support that claim because it doesn’t exist. Sorry.

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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