Thread by @Scientific_Bird

Who kill police officers?
I gathered FBI data from 2010-2018 of officers feloniously killed. Total:

No. of killers by sex:
● Male: 460 (97%)
● Female: 14 (3%)

By race:
● White: 260 (58%)
● Black: 175 (39.1%)
● American Indian: 8 (1.8%)
● Asian/Pacific Islander: 5 (1.1%)

Of course, it should be added that this is in the United States.

For clarification, white includes hispanic.

Neither sex nor race is reported for every single killing, but they are for most. I've only counted those where it was reported.

Conversely, who do the police kill? Washington Post has kept track of fatal police shootings. In 2015-2019 the totals of the victims is:

Sex:
● Male: 4172 (95.3%)
● Female: 204 (4.7%)

Race/Ethnicity:
● White/Hispanic: 2683 (69.5%)
● Black: 1002 (26%)
● Other: 173 (4.5%)

Is there symmetry?

In terms of sex/gender it is very close to symmetrical. Females are victims of fatal police shootings in 4.7% cases and are perpetrators of feloniously killing police officers in 3%.

Only a slight difference.

In terms of race, we observe that white/hispanic people are more likely to be fatally shot by police (69.5%) than they are to kill a police officer (58%).

Black people are less likely to be fatally shot by police (26%) than they are to feloniously kill a police officer (39.1%).