This is the data visualization and analysis of US police shooting data focused on minorities.
Questions:
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Does the possibility of being shot by US police vary by race?
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Does the possibility of being shot by US police vary by gender?
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Does the possibility of being shot by US police vary geographically?
1. Does the possibility of being shot by US police vary by race?
Graph 01 compares the racial proportion in US police shooting data with the natural proportion in the US (U.S. Census Bureau (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221)).
It’s clear that black people are twice likely to be shot than its natural proportion.
Hispanic and native people look almost the same in both data.
While white people constitute 60% of US population, it falls into 50% in this data. Asian people are even more significantly less in this data.
2. Does possibility of being shot by US police vary depending on one's gender?
Graph 02 shows that female are only 4.5% of this data.
According to the graph 03, there’s no big significant difference between female and male by their ages, but male of between twenty and forty years old are slightly more likely to be shot.
3. Does the possibility of being shot by US police vary depending on one's race?
Graph 04 shows that the situations of each race are different geographically.
In general, the possibility is higher in the south except for native people, which have a higher number of shootings in the west.
And there’re some states where people of any race have a higher number of shootings.