By contrast, black males are particularly far above the line, indicating that they’re fatally shot by police much more often than you’d expect based on their numbers in the population.
So, what are the other variables?
Yes. It is who is breaking the law violently at disproportionate rates and ending up at the wrong end of a gun.
It’s worth the read. From the article:
“Could there be another explanation – one that explains all the data, not just some of it? Yes: differences in violent criminality.
The chart below plots fatal police shootings against murders for the eight demographic groups. Murders is the total number of murders committed by each group between 2015 and 2020. Which brings me to the reason Hispanics were not included: the FBI treats Hispanic ethnicity as a separate variable that may overlap with race.”