First, I wanted to see what races were most frequently the victims of fatal police shootings.

As we can see, white individuals are the largest demographic shot. But this is not particularly surprising given that the majority of Americans are white. Let’s adjust our results for the relative population of the respective races.

Now we start to see the racial bias really shine through. But I was curious, the dataset does not give the income status of the victims, how would our results look if we were to adjust these results by the respective poverty rate of each race?

I’m not a political scientist, so I’m not sure how to interpret these preliminary results, but it seems the issue of police shootings may have an underlying economic issue that is deeper than just race.