Pt1:

As a followup to “Homicide, Deaths, and Firearms. Oh my!” (link above), here are the legal intervention deaths in 2013.

The CDC defines legal intervention as follows:

“when a decedent is killed by a police officer or other peace officer (a person with specified legal authority to use deadly force), including military police, acting in the line of duty. This category excludes legal executions.” (CDC website, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6010a1.htm)

Well, turns out that at least in 2013, people have a reason to feel that Blacks are dying at the hands of legal intervention more often than other groups. One could argue why that is the case, but it is occurring more than double the average rate. It occurs more than 2.4 times the rate if you exclude Blacks.

Take a look at the data here:

And here: