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YES, get out while you can
- In 2014, 2254 Black men died from gun related violence.
- In 2006, 34.2% of Black Pregnant Women died from Maternal Mortality.
- 3,365 Police Departments arrest black people at a rate higher than any other racial group.
- Between 2005 and 2008, 80% of NYPD stops were of blacks and Latinos.
- Blacks are less than 13% of the U.S. population
- yet they are 31% of all fatal police shooting victims
- 39% of those killed by police even though they weren’t attacking.
- Latinos, 43% more likely to get frisked and 16% more likely to get searched in L.A.
- There are currently more black people locked up in prison than there were enslaved in 1850.
Sources:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/18/ferguson-black-arrest-rates/19043207/
Census Bureau Data
FBI Supplemental Homicide Report; see here for analysis
Department of Justice data from Los Angeles between July 2003 and June 2004.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/michelle-alexander-more-black-men-in-prison-slaves-1850_n_1007368.html
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