Did you know that unarmed Black citizens in the U.S. are fatally shot by police at a rate that is 4.5 times higher than for Whites? Find out which states have the highest & lowest rates of police shootings of unarmed Black individuals and which states have the highest & lowest rates of structural racism. Are these two things correlated? The show ends with 10 recommendations for reducing police violence in the future.

Here are some useful websites pertaining to this topic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0027968417303206 and https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ and www.joincampaignzero.org/

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