Statistics
How often does police brutality occur? How many people does it affect? What kind of people does it affect? Who is doing something to change it and who isn't? These statistics and information uncover facts that help answer questions such as this. Questions asking about subjects like racial and cultural bias, age, and what areas, all relating back to how they factor into police brutality.
- In the first half of 2016, documents show that the LAPD has not followed any of the 97 allegations of racial profiling.
- This also goes on in cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Baltimore, Washington, D.C, and Seattle.
- San Diego, San Jose, and Washington, D.C are the only departments to give punishment to officers that racially profile.
- 60 percent of black people in LA find that the LAPD does not treat people of all races and cultures fairly.
- Black people have been estimated as about 40% of the unarmed victims.
- 98% of these events followed with the officer not receiving any sort of punishment.
- In the most serious cases of police using lethal force there appears to be no racial or ethnic bias from the police.