Examining the Magnitude of American Police Killings Beyond a Racial Lens

The 3 reasons why American police kill 1,000 civilians every year

J.C. Peters
9 min readNov 23, 2020

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Left-Leaning media contend that police killings are the result of systemic racism. But however powerful the anecdotal evidence might seem, this view is not supported by empirical data.

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J.C. Peters
Dialogue & Discourse

Author of History That Changed the World (Odyssea Publishing, 2017). Published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, on CNBC, The Hill, Quartz, and other media.