Title: Shooting bias - Wikipedia
Headings: Shooting bias
Shooting bias
Contents
Key Questions in Literature
Benchmark
Resisting Arrest
Number of deaths
Problems with police reporting practices
Alternative database by The Guardian
Number of deaths
Likelihood of being shot with respect to race
Observational studies
Experimental studies
Factors that influence decision to shoot
List of empirically researched factors
Implicit racial bias
Location and context
Examples that showcase prejudices among police officers
Ways to reduce shooting bias
References

Content: Number of deaths
Problems with police reporting practices
Departments can voluntarily include justifiable homicides in the crime statistics of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, which means that a lot of departments don't provide data at all. Some cities haven't reported their data in years. This means that the official data doesn't accurately reflect the number of civilians that are shot by the police. Newspapers like The Guardian and The Washington Post have started compiling databases of fatal police shootings, revealing that in 2015 twice as many civilians had been fatally shot as the FBI's data suggested. An FBI working group has started working on a proposal for making the reports more accurate, but they would still rely on voluntary data and therefore wouldn't fix the main reporting issue. Alternative database by The Guardian
The database developed by The Guardian is currently the largest database on fatal shootings available. They gather data through police reports, monitoring of regional news, fact-checked witness statements and other crowdsourced police fatality databases. Number of deaths
In 2016, The Guardian counted 1093 people who were killed by the police in the United States. Out of these, 574 were white and 266 were black. 95 of the white victims were unarmed, while 42 of the black victims were unarmed.