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well the concept of "race" is silly and ive never seen anyone define it 100%. i think its fine for statistics and such,but shouldnt be used anywhere else. first time i heard about the idea was in history class , about hitler and his race theory.....i think that tells something already

Looks like a random walk done with Matplotlib

The visualization is imo ineffective because I'm not sure there is anything too surprising that's related on the horizontal (time) axis, which is given prominence. If the racial disparity in this metric is what is of interest to people (which it almost certainly is), then as it does not vary significantly by time -- or at least, a variation that's somehow important to point out is not made obvious -- any more effective representation would not show time on an axis.

(The staggering of the Native American line is almost certainly an artifact of a small N, particularly compared to the other race segments. The confirmation would be to see whether or how those dramatic rises and falls track any other statistics in that population or areas.)

The WaPo dataset is used in a ton of criminology and other social science research papers devising metrics to shed some light on police shooting as a phenomenon. If you're interested in doing more visualizations on this topic, poke around Google Scholar and see what they've come up with in terms of interesting statistics.

(As this is a data visualization sub, I'm commenting on the visualization and providing feedback. The criminology research on this is vast and complex -- pointing out that one metric doesn't illuminate the problem or represent everything is not particularly useful.)

Use the database made for the people from the people. Its called fatal force.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

I'll go there. My ex-wife worked without a license for a long time and bribed a school to forge hours. That way she could go straight to the test and wouldn't have to do the six months and thousands of dollars.

She worked for various businesses in various states. They all tolerated this as well as other stuff like working without a green card and keeping multiple sets of books in order to cheat taxes. Business owners themselves would routinely cut corners with regard to hygiene. They occasionally got caught but the fines were a slap on the wrist that did not prevent the behavior. Businesses being closed for health or occupational violations were very rare.

In short, it was all a farce.

What I'd have preferred to see is less onerous schooling for law-abiding people and better and stricter enforcement all around. Registration fees could be higher in order for better enforcement to exist, and in such a way they would be able to chase bad actors out of the market as well as protect consumers.

As someone who has a very different occupational license, I would also complain that the people who write licensing tests are themselves unlicensed. If they are going to turn my licensing process into a guessing game about whether I should answer the words on paper or the thoughts that are inferred to be going on in their heads, then the process is broken. Let me assure you: it's very broken.

True, that's certainly not the only factor.

This is meaningless since the vast majority of non Hispanic people just consider us white.

What the hell map projection is that?

Ya you have a 15-30% reduction in fuel mileage to begin with

The lack of nuclear on this is shocking.

It's not just that. We also mechanize and process the shit out of everything in large part because labor is expensive. Where labor is cheap, miraculously vegetables are typically less expensive than processed food.

We are also very used to eating comparatively giant portion sizes of meat and not very much offal. The developing world knows how to take tough meat, use it sparingly to maximal effect, and cook it well.

I'm always curious about the definition used for Latino or Hispanic. Is it a language group of people who speak Spanish as their first language? Is it an immigration group based on a person's or an ancestor's country of origin? If the ancestor's country of origin, how far back? What level of inter-mixing removes the Latino label? Is it like Native Americans? Where it takes between 1/4 and 1/16 (depending on the tribe) bloodline to be a tribal member.

It is especially problematic combined with Asian-American, which clearly is based on area of origin regardless of race (people of Chinese, Iraqi, Indian and Russian descent are all Asian-American), and Black which is purely a race based term. African-American (which would include non-Black people of Arab and Berber descent) would be analogous to Asian and Native American.

It is a pretty chart, but without well defined categories, it doesn't really convey good information.

it is even questionable within corn-producing areas, if memory serves. there are a lot of energy inputs just to grow a crop, then you have the energy of converting it to ethanol.

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I admit, I thought those numbers would be lower. Even 2022, there was actually about 1 day a month when cops didn't kill anyone across the whole USA? I seriously thought it would be a string of zeroes.

Not (totally) because of, let's call it "policing issues", but simply because the US is a very large population country with its share of both criminals and cops, and an abundant supply of deadly weapons.

That it is *NOT* just 0, 0, 0, 0, 0... is, in itself, pretty interesting.

It would be neat to see this side-by-side with, say, the EU which is similar in area and population to the USA. As an isolated thing, it doesn't say much. There's not enough depth in time to draw many conclusions. There's no breakdown of who was killed, or what the reasoning was, both of which could also lead to conclusions. If it was compared against a similar landmass+population, *that* comparison might lead to conclusions.

As it is, it's interesting... like the future answer to a trivia question somewhere.

Now keep in mind that men make up about 95% of all police shooting victims. We should have a movement to protect men from police, too.

This just in-- people who speed more get more tickets.

But that wouldn't push the proper agenda.

One comment , as the changes are step change at elections, I'd of graphed it that way , either a stepped line or bar

“But why?” Should be the question then

From our newsletter 🗞️:

This year, there are 54 Hispanic representatives between the House and Senate, almost three times the amount back in 2001, with Hispanics now accounting for 11% of all members of Congress.

As Pew Research pointed out, the percentage is still lower than the population of Hispanics in the country — 19%. But make no mistake; there's been extraordinary progress in this demographic's representation.

In 2001, the US's share of Hispanics or Latinos was 12.5%, while their representation in Congress was a meager 3.5%. And Black members in Congress prove that reaching full representation is possible; their 13% share is roughly equal to the US's Black population share.

Source: Pew

Tools: Rawgraphs, Affinity designer

Good! We need more of us to proportionately represent our US population.

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meaningless activism when it's just per population