1. The Washington Post reports that 715 people have been shot and killed by cops. Going by the Guardian's count, Native Americans and black people are being killed at the highest rates in the United States. 194 Black Americans have been killed by police so far this year, at a rate of 4.86 deaths per million.
2. Key Findings: Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week. (See which police departments were responsible for these deaths) Nearly 1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed, though the actual number is likely higher due to underreporting 37% of unarmed people killed by police were black in 2015 despite black people being only 13% of the U.S. population Unarmed black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015 Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer(s) being charged with a crime, and only 2 of these deaths (Matthew Ajibade and Eric Harris) resulted in convictions of officers involved. Only 1 of 2 officers convicted for their involvement in Matthew Ajibade's death received jail time. He was sentenced to 1 year in jail and allowed to serve this time exclusively on weekends. Deputy Bates, who killed Eric Harris, will be sentenced May 31.
Which has been collecting data and public records on police shootings throughout the country since last year, reported 325 white people and 111 Hispanics have been shot and killed by police so far in 2016. Of the 708 deaths reported, the races of 27 of those kills were described as other, and the races of 72 of the deceased are still unknown. The majority of the police shootings have been of men, which account for 679 of the deaths reported.
With three months of the year yet to go, the latest stats hint that police-shootings are on the rise compared to previous years. Last year ended with 494 killings of white people and 172 Hispanics. Sixty-six of the police shootings were of people of undetermined race or identified as other. Some 948 of the police shootings were of men. Of the police shootings reported in 2015, no officers were convicted of murder.