Police shootings are also part of Americas gun problem
By German Lopez Research help by John Roman | Graphics by Javier Zarracina and Christina Animashaun at Vox
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/4/9/17205256/gun-violence-us-police-shootings?__twitter_impression=true
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Vox and John Roman, a senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, decided to put this to the test. Our results are suggestive: They indicate that weaker gun laws and higher rates of gun ownership do, at the very least, correlate with more killings by police officers (including shootings and other incidents of lethal force).
That suggests that while America has to address a whole host of issues to bring down its levels of police killings — from department-level policies to systemic racism — it also may be prudent to start thinking of police killings as inherently linked to America’s gun problem in general.
For this analysis, Roman and I analyzed data for police killings to see if there was any correlation with gun control laws and gun ownership rates across states.
Roman combed through the police killing data from the Police Violence Report, verifying it with other reports and the Washington Post’s database, to get an idea of how many police killings there were in 2017. We then compared police killing rates for each state with the state’s population (based on Census data), a composite score for state’s gun control laws (based on a National Rifle Association database), and gun ownership rates (based on a 2013 national survey).
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