One Map Shows How Many People Police Have Killed So Far This Year in Every State

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Is the map adjusted to show the relative scale to account for population differences between each state?

That would be far more informative and revealing than just raw counts.

That's addressed in the article but it isn't on the map.

This map was designed to cause outrage, not to inform.

People should get outraged when presented with outrageous information.

Still, this would probably be more appropriate for HN if it showed interesting statistical information like police violence per capita, violence against minorities normalized by population, etc., and presented it with a flashy interactive javascript chart library.

It's easy to make information outrageous if you're willing to be misleading with it.

> interesting statistical information like police violence per capita,

Or maybe the violent crime rate in general?

> violence against minorities normalized by population

What about violence by minorities, or would that information be racist?

We give police the job of dealing with the most violent members of society, perhaps we should figure out to what extent they're just doing their job.

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