Where Police Killings Often Meet With Silence: Rural America

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : White people make up the rural majority in nearly every state, and two-thirds of the people fatally shot by law enforcement in rural areas across the country were white, the data analysis shows; about 10% were Black.
38% : High-profile urban police shootings such as the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, have set off protests, prompted widespread calls for change and led to new policies in some law enforcement agencies.
38% : Working alone "affects the mindset of the officer on the scene," said Ralph Weisheit, a professor of criminal justice at Illinois State University.
32% : the Rand Corp. And in at least nine of the 33 rural Kentucky deaths during the period reviewed, troopers fatally shot someone who had fired at law enforcement.

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