Records released by California Attorney General Kamala Harris show that over the past 10 years, black men have been killed by police in the state at eight times the rate of other residents.
About 19 percent of the almost 1,000 homicides by law enforcement recorded between 2005 and 2014 were against black men, who only make up roughly 3 percent of California's population, The Guardian reports, and Harris said last week that the data points to "clear racial disparities." About 44 percent of people killed in police custody were Hispanic, and 30.2 percent were white. Hispanics made up 37.1 percent of California's population from 2005 to 2014, and whites made up 41.1 percent of the population. The figures show the death rate, or percentage of homicides per percentage of population, is 3.4 for blacks, 1.2 for Hispanics, and 0.7 for whites. Harris said the data also shows blacks accounted for 17 percent of total arrests and 25 percent of all deaths in custody.
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