Racial Bias Worse In Police Killings Of Older, Mentally Ill, Unarmed Men

The widely reported deaths of Michael Brown and Philando Castile reflect a grim truth in this country: According to data collected by The Washington Post, around 1,000 people are shot and killed by the police in the U.S. each year, and Black men are more than twice as likely to be victims as white men.

These inequities become...