Rate of police homicide by county

In both urban and rural counties, there are more police homicides per 100,000 black people per year than there are per 100,000 white or Latino people.

Black

Latino

White

0.5

1.5

2.5

Large central metro (pop. > 1 million)

Large fringe metro (suburban, pop. > 1 million)

Medium metro (pop. between 250k and 1 million)

Small metro (pop. below 250k)

Micropolitan (pop. between 10k and 50k)

Noncore (pop. below 10k)

See the Centers for Disease Control website for more details on county classification.