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Graph showing that police use or threaten to use nonfatal force disproportionately on Black, Other and Hispanic people

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics' Contacts Between Police and the Public, 2020, Table 3, analyzed by the Prison Policy Initiative. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in New data: Police use of force rising for Black, female, and older people; racial bias persists.

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