From my explorations on mental illness cases I mentioned in my last post, here are my results:
Fatal Police Shootings Where The Victim Was Suffering A Mental Illness During The Altercation
Black Males – 16.49%
Black Females – 1.28%
White Males – 57.17%
White Females – 4.92%
Asian Males – 2.25%
Asian Females – 0.32%
Hispanic Males – 14.99%
Hispanic Females – 0.54%
White males are the most overrepresented group in the dataset, making up over half the population. But when you look proportionally to the population of the United States, Black and Hispanic males also become overrepresented.
Proportional Representation
Black Males
16.49%/6% x 100 = 274.8333 %
White Males
57.17%/30% = 190.5667%
Hispanic Males
14.99%/8% x 100 = 187.375 %
Method
To do this I used the sub setting function, combined with logical operations to capture a subset of each demographic