Approximate maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) for Russia, Uruguay, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia in 2017:
171
Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) for Egypt and Thailand:
37
Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) for the United States in 2018:
17.42
Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) for U.S. Black women:
37.1
Number of U.S. police department policies that Campaign Zero reports could “establish meaningful restrictions on police use of force— especially deadly force—against civiliansâ€:
8
Number, out of the 91 departments reviewed, that had adopted all eight policies:
0
Average number of these policies that have been adopted:
3
Average reduction in killings by police departments that would result from the adoption of all eight policies:
54%3
Number of Black lives that reduction could have saved from 2013 to 2019:
1,0504
Percentage of time three police departments surveyed spent dealing with violent crime in 2020, as of June 19:
4%
Average percentage of time those police departments spent engaged in proactive policing (aggressive enforcement of minor crimes):
11.7%5
Average weekly decrease in civilian complaints of major crimes in New York during a seven-week work slowdown in late 2014 and early 2015:
4.2%6
Proportion of police stops in New York from 2014 to 2017 that targeted Black males ages 14–24:
24.9%
Proportion of New York population composed of Black males ages 14–24:
1.9%7
Percentage by which transgender people of color are more likely to experience physical violence at the hands of police, relative to cisgender White people:
600%8
Percentage of Black transgender people who reported being incarcerated due to their gender identity alone:
41%9
Percentage of transgender people killed in the U.S. from 2013 to 2019 who were Black women:
71%
Percentage of transgender people killed in 2019 who were Black women:
95%10
Sources: 1. 2. 3. 4. (WeTheProtestors Inc.) 5. of data from New Orleans, Sacramento, California; and Montgomery County, Maryland, police departments 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Miles Schneidermanis a freelance writer, podcaster, fact-checker, and media producer. His work can be found on www.mjschneiderman.com
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