black ethnicity killed by the police in the state's capital reached nearly 70 percent of the total that year.
In the state of São Paulo, Brazil, the population in 2021 was composed by 63.7 percent of people who identified as white. However, this ethnic group only represented 31 percent of the civilians killed by security agents. Meanwhile, 69 percent of civilian deaths caused by the police were black people, who constituted a little more than a third of the state's population. Moreover, the share of people of Comparison between population composition and deaths by the police in the state of São Paulo in 2021, by ethnicity
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Rede de Observatórios da Segurança (Brazil). "Comparison between population composition and deaths by the police in the state of São Paulo in 2021, by ethnicity ." Chart. November 1, 2022. Statista. Accessed May 19, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290691/distribution-population-deaths-of-civilians-due-to-police-by-race-sao-paulo/
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Comparison between population composition and deaths by the police in the state of São Paulo in 2021, by ethnicity [Graph], Rede de Observatórios da Segurança (Brazil), November 1, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290691/distribution-population-deaths-of-civilians-due-to-police-by-race-sao-paulo/