Police killings have remained constant for years, at least since 2015 since the Washington Post began documenting all of the killings that take place. While white Americans take up a much higher percentage of America’s (and Michigan’s) total population, blacks are killed at a rate that vastly outpaces all others when accounting for population.

If the past several weeks have taught us anything, it would be that the senseless violence, seemingly directed at African Americans as well as Hispanic Americans, outweighs the potential for probability being the denominator. With these disproportionate killings it should be noted that black Americans are killed at a rate more than double that of white Americans.

The following representations of police shootings in Michigan portray that of a widespread issue.

This map is a depiction of all of the locations in Michigan that police shootings took place. As often times there were multiple shootings in one location, only a single marker was used.