In 2021, the share of reported homicides committed by the police without information on the victim's ethnicity reached 100 percent in the state of Maranhão. This means that in no case of a civilian's death due to police intervention in this state was the ethnicity disclosed. On the other hand, the state of Pernambuco had no case in which the ethnicity was not identified. Furthermore, black was the ethnicity with the highest number of killings committed by the police.
Share of death cases due to police interventions without race information in Brazil in 2021, by state
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Rede de Observatórios da Segurança (Brazil). (November 14, 2022). Share of death cases due to police interventions without race information in Brazil in 2021, by state [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290251/share-deaths-by-police-without-race-information-by-state-brazil/
Rede de Observatórios da Segurança (Brazil). "Share of death cases due to police interventions without race information in Brazil in 2021, by state." Chart. November 14, 2022. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290251/share-deaths-by-police-without-race-information-by-state-brazil/
Rede de Observatórios da Segurança (Brazil). (2022). Share of death cases due to police interventions without race information in Brazil in 2021, by state. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290251/share-deaths-by-police-without-race-information-by-state-brazil/
Rede de Observatórios da Segurança (Brazil). "Share of Death Cases Due to Police Interventions without Race Information in Brazil in 2021, by State." Statista, Statista Inc., 14 Nov 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290251/share-deaths-by-police-without-race-information-by-state-brazil/
Rede de Observatórios da Segurança (Brazil), Share of death cases due to police interventions without race information in Brazil in 2021, by state Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290251/share-deaths-by-police-without-race-information-by-state-brazil/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Share of death cases due to police interventions without race information in Brazil in 2021, by state [Graph], Rede de Observatórios da Segurança (Brazil), November 14, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290251/share-deaths-by-police-without-race-information-by-state-brazil/
