On the face of it, systemic racism exists. It varies from state to state, from city to city, but it cannot be denied. The simplest evidence is the disproportionate rate at which bad things happen to people of color when compared to their representation in the population. This is true when considering poverty rates, incarceration rates, COVID-19 infection rates, and many other measures.

Below are the top 91 U.S. cities by population (in population size order) where at least one black person was killed by police from 2013-2019. For each city, you can see each black life lost to police in that timeframe, the relative share of the black population in that city, and the relative share of police killings of blacks in that city.

You can get further into the meanings of these and other related statistics. And you can debate the solutions to this issue. But you can't debate there is a problem. On the face of it, in black and white, this is clear.

The data for this visualization comes from Mapping Police Violence. Design and development by @billshander