Submitted by dr5c t3_y350kf in dataisbeautiful
TheMan5991 t1_is6uog4 wrote
Reply to comment by dr5c in Police Killings per Capita v Homicide Rate per Capita for Select OECD Countries [OC] by dr5c
It may not change the shape, but it is very misleading. You should use the same unit for both axes and just show the relative numbers. For example, rather than showing the US as 5/100k murders and 28/10M police killings, it would be more sincere to show 5/100k murders and 0.28/100k police killings. Or 500/10M and 28/10M. Because when people are reading the graph as you have it, they are going to see 5 and 28 and think that police kill almost 6 times as many people as other criminals. In reality, they kill a little over 5% as much.
Also, doesn’t make any sense to choose 10M since many of those countries on the left side don’t even have 10M people.
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