Where I live (Denmark) very very near zero. A burglar (disregarding color), breaking into a rich mans house would also be near zero risk of getting shot by police.
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Sigh. Why the hell do I live in the wild fucking West?
Stand your ground, 3 times and you're out, non livable wages, enormous wealth disparity, racism, death penalty.
All these feed violence, and all these are extreme right wing policies.
I work in 911 dispatch, and we have some really rich towns in the county I work for
And I have one story that makes me think it's at least something that's on their minds
I got a call from one of those neighborhoods for a breaking and entering. The caller had been out of the house and came home to find that someone had broken in while they were gone.
I'm gathering all of the information, and without me prompting he starts giving me his description - 6ft-whatever black man, wearing blah blah blah, and that he'll be waiting by the front door etc.
And it just felt very clear to me that he knows unless he is very upfront about that, that when the cops get there, there's a really damn good chance that they're immediately going to assume he's a suspect and not the homeowner.
Googled him later, former NBA player, I don't follow sports but apparently he was kind of a big deal when he was playing. Not sure what his net worth is, but houses in that neighborhood tend to sell for several million.
Probably the nicest caller I've ever gotten from that neighborhood, and with the best reason to call. Another guy nearby once got into a fight with an Amazon driver because he had the audacity to pull into his driveway.
As an aside, that is how B&Es happen. Unless it's your crazy ex or something looking to start shit with you, they're not breaking into your home while you're home, they want to take your shit and get the fuck out they don't want a confrontation with you. I admittedly work in an overall pretty safe area, but we do have some pretty shitty towns as well as the mega rich, but after 7 years on the job I don't think I've ever gotten a call for an in-progress B&E while someone was home where they didn't know the person trying to break in (and usually there was a very specific, though usually not particularly good, reason they were trying to break in- they wanted to take back something they gave the person, were trying to retrieve their own belongings, they just wanted to fight or trash the place because they were mad at them, etc.)
And it's almost always in the super rich neighborhoods where houses are spaced far apart, the residents can afford to take long vacations far from home, and there's lots of valuable stuff to steal left unattended while they're gone. To a lesser extent it happens in the really shitty neighborhoods. It's almost unheard of in the rest of suburbia.
Victims getting shot by the police happens regularly to non-rich people in regular homes. I would say the risk is at least less than normal, because rich neighborhoods can afford better police services. However, it's still definitely not zero and is definitely much higher than for white people.
Edit: I appreciate that the comment below was removed, but for that person:
"In those instances in which the victim appeared to pose a minimal-or-less threat to police, based on the data we had, Black people were three times as likely to be killed,” Miller says. “That doesn’t mean the police didn’t feel threatened. But based on the reports that we were able to to look at, a very low level of threat was directed at the police. And in those specific cases, the numbers rose for Black people: They made up 36 percent of the deaths.”
Depends on whether they're a famous athlete.
Is there a story I missed?
Athletes are more likely to be recognized than business owners or other wealthy individuals.
Oscar Pistorius
I'm the US the millionaire status really doesn't change things.
I think it already happened. But I can't find (can't be bothered to look up) any articles. In the meantime, check out the Tulsa Massacre.
Very little