Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards · Aired Oct 8, 2026
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A white man is 20 times more likely to be wrongly shot by police than a black woman.
The finding
What the evidence shows
The 2019 study estimates lifetime risk of being killed by police from mortality records. It does not classify killings as wrongful or isolate shootings. Its headline roughly twenty-to-one contrast compares all men with all women, not white men with Black women. That study does not establish Dan's specific wrongful-shooting comparison; the exact requested ratio remains unresolved.
Read the supporting source · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗Quick answer & review status
Quick answer
Is it true that a white man is 20 times more likely to be wrongly shot by police than a black woman?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The 2019 study estimates lifetime risk of being killed by police from mortality records. It does not classify killings as wrongful or isolate shootings. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards, aired Oct 8, 2026, at 2:44:46. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, linked below.
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