Interesting analysis. As a counterpoint to the headline that might be little fear-inducing, my first reaction when reading it was: only so little? Things must be bad. I mean: the perfect situation is when there are no homicides at all. But in a little less perfect imaginary world, in which bad people never get the chance to hurt innocents because police stops it, some bad people might still go down resisting arrest,…
Statistics are funny this way. I know what you are arguing but it really is a distraction from what is a very serious issue in America.
If we want to talk about the serious issue in America, let's talk about the number of unjustified homicides committed by police versus by others. I and most people don't care one shred about situations where a criminal is pointing a gun at another person and gets shot, that's exactly what should happen, and in many or most police shootings that's the way it goes down. Those make up a big part of the number in this article.
FWIW I'm not disagreeing that abuses by police are a serious problem in America, I think they are, and we need to do something about that, and it goes much deeper than just when they kill. Using shoddy numbers to promote awareness is counterproductive, though, because anyone who doesn't already agree with the conclusion will immediately see what's wrong with the argument, and dig their heels in deeper. There are enough real statistics to talk about (BLM has done a great job promoting those, so I won't dig them up here) that we don't need to resort to misleading linkbait ones.