If you ever find yourself in the United States of America, you might end up getting shot by a police officer.

It doesnt matter if you live in what you consider a safe place: Police shootings arent correlated with a citys violent crime rate , and can happen anywhere from Honolulu to Oklahoma City to Washington, D.C.

After the recent police killings of Terence Crutcher and Keith Lamont Scott , following on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile , among others, we thought wed offer a quick rundown on how to reduce your chances of being shot by police.

Heres our primer, in two easy steps.

1. Dont Be Black

The Washington Post calculated that police shot and killed 990 people in the United States in 2015, or about one person every eight or nine hours . Those fatal shootings surpassed our worst years of lynchings (161 African Americans were lynched in 1892) and capital punishment. This year, were on track to hit or surpass 2015s number, with 509 shooting deaths at the hands of police as of this writing.

These police shootings disproportionately affect black men. The Washington Posts review found that of the unarmed men shot and killed by police last year, 40 percent were black even though black men only make up 6 percent of the population. The Guardian, also looking at 2015 data, found that young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers.

The Washington Post reports that [i]n the majority of cases in which police shot and killed a person who had attacked someone with a weapon or brandished a gun, the person who was shot was white. But a hugely disproportionate number 3 in 5 of those killed after exhibiting less threatening behavior were black or Hispanic. The paper added that one-fourth of those killed were mentally ill or experiencing an emotional crisis.

Every story about police violence brings with it a wave of people pointing to stats about black people committing more crime than white people but the real story has many more layers . FBI statistics suggest that African-Americans are more likely to be convicted of violent crimes , but black people are disproportionally arrested, convicted and sentenced across the country. One survey found that half of African-Americans respondents, including 6 in 10 black men, said they personally had been treated unfairly by police because of their race, compared with 3 percent of whites. Theres also a proven track record of black Americans being punished more harshly for the same crimes as their white counterparts.

2. Consider Moving To Another Country

More people died at the hands of cops in America in the first 24 days of last year than in the last 24 years in England and Wales. Thats just one example .

Whether its due to our affinity for guns , our fear that everyone around us has them or a lack of training among police officers, many Americans arent surprised anymore to see gun violence between officers and civilians.

In many other democratic, developed nations, violent confrontations between citizens and law enforcement officers pan out a little differently.

Just a month after last years terrorist attacks in Paris, police officers in London were faced with a knife-wielding suspect who was threatening to kill them. The suspect was asked to put his weapon down, then hit with a Taser and subdued. That same week, a similar incident took place in San Francisco, but the suspects fate was not the same:

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