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May 27, 2023 · In a 2021 study of emergency room data from hospitals in five states, researchers found a correlation between police killings of unarmed Black people and a rise in the number of depression-related ...
In 2020, the murder of George Floyd broadcast US police violence to the world. But police killings especially directed against Black men were not new. The US codes these as “deaths by legal intervention”, which comprise mainly police uses of force. In 2017, such deaths were in the top ten causes of death for Black men aged 15–34 years. And this ranking used a measure known to undercount ...
Jan 25, 2021 · Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black people nationwide. The majority of officers were white, and for at least 15 of them, the shootings weren't their first or last.
May 10, 2021 · Coalition Letter to UNHRC High Commissioner Calling for United Nations Inquiry into U.S. Police Violence. As you rightly stated in your update to the Council, we cannot let the urgency felt in the ...
Police brutality in the U.S. In recent years, particularly since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, police brutality has become a hot button issue in the United States.
In 2019, Kenyan police killed 122 people. Between October 2019 and January 2020, police in Iraq killed around 600 protesters. Between 2015 and 2018, over 500 people were fatally shot by the police in Jamaica, and over 300 shot and injured. Around 1000 people are killed by police in the USA every year.
Oct 2, 2021 · Before GBD 2019, the exclusive data source used for fatal police violence in GBD was the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), leading to underestimation of fatal police violence by 52·6–67·8% each year from 1980 to 2017. Movements against racially motivated violence have been long standing throughout the USA's history.
