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Oct 1, 2021 · Deaths involving police have been greatly undercounted in the United States, and African American people die in such encounters at 3.5 times the rate of whites, according to a new analysis by...
- Martin Kaste
Nov 25, 2014 · The analysis. There are a number of sources of official statistics on police killings in America. None of them is perfect, but all of them agree that black people are more likely to die at the...
Mar 28, 2024 · March 28, 2024, at 6:05 a.m. This Is How Reporters Documented 1,000 Deaths After Police Force That Isn't Supposed to Be Fatal. More. Patrick Sison. Some of the documents obtained during the Lethal ...
- The Ripple Effect
- Prenatal and Childhood Trauma
- Health Effects
- Policing Seen as Racism
One of the key studies illustrating this ripple effect of police killings on the mental health of Black Americans was published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2018. Boston University researchers surveyed 103,710 people in the U.S. to measure the relationship between police killings and Americans’ mental health. Among survey respondents, each ...
Black women experience acute fear that their children will be harmed by the police. Those who expressed beliefs that Black youth are at higher risk for having negative police experiences were 12 times more likelyto report symptoms of depression during their pregnancy than other women, according to one study from 2017. Depression during pregnancy ca...
Police killings and other negative encounters with police create a climate of fear in Black communities that takes a physical toll on residents. For example, aggressive policing can cause fear and excessive watchfulness among Black Americans that, at elevated levels, are associated with high blood pressure. A New York City-based research team found...
Many people in heavily policed neighborhoods see negative police encounters as forms of discrimination or racism – both of which are scientifically documented to worsen the health of Black people. “People understand that this system is filled with all sorts of inequality and injustice, and that implicit bias and just outright racism is embedded in ...
Apr 14, 2021 · New York. Kevin Parker. By Jill Terreri Ramos April 29, 2021. Police violence is a leading cause of death for young Black men, but it doesn’t top the list. If Your Time is short. A study...
Jul 21, 2020 · Studies have shown that “black people are three times more likely to be killed by police in the United States than white people. More unarmed black people were killed by police than unarmed white people last year,” despite the fact that only 14% of the population are black people. 7
May 29, 2021 · Mary T Bassett. Published: May 29, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736 (21)01153-3. A history of US police violence. 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.
