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Police brutality. Police brutality is the use of excessive or unnecessary force by personnel affiliated with law enforcement duties when dealing with suspects and civilians. The term police brutality is usually applied in the context of causing physical harm to a person.
Disparate rates of Covid-19 infection and death, and the killings of Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others in 2020, exposed these violent inequalities so starkly that some...
Findings. Across all races and states in the USA, we estimate 30 800 deaths (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 30 300–31 300) from police violence between 1980 and 2018; this represents 17 100 more deaths (16 600–17 600) than reported by the NVSS.
Jun 1, 2020 · Science. Police brutality is a public health crisis. Protesting during a pandemic is a risk. But so is the status quo of police violence. By Brian Resnick @B_resnick brian@vox.com Updated Jun...
- Brian Resnick
Jan 6, 2023 · Read more. The preliminary 2022 total – a possible undercount as more cases are catalogued – marks 31 additional fatalities than the year before. In 2021, police killed 1,145 people; 1,152 in ...
- Sam Levin
Jun 19, 2020 · Across the United States, an arrest is made every 3 seconds; less than 5% of these are for serious violent crimes, according to the Vera Institute of Justice in Brooklyn, New York (see go.nature ...
May 29, 2021 · 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 ...
