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“This finding comports with prior LIH [“Legal Intervention Homicide” by police] research that finds that black Americans are not only disproportionately likely to be killed by law enforcement but are disproportionately unlikely to present an objective threat of deadly force”

A Typology of Civilians Shot and Killed by US Police: A Latent Class Analysis of Firearm Legal Intervention Homicide in the 2014–2015 National Violent Death Reporting System

Journal of Urban Health

Wertz, Joseph / Azrael, Deborah / Berrigan, John / Barber, Catherine / Nelson, Eliot / Hemenway, David / Salhi, Carmel / Miller, Matthew

Vol. 97 Issue 3, pp. 317–328, 2020

10.1007/s11524-020-00430-0

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