“Young black men are 21 times as likely as their white peers to be killed by police… The black boys killed can be disturbingly young. There were 41 teens 14 years or younger reported killed by police from 1980 to 2012. 27 of them were black."
“Across almost all counties, individuals who were unarmed and shot by police had a much higher probability of being black or hispanic than being white… [Those] shot by police had a higher median probability of being unarmed black individuals than being armed white[s]."
“Persons who identified as Black (or Black British) were over 3 times as likely to be arrested than those who identified themselves as White” and “In the year ending March 2019, those who identify as Black or Black British were 9.7 times as likely to be stopped."
“Health care systems … should take a clear position that the disproportionate killing of black (and indigenous and Latinx) people at the hands of police runs counter to their commitment to ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of patients."
Externalities of police killings on neighborhoods: “Women living in lethally surveilled neighborhoods [more police killings] face a greater risk of morbidity than comparable women living in less lethal neighborhoods.” (forthcoming @ERSjournal; @aasewell @DrKLG4Health)
"[Journalists'] recycled metaphors and modifiers such as jungle, predator, epidemic, infested, viral, and bred or breeding tell us that the places and people we are encountering are somehow bestial, pestilent, or otherwise uncivilized… conditions that ‘breed’ crime."
Finds significant under-reporting of “legal intervention homicides” in several national systems, but finds from available data that “the annual rate of police homicide (0.24/100‚000) varied 5-fold by state and 8-fold by race/ethnicity."
“Our analysis shows that the risk of being killed by police is jointly patterned by one’s race, gender, and age… Young men of color face exceptionally high risk of being killed by police. Inequalities in risk are pronounced throughout the life course."