MaverickNH
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This Lancet paper just started getting press late Thursday 30 Sept - USAToday below, NYT, WaPo, etc., likely to follow. And 91 authors? If they couldn’t find 100, it’s a fail.
"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. Over this time period, the age-standardised mortality rate due to police violence was highest in non-Hispanic Black people (0·69 [95% UI 0·67–0·71] per 100 000), followed by Hispanic people of any race (0·35 [0·34–0·36]), non-Hispanic White people (0·20 [0·19–0·20]), and non-Hispanic people of other races (0·15 [0·14– 0·16]). This variation is further affected by the decedent's sex and shows large discrepancies between states. Between 1980 and 2018, the NVSS did not report 55·5% (54·8–56·2) of all deaths attributable to police violence. When aggregating all races, the age-standardised mortality rate due to police violence was 0·25 (0·24–0·26) per 100 000 in the 1980s and 0·34 (0·34–0·35) per 100 000 in the 2010s, an increase of 38·4% (32·4–45·1) over the period of study."
There appears to be some evidence supporting the notion authorities attempt to suppress classification of Blacks when killed by police. Many will assume the killings were white cops killing innocent Blacks. The paper notes: "Stark inequities in the burden of police killings by race and ethnicity within the USA highlight the urgent need to address systemic racism within the US police force." No effort was made to study whether the police killings were justified or not - these days, justification of self-defense against an attacker is judged by the attacker’s race rather than their threat.
Given that riots, looting and burning frequently follow even justified shootings of Blacks threatening police and others with guns and knives, one can only wonder if authorities try to minimize such exposure for the sake of public order and undesirable consequence for police departments and the cops involved. Probably the wrong thing to do, but doing the job well and correctly can end careers, depending on public reaction. More so in recent years.
More than half of police killings in the US are unreported in government data, study finds
More than half of police killings in the U.S. are not reported in official government data, according to estimates in a new study released Thursday.
www.usatoday.com
"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. Over this time period, the age-standardised mortality rate due to police violence was highest in non-Hispanic Black people (0·69 [95% UI 0·67–0·71] per 100 000), followed by Hispanic people of any race (0·35 [0·34–0·36]), non-Hispanic White people (0·20 [0·19–0·20]), and non-Hispanic people of other races (0·15 [0·14– 0·16]). This variation is further affected by the decedent's sex and shows large discrepancies between states. Between 1980 and 2018, the NVSS did not report 55·5% (54·8–56·2) of all deaths attributable to police violence. When aggregating all races, the age-standardised mortality rate due to police violence was 0·25 (0·24–0·26) per 100 000 in the 1980s and 0·34 (0·34–0·35) per 100 000 in the 2010s, an increase of 38·4% (32·4–45·1) over the period of study."
There appears to be some evidence supporting the notion authorities attempt to suppress classification of Blacks when killed by police. Many will assume the killings were white cops killing innocent Blacks. The paper notes: "Stark inequities in the burden of police killings by race and ethnicity within the USA highlight the urgent need to address systemic racism within the US police force." No effort was made to study whether the police killings were justified or not - these days, justification of self-defense against an attacker is judged by the attacker’s race rather than their threat.
Given that riots, looting and burning frequently follow even justified shootings of Blacks threatening police and others with guns and knives, one can only wonder if authorities try to minimize such exposure for the sake of public order and undesirable consequence for police departments and the cops involved. Probably the wrong thing to do, but doing the job well and correctly can end careers, depending on public reaction. More so in recent years.
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