Police involved deaths - a closer look

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www.reuters.com/article/us-health-race-police-deaths-idUSKBN1KL2M4


Going to have to copy text after a reboot. Short version, about 1,028 deaths a year and involvement in 8% of all US adult male homicides.

Study period 2012-2018.

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Black men are about 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police over the life course than are white men. Black women are about 1.4 times more likely to be killed by police than are white women.


Police violence is a leading cause of death for young men in the United States. Over the life course, about 1 in every 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by police. Risk of being killed by police peaks between the ages of 20 y and 35 y for men and women and for all racial and ethnic groups.

www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

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I thought this was going to be more useful, but it is a single offender/single victim table from 2018. May have no use in trying to analyze police involved deaths to total deaths, but I like the attention to detail and breakdowns, so I am parking it here.


ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls

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Tables from link in post#1

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