A new study found that shootings and other uses of force by police officers are now the sixth-highest cause of death for males between the ages of 25 and 29.
Published 10:00 AM EDT Aug 9, 2019
The study, conducted by researchers at Rutgers University-Newark and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also found that black men are two-and-a-half times more likely to be killed by law enforcement over their lifetime than white men, and that African-American women, American Indian/Alaska native men and women, and Latino men also face higher odds of dying at police hands.
Life expectancy in the United States has fallen for two straight years, the first time this has occurred in more than half a century. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die prematurely every year. “What we lack in this country,” said the study’s lead author, Frank Edwards, an assistant professor at the university’s School of Criminal Justice, in a Rutgers press release, “are the solid estimates of police related deaths because there is no official database where this information is stored.”
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