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He argued: "If we recognize that using the police to respond to a problem comes with a significant risk of death, it encourages us to think about solutions to problems like mental health and substance abuse that do not rely on police.

Policing is contributing to early death both through the use of fatal force, and through aggressive tactics that have been found to have severe negative effects on the physical and mental health of people of color who live in over-policed communities. Study co-author Frank Edwards, assistant professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, told Newsweek: "Police violence should be taken seriously as a public health issue. A study has revealed police violence is one of the biggest killers of young men in the U.S. killed more people than other advanced industrial democracies, the authors said citing past research.Ī stock image of a policeman in uniform. It is already known that police officers in the U.S. The figures include shootings as well as deaths involving Tasers, and the use of force such as restraint. The researchers looked at data from the National Vital Statistics System's mortality files and Fatal Encounters (FE) database managed by journalists which cites public records and news coverage. Over the course of their lives, men were found to have a 1 in 2,000 chance of being killed by a police officer in the U.S., falling to 1 in 33,000 for women. for men aged between 25 and 29, after accidents including overdoses and traffic fatalities suicide homicides heart disease and cancer.

That includes the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and boys like Tamir Rice, which were protested against by members of the Black Lives Matter movement.ĭeaths linked to police violence were the sixth biggest killer in the the U.S. However, Latina women and Asian/Pacific Islanders are less likely to be killed than their white counterparts.īetween 2013 to 2017, 11,456 fatal encounters with police and members of the public were reported.

And black women American Indian and Alaskan Native men and Latino men are at 1.4 times greater risk of being killed by police force than their white peers. Police force is the sixth leading cause of death among young men, according to researchers who found black men are 2.5 times more likely than white men to be victims of this form of violence.Īmerican Indian and Alaskan Native women are 1.5 times more likely to be killed than white women, according to a study published in the journal PNAS.