Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980-2019: a network meta-regression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The burden of fatal police violence is an urgent public health crisis in the USA. Mounting evidence shows that deaths at the hands of the police disproportionately impact people of certain races and ethnicities, pointing to systemic racism in policing. Recent high-profile killings by police in the USA have prompted calls for more extensive and public data reporting on police violence. This study examines the presence and extent of under-reporting of police violence in US Government-run vital registration data, offers a method for correcting under-reporting in these datasets, and presents revised estimates of deaths due to police violence in the USA.

Methods

We compared data from the USA National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to three non-governmental, open-source

SUBMITTER: GBD 2019 Police Violence US Subnational Collaborators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8485022 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature