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Police Brutality

Introduction Police violence is among the cause of death to young men and women in the United States. Statistics shows that 1 in 1000 black men are at risk of being killed by police. Black women and men and American Indian and Alaska Native women and men are significantly more likely than white women and men to be killed by police. Latino men are also more likely to be killed by police than are white men.

Research Question

• How can the extent of police brutality be measured?

Hypothesis

IV: Organizational characteristics of police departments promote the use of excessive force against minorities.

DV: Spatially segregated minority populations are the primary targets of coercive control

Data/Method

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Narrative or Case Study

• Most victims of police brutality fall between the ages of 25 and 30 years

• A big number of victims are males • The victims are majorly the minority group in

the US

Results/Conclusion

Take Action or Suggestion

• The absence of authoritative official data is a key challenge in reducing police violence. The Bureau of Justice Statistics should renew efforts to develop comprehensive systems to track officer-involved deaths.

• Both the public interest and social science are served by increasing transparency with regard to police use of force. Using such data, the research community has made strides in identifying officers most at risk of being involved in cases of excessive force and system failures that result in civilian deaths

Works Cited

• R;, Alang S;McAlpine D;McCreedy E;Hardeman. “Police Brutality and Black Health: Setting the Agenda for Public Health Scholars.” American Journal of Public Health, U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28323470/

• AC;, Bor J;Venkataramani AS;Williams DR;Tsai. “Police Killings and Their Spillover Effects on the Mental Health of Black Americans: a Population-Based, Quasi-Experimental Study.” Lancet (London, England), U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29937193/.

• The results outline the estimates of lifetime risk of being killed by police use of force by race and sex, using data from 2013 to 2018 (Alang, S., et al., 2017). We estimate that over the life course, at levels of risk similar to those observed between 2013 and 2018, about 52 (90% uncertainty interval) of every 100,000 men and boys in the United States will be killed by police use of force over the life course, and about 3 of every 100,000 women and girls will be killed by police over the life course.

• The results support my hypothesis because it gives accurate conclusion that most victims are the minority community in the US.

• Police brutality is the unwarranted or excessive and often illegal use of force against civilians by U.S. police officers.

• Forms of police brutality have ranged from assault and battery to mayhem, torture, and murder. Some broader definitions of police brutality also encompass harassment, intimidation, and verbal abuse, among other forms of mistreatment.

• Our analysis relies on a combination of official and unofficial sources of mortality data: FE and the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). FE collects data on all deaths involving police through systematic searches of online news coverage, public records, and social media..