The article “Police spending linked to shorter lives for Black Americans” discusses a new study that argues increases police spending results in increases police killings and suicide of black males. The article can be accessed HERE and in the article there is a link to the academic article.
It is interesting that the study didn’t include violent crime as a factor in it’s analysis. It is possible that with the killing of 11,528 black males (2022 see graph below), illustrates the impact that the amount of violent crime in a community could effect deaths and suicides of Black men?
In 2022 police killed 1,201 people. Of the police killings 26% (about 312) of the killings were of black people (men and females).
My question is – In 2022 what was more dangerous to Black communities in contributing to suicide and deaths? Was it violent crime with 11,528 homicides of Black men or the police killings of 312 Black individuals? Homicide of Black men was 36.9 times greater than police killing Black persons.
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