A study led by the University of Washington and Cornell University uses new data sources to determine the likelihood of dying at the hands of police.
Administrative affairs Arts and entertainment Buildings and grounds For UW employees Health and medicine Honors and awards Official notices Politics and government UW and the community - Every day in the United States, an average of nearly three men are killed by police. This accounts for 8 percent of all homicides with adult male victims - twice as many as identified in official statistics, according to a study by the University of Washington and Cornell University. The study, published Aug. 8 in the American Journal of Public Health, also shows that the risk of being killed by police, relative to white men, is 3.2 to 3.5 times higher for black men, and between 1.4 and 1.7 times higher for Latino men. Researchers determined these probabilities with six years' worth of data from Fatal Encounters , a source that collects information from journalists, activists and researchers through public records and media coverage. This method is more reliable than police departments' own reports, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. The study was led by Frank Edwards , a postdoctoral associate with Cornell's Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research and co-authored by Michael Esposito , who did this work as a graduate student in sociology at the University of Washington.
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