The police are killing you More Americans each year than official figures, a new survey Thursday concluded. The study compared government data with other records obtained by foreign agencies and found significant differences, showing that more than half of police killings were not reported by the government in the last 40 years. years.
Justice agencies and the media have been critical of US departments and local police over allegations of police brutality – a story that has caused much controversy. following a major death that affected Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, among many others. To date, there are no federal security checkpoints on the killings or why it probably happened. But a number of journalists and non-governmental organizations have done so created their own record-keeping operations, based on available information such as reports and public requests.
This new study was led by scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine, as part of a long-term study that attempts to quantify global prevalence on the underlying causes and causes of death, The Whole Burden of Disease Learn.
A classmate, published in the Lancet at On Thursday, he looked at information from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), which provides more comprehensive information on births and deaths that have been collected and stored by the government. These records also include deaths that are said to occur as a result of violence in which police measure or test corons. The team then compared the results with those taken from three police investigation teams, Dangerous Encounter, Recording Police Violence, and Counted.
The oldest work of these patrons, Fatal Encounters, dates back to the year 2000. However, researchers have found significant differences between official and anonymous statistics when they can be compared directly. Using these differences as their starting point, they say from 1980 to 2018, 55.5% of all deaths due to police violence were not officially registered. In a few groups, it is estimated that 17,100 of the 30,800 deaths occurred. In addition, it is estimated that there were 1,190 more people in 2019.
“Recent high-profile police killings of Black people have drawn worldwide attention to this urgent public health crisis, but the magnitude of this problem can’t be fully understood without reliable data. Inaccurately reporting or misclassifying these deaths further obscures the larger issue of systemic racism that is embedded in many US institutions, including law enforcement,” said co-lead author Fablina Sharara of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which maintains the GBD project, in a release from university.
In fact, as one study showed, black Americans were at a higher risk of police brutality than any other group in the study (3.5 times more than white Americans); they also had the chance of dying countless as police officers. But there was a slight difference between those who were legitimate and anonymous Americans of other races. Men were also more likely to be killed by police than women (30,600 are said to die in men and 1,420 die in women from 1980 to 2019).
C.Critics say that there is still a lack of knowledge about these things violent experiences from law enforcement, even with the advent of physical cameras. And while the police do not kill too many people, one study said to compare that police violence is the sixth most common cause of crime among boys over the age of 20. In particular, the study found that the number of police killings increased from the 1980s to 2010, although cases dropped immediately. Many other countries of their peers reports fewer police brutality against civilians.
The GBD project relied on NVSS’s record for its US police assassination plot. But the authors say they have already changed their most recent approach to 2019, which was published in October 2020, and will use it to move forward. In 2019, it is estimated that there were 293,000 people killed by police around the world. At the moment, he says the government’s claims cannot be trusted.
“Currently, the same government that is responsible for the violence is also in control. Open data is a reliable and reliable way to help inform information that can prevent police violence and save lives, ”said Sharara.