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1. African-Americans are at greater risk of being killed by police, even though they are less likely to pose an objective threat to law enforcement, according to new data-driven research by Northeastern professor Matt Miller. Hispanics are also more likely to be victims of police shootings.
The Northeastern-Harvard study combs through shooting deaths by police across 27 states in 2014-15, based on details culled from police and medical-examiner reports by the relatively new National Violent Death Reporting System. Overall, close to 1,000 people are shot to death by police officers in the U.S. every year, according to a database maintained by the Washington Post.
“One in 15 firearm deaths is at the hands of police; among African-Americans it’s about one in 10,” says Miller, a professor of health sciences and epidemiology who has been researching injury and violence prevention for two decades. “Which isn’t to say that these shootings are all unjustified. But it sure makes you feel like we should try really hard to figure out how to use less lethal ways of arresting someone’s threatening behavior.”....
Source: https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/...in-police-shootings-how-many-are-preventable/
2. It is shocking that instead of being the protectors of the people, US police have ended up as murderers of the people, seemingly enjoying themselves like shooting targets in computer games. Worse, US police show their racist tendency by targeting specifically at African-Americans and Hispanics. America likes to impose sanctions on other countries for alleged human rights violations. It is high time for other countries to impose sanctions on the US for human rights violations and genocides against ethnic minorities.
The Northeastern-Harvard study combs through shooting deaths by police across 27 states in 2014-15, based on details culled from police and medical-examiner reports by the relatively new National Violent Death Reporting System. Overall, close to 1,000 people are shot to death by police officers in the U.S. every year, according to a database maintained by the Washington Post.
“One in 15 firearm deaths is at the hands of police; among African-Americans it’s about one in 10,” says Miller, a professor of health sciences and epidemiology who has been researching injury and violence prevention for two decades. “Which isn’t to say that these shootings are all unjustified. But it sure makes you feel like we should try really hard to figure out how to use less lethal ways of arresting someone’s threatening behavior.”....
Source: https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/...in-police-shootings-how-many-are-preventable/
2. It is shocking that instead of being the protectors of the people, US police have ended up as murderers of the people, seemingly enjoying themselves like shooting targets in computer games. Worse, US police show their racist tendency by targeting specifically at African-Americans and Hispanics. America likes to impose sanctions on other countries for alleged human rights violations. It is high time for other countries to impose sanctions on the US for human rights violations and genocides against ethnic minorities.
