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This data which was pointed here is not correlate well with what you tell: "Police killings are one of the leading causes of death for young men in the United S

This data which was pointed here is not correlate well with what you tell: "Police killings are one of the leading causes of death for young men in the United States.[5] A study by Esposito, Lee, Edwards predicts that 1 in 2,000 men and 1 in 33,000 women die as a result of police use of deadly force.[5] The same study predicts the risk is highest for black men, as approximately 1 in 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by police" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_deadly_force_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_deadly_force_in_...

lazyjones 6y ago
This study seems very bad and polarizing. "One of the leading causes" is already weasel-wording (one of the ... how many? 100 leading causes?) and "young men" is also a rather unspecific limitation to the most violent/criminal demographic. Homicides aren't even in the top 10 leading (overall) causes of death in the USA, nr. 10 is suicide with > 40.000 per year while deadly force from police is 1/40th of that.
- catalogia 6y ago
  To be fair, homicides account for 14.7% of fatalities of male minors, which is significant (about twice as likely as cancer for that age range.) However only a small percentage of those homicides involve cops.. https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2017/all-races-origins/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2017/all-races-ori...